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...
The Central Epidemic Command Center, which coordinates Taiwan’s COVID-19 response, reported 82 domestic cases and 42 imported cases today, along with zero deaths. This is the highest number of cases this year...
The CECC, which coordinates Taiwan’s response to COVID-19, has announced a new requirement necessitating proof of vaccination for entry to bars, nightclubs, tea parlors with hostess services, and beauty parlors. This is in response to recent weeks that have seen cases return to the double digits, as well as a large number of imported cases...
The issue of food imports from Japan’s Fukushima prefecture is expected to become a contested issue for the Tsai administration in the near future. This takes place in the wake of a December 2020 referendum that saw the DPP victorious, with the DPP’s positions on all four referendum questions winning out over the KMT, in addition to the referendum failing to meet benchmarks to be binding. Some reports suggest that the DPP will next move to lift the ban...
Lin Zi-miao, the KMT magistrate of Yilan county, was detained by police and questioned for several hours last week as part of a corruption investigation. More than thirty were questioned as part of the investigation, with thirty locations raided by police...
Migrant workers rallied yesterday to demand the right to transfer jobs. Counts place the number of participants at over 400. The rally took the form of a march from the DPP's headquarters near Shandao Temple to the Ministry of Labor near the 228 Memorial Park...
The prospect of cooperation between Taiwan and Lithuania on semiconductors has been raised recently, as flagged by a Politico article regarding a 200 million USD investment plan from Taiwan...
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.
