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...
Issues of identity within Taiwanese society have been raised recently with circulation of videos by citizen journalist Hung Su-chu harassing elderly waishengren in Kaohsiung...
Recent demonstrations in Hong Kong revolving around brands and products may indicate product brands have in some way become contested territory regarding issues of identity...
The debate over nuclear energy in Taiwan has heated up again as a result of controversy over possible restarts of the No. 1 reactor of the Jinshan nuclear power plant in New Taipei City...
With the recent agreement by the United States, South Korea, and Japan to step up trilateral cooperation in the event of threats by North Korea, is it that China is the real reason for closer ties?...
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.
