Nine players from the Yulon Luxgen Dinos and one player from the Taiwan Beer Leopards have been lifetime banned from the game after a match-fixing scandal. In particular, the scandal stands to affect the credibility of the Super Basketball League (SBL) in a scandal that could affect the public credibility of the game going forward...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed American activist Diane Wilson, who is nearing day thirty of a water-only hunger strike against the actions of Taiwanese company, the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG). Pollution from a FPG subsidiary-owned steel mill in Vietnam led to fish die-offs in 2016 in what some have termed Vietnam's largest ecological disaster in history, affecting fishing villages along more than 200 kilometers of coast. Wilson is on hunger strike to call attention to Formosa's refusal to answer for the fish die-offs...
An estimated 500 local and international community attendees converged at Daan Park, Taipei for a solidarity march with Palestine called “Taipei Peace Rally” with the theme of “Ceasefire Now, End Apartheid” last Saturday afternoon, November 25, 2023...
Taiwanese social media has seen a wave of posts reacting to the possibility of opening up Taiwan to Indian workers. In particular, the posts are xenophobic in nature, framing Indians as rapists who would sexually assault Taiwanese women if they are allowed into Taiwan. This has led to online calls for a march against the planned opening up...
Today was the last day for candidates to register for the presidential election, with the deadline being 5:30 PM. After yesterday’s drama, involving a televised public spat between all of the major pan-Blue presidential candidates, each candidate seemed set to field a separate run, with hopes of a joint ticket scuppered...
The already convoluted saga of a prospective alliance between the TPP and KMT took a turn for the bizarre today. This took the form of a press conference that involved all of the pan-Blue presidential candidates–Hou You-yi of the KMT, Ko Wen-je of the TPP, and independent candidate Terry Gou–openly sparring with each other. Former president Ma Ying-jeou and KMT party chair Eric Chu were also present. The deadline for candidates to register for president is 5:30 PM tomorrow...
Members of the Bahuan community, who are Bunun Indigenous, demonstrated outside of National Taiwan University earlier this week. The demonstration led to some clashes with police, with a large number of police deployed for a relatively small number of protestors...
Union groups demonstrated in front of the Executive Yuan earlier this week over pensions, calling for an increase in the minimum contribution to pensions from employers. The groups included the Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions, the Taiwan Federation of Financial Unions, the Taipei City Confederation of Trade Unions, the Kaohsiung City Confederation of Trade Unions, the Taipower Union, the Taiwan High-Speed Rail Union, and the Taiwan Water Industry Union. This represents among Taiwan’s largest trade confederations, as well as a number of workers from state-owned enterprises...
Despite much expectation that the joint ticket between the TPP and KMT would be announced this morning, with it announced who would be the presidential candidate between TPP chair and presidential candidate Ko Wen-je and KMT candidate Han Kuo-yu at aa press conference scheduled for 10 AM, Ko Wen-je has now pulled out of the alliance. That being said, Ko stated that talks will continue between the two parties...
