Brian Hioe 丘琦欣
@brianhioe
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Editor @newbloommag, writes @Diplomat_APAC @itsflaminghydra. Words @washingtonpost @thenation @guardian. Nonresident fellow @UoN_TRH, @TaiwanFCC board member
Taipei, Taiwan
Joined October 2010
Some news--my first book is coming out from @RepeaterBooks in January! It's fiction, but drawing from the experiences of my early 20s as a young activist in the Sunflower Movement, Occupy Wall Street, the founding of @newbloommag, and beyond https://t.co/P8D3WkiVjJ
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Heavy sentences for spying cases in the coast guard school https://t.co/KAI6KRmVDm
news.ltn.com.tw
前海巡上校葉瑞璋退役後淪共諜，將南沙太平島交通基礎工程計畫書等軍事機密資料交給中方，經檢調查獲，去年被依違反國家安全法判刑8月、沒收犯罪所得1萬5千元定讞，國防部認定葉自此喪失領受退休金、優存等退除給與權利、並追討已領受退休金共513萬多元，葉男提起行政訴訟，最高行政法院近日判葉男敗訴確定。法界指出，葉充當共諜，意圖危害國家安全，不僅須服刑，估計將失去上千萬元退休金，損失慘重。
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A strange case, but one wonders if this will lead to further attempts to coerce outlying islands of Taiwan using what were previously regular interactions
"Repatriation Incident Shows Chinese Coercion of Outlying Islands of Taiwan" by @brianhioe
https://t.co/lLsmnzK7NJ
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Unfortunate to see but such actions from Meta are unsurprising https://t.co/Ab6Bj8OD37
taipeitimes.com
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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In the meantime, more fighting about budget allocation between the central and local governments https://t.co/g9cycWYAMj
focustaiwan.tw
Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus on Friday pledged full support for any countermeasure adopted by the Cabinet in response to a controversial opposition-backed amendment to a...
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KMT aims to reverse the DPP's pension reforms with recent moves https://t.co/K77NGle1GZ
focustaiwan.tw
The main opposition Kuomintang's (KMT) proposed amendments to raise pensions for retired civil servants and public school teachers, and end the 10-year period of pension cut that began in 2018,...
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Lai invites Han Kuo-yu in his capacity as president of the Legislative Yuan to discuss budgetary issues, including on the defense budget https://t.co/fTZpQ5BDY3
udn.com
朝野因為財劃法修法、停砍公務員年金改革案、總預算案未審等持續對抗，據了解，賴清德總統將邀請行政院、立法院以及考試院院長，...
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Wrote on nuclear cooperation between Kazakhstan and China with @noorofureyes in our latest for @globalvoices
globalvoices.org
Kazakhstan’s nuclear projects with China are another milestone in their growing and all-encompassing cooperation.
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Legislative assistants across party lines demonstrate against Chen Yu-chen's proposal accused of opening the door for corruption by way of embezzling fees for assistants. Chen has expressed some contrition, suggests the proposal could be amended https://t.co/XP9JaCbtyY
news.ltn.com.tw
國民黨立委陳玉珍提出「助理費除罪化」修法引發爭議，跨黨派國會助理今天上午在立法院大門集結抗議，訴求撤回法案、保障助理權益。陳玉珍在陳抗後也現身表示，稱她的助理就像自己家人、兄弟姐妹一樣，並坦言自己的提案不夠周延；但此話一出，遭現場助理群反嗆「不要講幹話」、「撤回提案」。由陳玉珍提案的「立法院組織法修正草案」，將「公費助理」的「公費」二字刪除，同時刪除聘用助理人數上下限規定，並明定立院編列的立...
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Detailed examination of what faces migrant workers in the fishing industry of Taiwan
"Fifteen Months at Sea, No Pay: Exploitation of Migrant Workers in Taiwan’s Fishing Industry" by Antonio Prokscha https://t.co/aX3IlSlULF
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Hmmm, will civil servants accept all this? I'm not sure myself https://t.co/05SHIj4dMy
taipeitimes.com
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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What's noteworthy is how quickly this proposal from KMT legislator Chen Yu-chen led to grassroots pushback from members of all three parties--there can, in fact, be consensus on some issues despite stark partisanship at present https://t.co/tAmPrPzWby
focustaiwan.tw
Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator Chen Yu-jen's (陳玉珍) proposal to give elected officials full control over salary stipends for their assistants has drawn sharp criticism from the ruling Democratic Progre...
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If Chiang attempts to be a moderate on cross-strait relations while conducting such exchanges with China, I generally think China would try to twist his arm sooner or later https://t.co/nq30TohPBs
focustaiwan.tw
Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) on Thursday said an upcoming bilateral city-level summit with Shanghai in China will focus on technology, innovation, water management and vocational training.
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Wrote about my tendency to destroy cell phones at key moments in my latest for @itsflaminghydra! https://t.co/ft9dn19JeH
flaminghydra.com
While traveling in Austria a few weeks ago, I was staring at my phone as I walked; I tripped, fell, and managed to drop the phone in a small stream. Admittedly, I had decided to take a walk in the...
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So why did stores that previously did collectively decide to stop selling RCA wires?
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Not surprising but still disappointing actions from the Taiwanese government when it comes to ties with Israel https://t.co/qMPipcHDZr
reuters.com
Taiwan's high-profile Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu made a previously unpublicised visit to Israel recently, three sources familiar with the trip told Reuters, at a time when Taiwan is looking...
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This is compared to actions during martial law. According to LTN, 284 legislative assistants from 49 DPP legislative offices, 24 KMT legislative offices, and 5 TPP legislative offices, have signed the petition.
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There are rumors that Fu Kun-chi is investigating which KMT legislative assistants signed the petition against Chen Yu-chen's proposal popularly seen as opening the door for embezzling subsidies meant for legislative assistant https://t.co/w5wQVgDCM5
news.ltn.com.tw
助理費除罪化案持續延燒，發起連署人今天表示，截至今天中午11時為止，共49間民進黨委員辦公室、24間國民黨委員辦公室、5間民眾黨委員辦公室、2黨團，共計284位助理連署。不過，早上在藍委助理圈卻傳出黨團總召傅崐萁正在追查哪些藍委助理連署，令不少連署助理感到恐懼，害怕被知道以後，傅崐萁逼老闆辭掉他們。對於傅崐萁對連署助理「查水表」一事，目前雖僅是傳言，但已造成部份寒蟬效應，許多助理對此感到恐懼...
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For @globalvoices, did this interview with Elzbieta Pron, Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, on the shifting role that China plays in Central Asia by way of BRI https://t.co/6Mpr3hUuqv
globalvoices.org
“All five Central Asian landlocked states were particularly focused on turning the limitations of being “landlocked” into advantages of being “landlinked”; to be an inseparable part of global...
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