The Taiwan International Labor Film Festival will be held from October 20th to October 28th. New Bloom’s Alex Chuang interviewed Catta Chou, the curator of the Taiwan International Labor Film Festival, regarding this year’s festival and the festival’s history...
The Formosa Alliance held a rally this afternoon outside DPP headquarters in Taipei in order to push for a referendum on the name Taiwan will participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics under. Organizers claimed that 120,000 were in attendance...
Horizon99 is a Singaporean collective founded by Chantal Tan (A(;D) and Sant RJwatana (Rot Front). This Saturday, Oct 20th, 2018, they are hosting an event with TeachNO at The Box in Taipei...
Some of the worst tendencies of Taiwanese would be on display in Taipei mayoral elections in both the pan-Blue and pan-Green opposition to Taipei mayor Ko Wen-Je. Namely, both DPP candidate Pasuya Yao and KMT candidate Ting Shou-Chung have taken to making a number of promises they cannot keep if they are elected mayor...
As raised in a recent The Diplomat article, statements by Taiwanese political leaders gesture towards an attempt to situate Taiwan within the framework of the “Indo-Pacific”. The “Indo-Pacific” would be the Trump administration’s preferred terminology to refer to how it strategically envisions America’s role in the geopolitical terrain of what is more commonly referred to as the “Asia Pacific,” or what was referred to as “Trans-Pacific” in the now-defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership...
The number of Uighurs seeking asylum would be on the rise internationally, with Uighurs abroad facing the strong possibility of imprisonment if they return to China simply by virtue of their ethnicity...
The fact that a current campaign to hold a referendum on a planned coal-burning power plant in Shenao has led to pressure on the DPP is evident in flip-flopping by premier William Lai on the power plant. This has led to accusations of hypocrisy on the part of Lai from the KMT, which was a major force in pushing for the referendum...
Many uncertainties remain for efforts to realize marriage equality in Taiwan, with the approval of multiple referendums on marriage equality and sexual education. Two referendums, pushed for by marriage equality supporters, have phrasing favorable to the legalization of marriage equality and have reached the necessary benchmarks to be held. On the other hand, referendums with phrasing unfavorable to gay marriage and sexual education have also reached necessary benchmarks to be held, as pushed for by anti-gay groups...
Strange, laughable efforts by the KMT to win over youth voters continue, with a spate of high-profile KMT politicians attempting to appeal to young people through hip hop...
