Taipei Temperature Hits Year’s High at 37.8 Degrees
The temperature in Taipei set a new high for this year when the mercury hit 37.8 degrees at 12:15 PM Sunday due to a strong high pressure system over the Pacific. The previous record of 37.6 degrees was set on July 9th. In neighboring New Taipei’s Banqiao District and Keelung City, temperature also soared to...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Hello, Taiwan – a Photojournalist on Covering Taiwan (7/14-15/2014)
Listen Episode Description On this episode of Taiwan Talk we discuss Hello, Taiwan （台灣你好）, a new book out by Canadian photojournalist David Smith. Smith has lived and worked in Taiwan off and on since 1997. During his time here he took photos for a number of local newspapers including the Apple Daily, in the process...Continue reading
ICRT Pays Tribute to Bill Thissen, Former Newscaster and Host of Jazz Flavors
Bill Thissen – a former ICRT newscaster and the host of Jazz Flavors, Taiwan’s longest running radio jazz show – died Saturday at Taipei Veterans General Hospital in the capital. He was 72. Bill worked for ICRT at its various locations for 29 years until his retirement in 2013. For nearly three decades, Bill was...Continue reading
Professor Yu Zhen-hua on November Elections in Taipei
Professor Yu Zhen-hua, a political analyst from National Chengchi University, talked to ICRT about his take on the November elections in Taipei and New Taipei. Yu attributed the recent low public poll ratings for Sean Lien, the KMT nominee for the Taipei Mayoral office, to the overall slump in the general public’s support for the party. But he said it could be just a temporary phenomenon. He...Continue reading
French Director Luc Besson Explains Lucy Location Choice, Praises Taiwan
French director Luc Besson said in a behind-the-scenes report Thursday that he fell in love with Taipei 10 years ago when he was promoting his film The Fifth Element and decided to pick the city as the location for his new action thriller Lucy. Besson made the comments in an exclusive, 110-second behind-the-scenes preview of...Continue reading
Complete List of 2014 Emmy Nominations
One of the drawbacks for couch potatoes TV fanatics living in Taiwan is that the import rate of foreign TV shows is significantly lower than that of the movies, making it somewhat more difficult to stay on top of all the shows that are airing in the States and abroad. Luckily, the Emmys – TV’s...Continue reading
Innovating Taiwan: Ford’s Trevor Worthington on Success in the Auto Industry
Last month, I had the opportunity to speak with Trevor Worthington, Ford’s Vice-President of Product Development for Asia Pacific, at COMPUTEX Taipei 2014– the world’s second largest computer fair – where we discussed success and innovation in the auto industry. Listen Listening and Understanding To open our chat, Worthington and I spoke about some of...Continue reading
Taiwanese-American Singer Wang Leehom Announces Birth of His First Child
Taiwanese-American singer Wang Leehom (王力宏) on Thursday announced the birth of his first child. Wang made it clear to the public that he has waited for this moment his entire life. Wang made the announcement via a Facebook post, with the 38-year-old saying that his baby girl “arrived early.” Wang and Lee Jing Lei, 27,...Continue reading
Taiwan Ranked World’s 2nd Safest Country
Taiwan ranked in second place as the world’s safest country, just behind Japan, according to a list compiled on the website Lifestyle9. The website ranked 10 countries based on several factors such as crime rate, low rate of natural disasters, immunity to financial crisis, etc. Information was also gathered on crime statistics from the U.S....Continue reading
Temperatures Hit Year’s High in Taitung
Temperatures in Taitung County’s Da-Wu Township soared to 38.3 degrees yesterday — the highest recorded anywhere islandwide so far this year. The Central Weather Bureau says the high was recorded at 11:41 AM and was due to a Foehn wind – that being warm and dry gusts that descend the sheltered side of mountains into...Continue reading
Peanut Butter Samples May Be Contaminated
The Consumers’ Foundation yesterday said 50 percent of sampled peanut butter was found to contain aflatoxin – a substance that can be harmful to humans over long-term consumption. According to the foundation, the amount of aflatoxin found in the test samples did not exceed the 15-parts per billion legal limit. However, the consumer watchdog is...Continue reading
Taiwanese Singer-Songwriter Jonathan Lee Performs at Hollywood’s Dolby Theater
Singer-songwriter and record producer Jonathan Lee has become the first Taiwanese singer to perform at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. Lee performed his most popular songs on Sunday at the 3,400 seat venue, which was 90 percent full. During the concert, Lee shared a video clip of him recording music in Los Angeles 30...Continue reading
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