A demonstration against so-called “red media” was held yesterday on Ketagalan Boulevard, “red media” referring to increasing Chinese influence in Taiwanese media. According to organizers, 100,000 attended, despite rain...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe interviewed Valerie Soe, the director of Love Boat: Taiwan. Love Boat: Taiwan is a recently released documentary about the Overseas Compatriot Youth Formosa Study Tour, better known as the "Love Boat", a program which provides a monthlong tour of Taiwan for individuals of Taiwanese or Chinese descent born outside of Taiwan or China from 1967 onward. The "Love Boat" program remains widely known among diasporic Taiwanese even today...
Protests continue in Hong Kong, with a series of protests yesterday culminating in demonstrators surrounding Hong Kong police headquarters in Wan Chai into the early morning hours...
EVA flight attendants from the Taoyuan Flight Attendants' Union began a strike at 4 PM on Thursday. 2,949 of EVA Air’ 4,600 or so flight attendants are striking. Workers also held a sit-in outside EVA headquarters, with over one thousand participating...
On June 16th, a rally was held in Washington DC as a part of global solidarity rallies against a proposed extradition bill that the Hong Kong government intended to pass until its suspension last weekend...
On June 11th, victims of the marine life disaster submitted a transnational lawsuit against Formosa Plastics Group, the corporation responsible for causing massive fish deaths in the oceans near Ha Linh, Quang Linh, Quang Tri, and Thua Thien-Hue in Vietnam in 2016...
Yesterday's march against the Beijing-backed extradition bill pushed for by the Hong Kong government ended without major incident, with over two million residents of Hong Kong taking to the streets by the time of the demonstration’s end. But with the Hong Kong government not yet withdrawing the extradition bill, more protests are expected for today, inclusive of another call for a general strike...
Demonstrators marched through the streets of Hong Kong in the thousands once again today in order to protest against the Hong Kong government’s handling of a planned extradition treaty which would allow Hong Kong residents to be deported to China to face criminal charges. Organizers claim that over 1,400,000 demonstrators are present....
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced the temporary suspension of efforts by the government to pass the extradition bill today, stating that the government would "pause and think" after public controversy. Although this may mark an end to immediate tensions in Hong Kong, it remains to be seen if the government will resume pushing for the bill at a later date...