The by-election to fill the legislative seat formerly occupied by Chiang Wan-an, for the Taipei City Constituency III, consisting of Zhongshan District and northern Songshan District, took place today. The results were a victory for Wang Hung-wei of the KMT, who was competing against Enoch Wu of the DPP...
An investigation into allegations of insider trading against Medigen Biotechnology Company executives could prove a sensitive matter for the Tsai administration going forward...
A document posted on the National Immigration Agency website, specifying regulations on the rights of Hongkongers in Taiwan has caused consternation after being reported on by BBC. Though the document was quickly removed website, the document suggests restrictions on basic freedoms for Hongkongers in Taiwan, including restriction of the freedom of speech, freedom of political participation, and restriction of political assembly...
A labor dispute late last month involving an illiterate cleaner working at online shopping outlet Books.com.tw, which mostly sells books, has attracted a great deal of public sympathy...
Ground workers for EVA Air, employed by the Eva Air affiliate, Evergreen Airline Services Corporation, are currently on strike. The strike has been ongoing today and yesterday...
The by-election to fill the seat formerly occupied by Taipei mayor-elect Chiang Wan-an has taken on an unusual significance with regard to some of the proposals made to date by candidates. For the by-election, the DPP is running Enoch Wu against Wang Hung-wei of the KMT...
China has again set records with drills directed at Taiwan, carrying out “strike drills” around Taiwan in the past week. This is in response to US president Joe Biden signing the Fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act into law. Part of the provisions of the law authorized 12 billion USD in loans for Taiwan to purchase arms across six years, between 2023 and 2027, with 2 billion USD per year...
President Tsai Ing-wen today announced the extension of the military draft to one year from the current four months at a press conference that began at 3:30 PM. This took place after a meeting between Tsai, the National Security Council, Vice President William Lai, Premier Su Tseng-chang, Minister of Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng, and members of the DPP legislative caucus earlier this month. The announcement was expected in advance, with details of the plan reported on earlier this afternoon...
FoxConn founder Terry Gou has recently begun publicly criticizing the Central Epidemic Command Center that coordinates Taiwan’s COVID-19 strategy over its apparent failure to purchase BioNTech vaccines. Instead, Taiwan is primarily depending on the next-generation Moderna bivalent vaccines for its next round of vaccinating the population against COVID-19...
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.
