On September 28th, New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Jerry Liu of the Social Democratic Party, who is running in the Shilin-Beitou area. This is part of New Bloom's ongoing series of interviews with independent city councilor candidates, as part of its special 2018 election coverage...
Concerns are on the rise that the unexpected popularity of Han Kuo-yu, the KMT’s candidate for Kaohsiung mayor in this year’s election, is the result of Chinese election interference...
A total of ten referendum questions are up for the vote in local elections at the end of this month, during which a nationwide referendum will also be held regarding these ten questions. Some confusion remains about how voters will tackle these questions...
The disqualification of a Taiwanese team, Sad Story, for the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice esports competition next year sets a negative precedent for not only future Taiwanese participation in esports, but sporting events more broadly...
On October 17th, New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Wu Zheng of the New Power Party, who is running in the Songshan-Xinyi area. This is part of New Bloom's ongoing series of interviews with independent city councilor candidates, as part of its special 2018 election coverage...
Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office representatives organized several panel discussions and tabled at the New York Comic-Con in New York City in early October this year, hoping to promote Taiwanese comics. However, promotion efforts showed many places for improvement...
Fears of a rapprochement between Japan and China in Taiwan have been exaggerated by the media. Namely, decades of enmity between Japan and China scarcely will fade overnight...
Polish media organization Idź Pod Prąd recently released a video declaring support of Taiwan and opposition to China. Unfortunately, while many in Taiwan have celebrated this as an international expression of support for Taiwan, they have failed to notice that this comes from a far-right wing Christian group that is anti-gay and has links to white supremacist groups...
