28 domestic cases and three imported cases were announced at the CECC’s daily press conference today. 13 of these cases were already in quarantine. In the meantime, political controversy continues about Taipei's COVID-19 response...
Anthropogenic activities have drastically altered ecological systems that facilitate life support systems. A close impact assessment of the January 15th, 2021 Sulawesi earthquake demonstrates how human interactions with the environment have contributed to climate change in Indonesia. The 6.2 magnitude earthquake affected individuals, businesses, institutions, and the overall economy in the Majene district of West Sulawesi...
37 domestic cases, 2 imported cases were announced by the CECC at its daily press conference today. Though this is a new low in the number of cases, testing continues to be carried out for clusters at TAPMC, Huannan Market, and Hulin Street, all of which are located in Taipei. Likewise, it is known that today's statistics reflects some lag in reporting test results...
Demonstrations that have rocked Eswatini in past days are among the largest protests to take place in the African country in its 53 years of independence. That being said, they have scarcely been commented on in Taiwan, despite that Eswatini is one of Taiwan’s few remaining diplomatic countries—and despite the fact that such protests have strong parallels to Taiwan’s history of democratization...
76 domestic cases, four imported cases were announced by the Central Epidemic Command Center at its daily press conference today. 14 of these cases were already in quarantine. 48 cases were in Taipei, while there were 24 cases in New Taipei. There were three cases in Taoyuan and one case in Hsinchu City. 77.3% of cases to date have been released from quarantine...
In the forty years since Chen’s death, within Taiwan and in its diaspora, Chen has been remembered as a kind and courageous person, a brilliant scholar, a loving husband and father, and a martyr for Taiwan independence. And yet, percolating around the edges, were hints of more complicated narratives...
57 domestic cases and one imported case were reported at the Central Epidemic Command Center’s daily press conference today. However, there has been a sudden explosion of cases at the Huannan Market in Wanhua, with 41 cases reported after over 7,000 were tested, bringing the total number of cases linked to the market to 107. These were not included in today’s daily count, though contact tracing was scheduled to be completed by 5 PM...
For the latest installment of Radio New Bloom, Sheng Kao spoke with Chi Ta-wei, a teacher and scholar of queer literature at National Cheng Chi University. We speak with him about his introduction to Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and the recent English translation of his novel, The Membranes. This is the third episode of our current season...
47 domestic cases and three imported cases were reported at the CECC daily press conference today. 21 of the new cases were found while already in quarantine. 13 deaths were also announced, which is higher than in past days. The CECC also announced shifts in policy for PCR testing of inbound travelers today, among some other policy adjustments...
