DPP presidential candidate and current vice president Lai Ching-te has expressed support for vaccine manufacturer Medigen revealing the details of its contracts with the government...
The corporatization of the Taiwan Railways Administration, changing it from an agency of government into the state-owned enterprise of the Taiwan Railways Corporation, puts an end to a long-run labor struggle by workers. The struggle went on for many years, but the inability of workers to stop the corporatization reflects the weakness, in many ways, of Taiwanese labor...
One of KMT presidential candidate Hou You-yi’s campaign promises is to revive the Special Investigation Division of the Supreme Prosecutors Office. This has not been widely discussed, but could do with examination as an issue....
KMT vice presidential candidate Jaw Shaw-kong has come to dominate headlines lately. In particular, Jaw seems to have taken a more proactive role in the KMT’s campaigning than the actual KMT candidate, Hou You-yi...
The vice presidential debate took place this afternoon. This was the last of the debates held as part of the presidential campaign season, coming after three presidential policy platform presentations that are not formal debates on December 20th, December 26th, and December 28th, one vice presidential presidential policy platform presentation, and one presidential debate...
Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen gave a New Year’s address earlier today. This is the last New Year’s address of Tsai’s presidency, seeing as her second and final term will end later this year. Elections will take place on January 13th to decide who Taiwan’s next president will be...
Reports indicate that a Taiwanese member of I-Kuan Tao, a Daoist religious organization, was detained in China on charges of entering China under the auspices of tourism to spread the religion...
The only presidential debate of the election season took place today. This took place after three presidential policy presentations, which are not formal debates, but often amount to de facto debates. These took place on December 20th, December 26th, and December 28th...
The third and final presidential policy presentation took place on Thursday. This is the last of the three presidential policy platforms that will take place before the formal debates between presidential candidates...
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.
