The KMT has increasingly come under scrutiny for corruption as of late. This is particularly the case, given that its candidate in the Taichung by-election to fill the seat formerly occupied by Chen Po-wei of the Taiwan Statebuilding Party was Yen Kuan-heng...
A memorial park to Chiang Ching-kuo in Taipei has become a contested political issue, due to the fact that the park memorializes a dictator. Plans for opening the park were condemned by the Transitional Justice Commission. Nevertheless, this did not prevent President Tsai Ing-wen from speaking at the park’s opening ceremonies, in an unusual move that provoked controversy among many members of the pan-Green camp...
46 domestic cases and 46 imported cases, along with zero deaths, were reported by the Central Epidemic Command Center at its daily press conference today...
39 Chinese warplanes intruded on Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone on Sunday, in the largest such intrusion by the Chinese air force since October. This was followed on Monday by an air intrusion by 13 aircraft...
13 domestic cases, 25 imported cases, and zero deaths were reported by the Central Epidemic Command Center today. This represents a second consecutive day in which there were around a dozen or so cases, following 82 domestic cases reported on January 22nd, and 52 domestic cases reported on January 23rd, after the development of clusters among migrant workers in the Farglory Free Trade Zone in Taoyuan...
15 domestic cases, 36 imported cases, and zero deaths were reported by the Central Epidemic Command Center today. Eight cases were in Kaohsiung, four cases in Yilan, and three cases in Taoyuan...
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.
