As part of a speech about efforts to modernize the State Department last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the formation of a new office that has the aim of ensuring that America or its allies win key positions in UN agencies...
Taiwanese Minister of Foreign Affairs is currently on a diplomatic visit traveling through Europe. Officially, Wu’s itinerary only includes visits to the Czech Republic and Slovakia. However, some reports suggest that he will also visit Brussels as part of a secret visit to meet with European Union officials...
The annual pride parade that takes place in Taiwan on October 30th took place primarily online this year, along with the third annual Trans March, which was also moved to livestream programming...
The Taoyuan Pilot's Union has called for pilots to have a three-day break between quarantine and long-haul flights, following the death of a China Airlines pilot on Monday in his home. The cause of death of the pilot, who was 61-years-old and from Venezuela, is still being investigated. There is particular scrutiny on whether he might have died due to COVID-19...
The Tsai administration's efforts at judicial reform came under criticism last month from civil society organizations, particularly regarding attempts to reign in judges and prosecutors unaccountable to the public...
Chen Po-wei of the Taiwan Statebuilding Party was recalled today. Chen, 36, popularly known by his nickname of “3Q”, represented the second electoral district in Taichung as the Statebuilding Party’s sole legislator...
US president Joe Biden again created confusion regarding the US position on Taiwan today during a town hall held by CNN. In response to a question about whether he would vow to protect Taiwan and what he would do to compete with China militarily, following Chinese tests of a hypersonic missile, Biden stated “Yes and yes"...
TTY Biopharm is currently under investigation for insider trading, with 26 company officials held by authorities, and close to thirty locations raided. Among those detained was Robbin Shih, the company’s general manager. Top executives were released on two to three million NT bail, with fifteen of those detained requiring bail...
DPP legislator Huang Kuo-shu announced that he would be withdrawing from the party and not pursuing reelection in 2024 earlier this week after the Liberty Times reported that he had served as an informant during the KMT during authoritarian times. According to the report, Huang was involved in spying on fellow students who were involved in political dissidence in university...
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.
