350.org, Greenpeace, and other environmental groups demonstrated on Saturday ahead of the upcoming COP28 summit. The demonstration aimed to call attention to the need for climate policy in Taiwan, as well as to meet renewable energy goals...
TSMC announced late last month that it would no longer be considering Longtan as a possible location for fab construction. This took place after the company–the major Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturing giant–previously considered building facilities in the Longtan Science Park...
Around 100 individuals demonstrated in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial on October 30th, calling for the demolition of the memorial as part of efforts to realize transitional justice in Taiwan...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Tanele Maseko, human rights defender from Swaziland and the wife of Thulani Maseko. Thulani Maseko, an opposition politician and human rights lawyer, was killed by unidentified gunman in January of this year. As this took place after comments by Swazi monarch King Mswati III suggesting that critics of his should be killed, it is thought that this killing was ordered by the monarch. Tanele Maseko was visiting Taipei for the Oslo Freedom Forum on October 18th. Despite the questionable human rights record of Swaziland, which was renamed Eswatini by Mswati III in April 2018, it is one of Taiwan's diplomatic allies. Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen most recently visited Eswatini this September. ...
A number of labor protests took place over the last two weeks. As these protests took place in a similar timeframe to Halloween, a number of these demonstrations involved costumes and dressing up...
