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Taiwan and China have reportedly come to terms in the aftermath of an incident in February that left two Chinese fishermen dead

The Lai administration will soon lift remaining restrictions on food imports from Fukushima disaster-affected Japanese prefectures. This includes Fukushima itself,...

With five countries ending current preferential visa privileges for Taiwanese citizens this year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has been questioned as to...

More Taiwanese students are going on “exchange” trips to visit China for fun, but are subjected to political messages throughout the trip.

The debate over whether visits to China are truly an “exchange” or “United Front activities” may remain unsolvable, but regardless of political stance or ideology,...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company recently won a $6.6 billion grant from the US Department of Commerce to subsidize the construction of three...

The KMT legislative caucus has begun to call for introducing the use of the death penalty against those involved in the abuse of children

Pension reform seems set to become a battleground issue between the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps. The KMT is currently seeking to undo the Tsai administration’s...

Written by Russell Sherrard-Smith. This article compares Taiwan’s DPP with the Liberal Party of the Philippines, focusing on party institutionalisation and how it...

Written by Eric Siu-kei Cheng. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that explores the co-production between technology and society....

Written by An-Ru Chu. This article explores the performative nature of the cannon drill demonstration at the Shishan (Mt. Lion) Howitzer Front, a popular tourist...

Written by Tran Thi Mong Tuyen. Since the 1990s, Taiwan’s government has championed the “Go South” and “New Southbound” policies, catalyzing Taiwanese...

Written by Tran Thi Mong Tuyen. Since the 1990s, Taiwan’s government has championed the “Go South” and “New Southbound” policies, catalyzing Taiwanese...

Environmentalists called on the government to take further action against carbon emissions ahead of the Lunar New Year. In particular, the Environmental Justice...

Taiwanese civil society groups held a press conference in the legislature on February 2nd to call attention to the third anniversary of the coup in Myanmar, which...

Three Chinese asylum seekers were sent back to Malaysia in November, though this news was only reported on earlier this month. The incident proves revealing about...

Hsinchu mayor Ann Kao of the TPP faces allegations of spending 1.48 million NT of public expenditures on renovating the Hsinchu mayoral office. Kao was accused of...

Environmental and human rights groups held two days of events in Taipei last month to call attention to the fact that Taiwan has now become the fifth-largest...

In an unusual case, a Taiwanese businessman named Fang Hsiang and his associates have become implicated in espionage charges. Fang, who served as the head of a...

There was much discussion about the implications for Taiwan in the wake of the first US presidential debate, which took place late last month between Joe Biden of...

The Philippines and Taiwan have expanded their informal relations, but Chinese pressure will necessitate coordination between Manila and Taipei.

The law requires marriage as a prerequisite for ART and restricts the use of this technology to infertile couples. However, over the last decade and as Taiwan...

The legislature seems to be set to debate naturalization rights going forward. The potential outcome will likely influence naturalization rights for Chinese...

A recent issue facing the KMT has involved alleged voting irregularities in the legislature on the issue of pension reform

Some feverish media reporting in English, from pan-Blue-leaning media outlets or journalists, has honed in on the prospect of the 760 remaining statues of Chiang...

Written by Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng. Drawing on field notes on punk and metal musical performances by Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan, this article reveals racism...

Written by Ling-Ming Huang. Taiwan’s semiconductor industry grew significantly in the 1970s and 1980s, driven by important government-led strategies aimed at...

Written by Hui-Tzu Huang. The development of citizen power plants in Taiwan faces challenges such as the commercialization of energy cooperatives, centralized...

Written by Yi-hsiang Shih. On May 10, 2023, a construction crane fell from a construction site of Highwealth Construction Corporation and entered the metro tracks...

Two recent incidents highlight the continued issue of police brutality in Taiwan. In particular, there are many cases in which police carry out acts of violence...

An incident involving the drowning death of two Chinese fishermen, who were on a speedboat intruding in the territorial waters of Kinmen, continues to be...

A drowning incident involving two individuals on a Chinese speedboat in Kinmen territorial waters could prove a case that ramps up tensions between Taiwan and...

Written by Raian Hossain. Now that the election results are in, the period of intense suspense and electoral speculation has concluded. The issue of cross-strait...

The Paris Olympics ended with both Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria taking home gold medals for boxing in their respective categories. It is...

Hsinchu county commissioner Yang Wen-ke has been indicted on charges of collusion with a construction firm, the Fong Yi Construction Company

Hsinchu mayor Ann Kao of the TPP and Taichung legislator Yen Kuan-heng of the KMT were both sentenced on corruption charges last week

Ever since the Sunflower Movement, Beijing has made winning favor from Taiwanese youths whose identities are in flux a priority, attempting to attract them across...

China offers student exchange programs as a part of its United Front to influence Taiwanese society at all levels. These budget-friendly travel packages are hard...

The US House approved 8 billion USD in foreign aid for Taiwan last week. This came as part of a package that contained an overall 95 billion USD in foreign aid,...

The Taiwanese government is expected to continue normal operations in terms of air traffic, after the Chinese government announced unilaterally in February that it...

Briefly after a viral video of Indonesian soldiers torturing a Papuan native spread throughout the internet, New Bloom contributor Girard Lopez spoke to West...

A controversy involving illegal investments by SET News in March is likely to be leveraged on by the pan-Blue camp to attack the DPP. In particular, SET News has...

Written by Tim Schütz. This article explores the Kaohsiung Asthma Files Archive. This public-facing research archive gathers a diverse range of data to tell...

Written by Chee-Hann Wu. This article argues that the Oscar-nominated short documentary Island in Between highlights the liminality and in-betweenness of both the...

Written by Isabelle Cockel. This article reviews the case of Nguyen Quoc Phi, an undocumented Vietnamese worker who lost his life to a police constable’s gunshots...

Written by Billion Lee. Cofacts, a civic technology community, has been developing information technology tools to combat disinformation since 2016. As Taiwan...

Ahead of the inauguration of Lai Ching-te as the new president, the KMT has continued to call for the revival of the Special Investigation Division of the Ministry...

The Tsai administration has defended a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked between the Taiwanese government and the Indian government about allowing Indians to...

A political controversy about a banned meat additive has become an object of partisan contestation between the KMT and DPP, with the KMT boycotting a report to the...