83 domestic cases, 120 imported, and zero deaths were reported by the CECC today. This is the largest daily number of cases in Taiwan since June of last year...
1,500 Taiwan Railways Administration workers demonstrated on Wednesday against the corporatization of the Taiwan Railways. These were members of the Taiwan Railway Labor Union and other Taiwan Railways labor unions...
Vaccination rates have largely stalled in Taiwan at a time in which Taiwan debates if and whether to loosen COVID-19 measures. This would be in the interests of transitioning away from Taiwan’s current COVID-zero approach, so as to avoid Taiwan becoming disconnected from the international world at a time in which many countries are loosening their COVID-19 restrictions, something that would have a severe impact on Taiwan’s economy...
Civil society groups demonstrated on Friday, March 18th to call for the release of imprisoned Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che in China. The demonstration took place the night prior to the fifth anniversary of Lee’s detention, which took place after he crossed into China from Macau on March 19th, 2017...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je has again sought to attack the Tsai administration as attempting to sabotage his mayoral administration, this time regarding approval for the Taipei Dome. Ko most likely has his eyes on finishing the construction of the Taipei Dome during his tenure, in order that he can tout it as an accomplishment for future political endeavors...
A former Taiwan High Court judge has been impeached on conflict of interest charges in a case that points to a larger, structural issue in Taiwan. In particular, former judge Tseng Ping-shan faces impeachment due to contacts with Wong Maw-jang over a twenty-year period from 1997 to 2017, Wong being the chair of the Chia Her Group. Tseng served on the Taiwan High Court’s Tainan branch between 1997 and 2013...
The Supreme Court reversed a prior decision by the High Court last week, awarding damages to 222 former Radio Corporation of America workers for exposure to hazardous chemicals. As such, the case has been sent back to the High Court...
With the Transitional Justice Commission set to be dissolved in May, speculation has turned to whether the commission will be able to call for the removal of the 6.3-meter Chiang Kai-shek statue in the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial...
Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je and his Taiwan People’s Party have come under scrutiny regarding the use of Taipei city public funds for electoral campaigning. This takes place at the same time as much uncertainty about the political future of the TPP, and as election season approaches. Many TPP members serve as part of Ko’s Taipei mayoral administration...
The Indigenous occupation in the 228 Peace Memorial Park was dismantled by Taipei city authorities earlier today. The occupation had stood for over 1,800 days, close to five years...
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.
