Over fifty pro-democracy politicians were arrested today in Hong Kong, in the largest set of arrests in an ongoing crackdown that has taken place across past weeks. The arrests effectively seek to wholly eliminate the pan-Democratic opposition...
COVID-19 prevention measures in Taiwan have been strengthened, following the first reported case of domestic COVID-19 transmission since April and the first imported case of a new strain of COVID-19 originally detected in the UK that many experts believe may be more infectious than the original strain...
On Christmas Day 2020, after much contention, the lifting of limits on American pork imports was passed by the Legislative Yuan, with KMT lawmakers vowing to continue to oppose pork imports, possibly by way of referendum. More broadly speaking, media coverage and political discussions around the issue of ractopamine and American pork imports to Taiwan have reached the point of absurdity in past weeks...
Anger from fishermen has broken out after plans by German energy company EnerVest to develop wind farms near the islets of Huaping, Mianhua, and Pengjia. Controversy regarding the issue follows a familiar dynamic in Taiwan...
New livery was unveiled for China Airlines cargo planes earlier this week. The change in the air carrier’s livery took place after a proposal was passed by the Legislative Yuan in July to redesign the livery of China Airlines planes. China Airlines is Taiwan’s national air carrier...
A factory fire in Taoyuan that broke out on Sunday killed a Filipino factory worker, after the worker sustained third-degree burns over 90% of his body...
Efforts by the European Union, specifically under its illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing regulations in 2015, have brought a sharp focus on the employment conditions on Taiwanese fishing vessels and the climate of illegality that enables unsustainable fishing and labor abuses. This has shone a harsh light on the labor exploitation of migrants working on fishing vessels with a connection to Taiwan...
Taiwan reported its first case of the local transmission of COVID-19 since April today, ending a streak of 253 days without domestic transmission of COVID-19 in Taiwan...
New Bloom interviewed Simon Cheng, the first Hong Kong national who was granted asylum in the UK, and a former worker of the UK’s Hong Kong consulate. Simon shared his experiences of exile life in London, his future plans, and what he has been through in seeking political asylum...
A draft bill by the Health Promotion Administration aims to remove the current requirement for women to have the consent of their partners before an abortion. Likewise, an online petition on a platform run by the National Development Council has been started to call for the lifting of the current requirement....
