Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen pardoned Indigenous hunter Tama Talum yesterday. This was Tsai’s first use of the presidential pardon during her two terms as president, as well as the seventh time that the pardon was used in ROC history...
Earlier this month, before the uptick in COVID-19 cases that has led to near-lockdown conditions in Taipei and New Taipei, 400 members of the Puyuma people protested outside of the Taitung county government building on May 7th against plans to develop a solar farm. In particular, protesters claim they were not adequately consulted before the county government went ahead with plans to build the solar farm, and that they were excluded from the decision-making process...
Indigenous activists and their supporters demonstrated outside of the Ministry of the Interior yesterday morning, calling for Indigenous name recognition...
New Bloom is re-launching our podcast, Radio New Bloom! This marks episode 13 and will be the first episode of the new season. Episode 13 of Radio New Bloom features an interview conducted by Nick Haggerty of the News Lens International with Singaporean political activist Roy Ngerng...
Migrant worker groups gathered outside of the Executive Yuan this morning to hold a small rally. Between thirty to fifty were in attendance. The rally began at 10 AM and lasted until just after 11 AM...
A recent legal case involving a series of online websites in which sex videos were uploaded without the consent of those filmed in them and used as a means of extortion raises severe questions about Taiwan’s justice system...
Uber Eats, Foodpanda, GOGOX, and LalaMove delivery workers demonstrated Tuesday in front of the Ministry of Labor, calling on delivery workers to form a nationwide delivery workers union. The union reportedly already has over one hundred members and it is anticipated that the union will be formally established within three months...
Ten pro-democracy activists were sentenced to jail earlier this week in Hong Kong in the latest action by China as part of a months-long political crackdown. The sentencing takes place on the basis of participating in unauthorized assemblies on August 18th and August 31st in 2018, with the possibility of further charges down the line...
A murder case in Pingtung last week has led to further calls to strengthen anti-stalking legislation in Taiwan. Namely, the suspected killing is far from the only recent case in memory in which a woman was killed by a man because of inaction taken against stalking, attempted kidnapping, or attempted rape...
