The China Airlines strike began dramatically last night, with an occupation of Nanjing East Road in front of the Taipei branch headquarters of China Airlines by several thousand China Airlines workers...
Without reading between the lines, many recent news reports make it seem as though after the election victory of Tsai Ing-Wen, China would be seeking to marginalize Taiwan economically by “shutting off” trade to Taiwan...
On May 6th, New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Shawna Yang Ryan through Skype. Ryan is most recently the author of Green Island, which depicts Taiwan’s White Terror and authoritarian era...
The reappearance of abducted Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee and revelations of forced confessions of wrongdoing extracted from him by the Chinese government have rocked Hong Kong in recent days...
The Ko administration continues to be embattled regarding the longstanding Taipei Dome debacle, the latest chapter of which would be accusations of Ko asking city councillors to resign if they refused to submit to a polygraph test...
On May 9th in New York City, New Bloom interviewed LIMA Taiwan Indigenous Youth Working Group regarding their visit to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues...
Controversy has erupted after an upcoming planned trip by Ma Ying-Jeou to Hong Kong was cancelled when the Presidential Office refused to grant Ma approval to leave the country...
Brian Hioe is one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance journalist, as well as a translator. A New York native and Taiwanese-American, he has an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and graduated from New York University with majors in History, East Asian Studies, and English Literature. He was Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy from 2017 to 2018 and is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme.