Lam Wing-kee, the only one of the Hong Kong Causeway Bay booksellers to remain free, applied for permanent residency in Taiwan last month. This application is on the basis of being a professional in arts and culture...
Seven Hongkongers that attempted to flee to Taiwan were sentenced to between seven and ten months of imprisonment earlier this week, for an escape attempt that took place in August 2020. On the same day, four Hongkongers were arrested for an attempt to flee to Taiwan...
In response to the arrest of three former Demosisto members in Hong Kong, the Tsai administration has announced new measures to assist Hongkongers seeking residency in Taiwan. Yet these new measures are unlikely to help young Hong Kong activists such as the Demosisto trio...
A solidarity march for Hong Kong took place in Taipei today, calling for the release of twelve Hongkongers currently imprisoned in China that unsuccessfully sought to flee to Taiwan in August...
Controversy has broken out after claims that the Taiwanese government has been holding five Hongkongers that fled to Taiwan under detention for the last two months. The Taiwanese government was, for the most part, opaque over past weeks about whether it is, in fact, holding the five Hongkongers—with questions having been raised about whether they have been allowed to see lawyers or contact their families...
For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with Lev Nachman. Lev Nachman is a Fulbright Research Fellow in Taiwan and a Ph. D candidate in political science at UC Irvine currently conducting fieldwork in Taiwan...
Despite that Taiwan’s borders are now open for foreign diplomats, the majority of international students, and medical travelers, the Tsai administration has still done little to assist Hongkongers seeking asylum in Taiwan...
Chinese asylum seeker and political dissident Li Jia-bao, age twenty-two and only until very recently a student, continues to face the possibility of being deported from Taiwan...
One day before the anticipated passage of new national security legislation in Hong Kong, New Bloom presents a look back at the solidarity rally for Hong Kong that took place in Taipei earlier this month in Liberty Plaza. The rally commemorated one year since the start of the protests in Hong Kong, with calls for asylum policies to be passed for Hongkongers by the Tsai administration...
With the claim that Taiwanese universities are welcoming students from Hong Kong unable to finish their studies due to the ongoing protests, perhaps some caution is warranted as to whether universities have genuinely taken action to help Hongkongers or whether this is simply just virtue signaling by Taiwanese universities...