One domestic case and five imported cases were announced at the CECC daily press conference today. The one domestic case was not already in quarantine. One death was announced...
Four domestic cases and two imported cases were announced by the CECC at its daily press conference today. Two of these cases were already in quarantine. No deaths were announced...
A national controversy has broken out, following the euthanizing of 154 cats that were being smuggled into Taiwan on a fishing vessel. The cats, which included breeds such as American shorthair, British shorthair, Persian, Ragdoll, and Russian blue, were worth over 10 million NT. The cats were found in 62 cages on the vessel, which had a crew of five...
Clashes broke out between residents of Shezidao, also known as Shezi Island, and police last week on Wednesday. These clashes took place in context of the Taipei city government’s second stage review environmental impact assessment conducted on the prospect of development on the island. This led to not only fighting with the police, but clashes between residents of Shezidao in favor of development and those opposed to it. This may be one of the first times that fighting has broken out during a protest during the current COVID-19 outbreak that Taiwan is currently in the late stages of...
Six domestic cases and four imported cases were announced by the CECC at its daily press conference today. Two of these cases were already in quarantine. No deaths were announced. Three cases were in Taipei and one case each was reported in New Taipei, Taoyuan, and Yunlin. The case reported in Yunlin breaks a 62-day streak in which Yunlin reported no cases...
Two domestic cases and eight imported cases were announced at the CECC daily press conference today. None of these cases were already in quarantine. One death was announced. The current level two alert has been extended from August 24th to September 6th...
Six domestic cases and three imported cases were announced at the CECC’s daily press conference today. Two of these cases were already in quarantine. One death was announced...
Anger has broken out after New Taipei arrested and detained a migrant worker who was taking out the trash on the basis of suspicion of her being a “runaway” migrant worker...
One domestic case and five imported cases were reported at the CECC’s daily press conference today. This one case was reported in New Taipei and was not already in quarantine. Five deaths were also reported, which were all individuals with long-term conditions...
Over the past few days, much of the world has been fixed on the spectacle of the resurgent Taliban taking provincial capitals across Afghanistan, eventually sweeping the capital of Kabul. It may not be surprising that there has been a wave of discussion of how Taiwan relates to this series of events, if at all. Many of these responses have been sharply divided...
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.
