Referendum Proposal to Speed Up Executions Reflects Continued Social Fixation...
THE CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION (CEC) stated in April that a referendum proposal by the Taiwan Lily Justice Association (TLJA) was unlikely to qualify to be put to the vote this year, as part of the...
View ArticleStraits Forum Continues Usual Lines of Rhetoric
PAN-BLUE PARTICIPATION in the 15th Straits Forum has come under fire from the DPP, with the presence of KMT representatives framed as a way that the pan-Blue camp was selling out Taiwan. The Straits...
View ArticleHou You-yi’s Mayoral Administration Rocked by Kindergarten Drugging Scandal
AN INCIDENT INVOLVING a teacher drugging students with sleeping pills in Banqiao, New Taipei, has become a scandal for New Taipei mayor Hou You-yi. Seeing as Hou is running for president as the KMT’s...
View ArticleCorporal Punishment, Student Representation Prove Linked Issues on Taiwan’s...
THE CONTROL YUAN issued a report in April, linking issues of violence in schools to the lack of the student representation on school committees. This connects two issues that have been widely reported...
View ArticleHou You-yi, Ko Wen-je Call for Reviving CSSTA
IN A SURPRISE, former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je, who is the presidential candidate of the TPP, has expressed support for passing the Cross-Strait Services Trade Agreement (CSSTA). Since this came to...
View ArticleSpeaking Out Against Formosa Plastics’ Wrongdoings the World Over: An...
New Bloom’s Brian Hioe spoke with Sharon Lavigne, Diane Wilson, Nancy Bui, and Father Peter Nguyen Van Hung on Lavigne, Wilson, and Bui’s trip to Taiwan late last month to attend a Formosa Plastics’...
View ArticleDespite Controversy, Mirror TV Approved for Broadcast
THE NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (NCC) approved the broadcast of Mirror TV earlier this week. Mirror TV is the first television network approved for broadcast in a decade and could start...
View ArticleAhead of Elections, DPP Announces Education Subsidies to Court Youth Vote
AHEAD OF ELECTIONS next year, the Tsai administration has announced a flurry of plans aimed at improving subsidies for education at the high school and college level. As such, it may not be surprising...
View ArticleKMT Calls for Oversight of Trade Agreement with US Proves Ironic Compared to...
IN PAST WEEKS, the KMT has called for a legislative review of the US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade. This proves ironic. The US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade is the first stage of a...
View ArticleIs Hou You-yi Leaning Into Nuclear Advocacy to Pacify the KMT?
KMT presidential candidate Hou You-yi has begun to lean into advocacy of nuclear power in the course of campaigning at a time of flagging ratings. Hou currently polls worse than former Taipei mayor Ko...
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