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Taiwan This Week: March Week 4

Taiwan This Week: March Week 4

Welcome to Taiwan This Week, a roundup of the top news stories from around the island over the past seven days. Listen in every Friday at 8:30pm for the must-know news that is happening in Taiwan now, with our host ICRT’s Keith Menconi, as he sits down with Gavin Phipps and our correspondent Compass Magazine‘s Donovan Smith....Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: March Week 3 Inaugural Edition

Taiwan This Week: March Week 3 Inaugural Edition

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Taiwan This Week, a roundup of the top news stories from around the island over the past seven days. Listen in every Friday at 8:30pm for the must-know news that is happening in Taiwan now, with our host ICRT’s Keith Menconi, as he sits down with Gavin Phipps and our...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Boardgames in Taiwan with Swan Panasia

Taiwan Talk: Boardgames in Taiwan with Swan Panasia

Click HERE for the audio! Board games are enjoying something of a boom in popularity in Taiwan and venues to play these games seem to be popping up everywhere. The L.A. times reports that in just the last 5 years about 50 game cafes have opened in the Taipei area, with another 50 opening elsewhere...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Colorwolf Studio on Taiwan's arts community

Taiwan Talk: Colorwolf Studio on Taiwan’s arts community

!!Click HERE to listen!! On the episode we take trip to Color Wolf Studios, a Taipei based studio and art collective that provides work space for about a dozen artists and also hosts events that bring Taiwan’s artistic community together. While we’re there we speak with the group’s director, American expat Patty Hogan, to learn...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: What's coming up for Taipei's MRT this year?

Taiwan Talk: What’s coming up for Taipei’s MRT this year?

Episode Description On this episode we make a trip over to Taipei’s Department of Rapid Transit Systems (DORTS) for an update on the decades-long Taipei Metro project, and while we’re there we learn a little bit more about the lines set to open later this year. Guest: Deputy Commissioner Shih-Choib Fu Visit DORTS at their...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Stories from Taiwan with the Taipei Writers Group

Taiwan Talk: Stories from Taiwan with the Taipei Writers Group

Episode Description Writing about the history or the politics of a place is one thing, but how do you capture the texture of daily life: the sights, the smells, the little quirks of culture that define a city or a region? It’s a difficult task, but that’s just what the Taipei Writers Group set out...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Taiwan's about face on deportation requirement for foreigners with HIV/AIDS

Taiwan Talk: Taiwan’s about face on deportation requirement for foreigners with HIV/AIDS

Episode Description Taiwan is poised to end its longstanding policy of requiring deportation of foreigners found to be infected with the HIV virus after an amendment eliminating the requirement was passed by the Legislative Yuan. On this Taiwan Talk we speak with AIDS rights advocate Ashley Wu of Taipei based non-profit Persons with HIV/AIDS Rights...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Bringing the Taiwan Tradition of Puppet Theater International

Taiwan Talk: Bringing the Taiwan Tradition of Puppet Theater International

Episode Description With Centuries of tradition to draw on, puppet theater is still a popular form of entertainment here in Taiwan having made the successful move onto television and the big screen over the last 40 years. Of course, the enthusiasm for Taiwanese puppet theater has long been mostly contained within Taiwan’s boarders, but on...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Animals Taiwan on caring for the island’s strays

Taiwan Talk: Animals Taiwan on caring for the island’s strays

Episode Description For more than a decade, animal welfare group Animals Taiwan  has been on the front lines of efforts to provide care for Taiwan’s stray and neglected animals with its Taipei based rescue center, which at any given time houses and cares for as many as 80 cats and dogs. But the group is...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Innovating Education Through Gaming

Taiwan Talk: Innovating Education Through Gaming

Episode Description All over the world educators and entrepreneurs are using the tools of the internet age to update how we educate our students from Khan Academy to Coursera to simple things like flash card apps. On this episode we hear about one of these ideas that popped up right here in Taiwan: PaGamO. It’s...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Talking invention with "Taiwan's Thomas Edison"

Taiwan Talk: Talking invention with “Taiwan’s Thomas Edison”

Listen Episode Description Gordon Teng (Teng Hung-chi / 鄧鴻吉) is often referred to by Taiwan’s media as Taiwan’s Thomas Edison, with good reason too. In the last thirty years he has developed more than 300 patented inventions, winning numerous awards for his work along the way. In fact, just last month he picked up a...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Chatime brings Taiwan tastes global

Taiwan Talk: Chatime brings Taiwan tastes global

Listen Episode Description We’re all used to seeing foreign food and beverage chains pop up in Taiwan — from KFC to Mos Burger to Starbucks — but can a Taiwanese brand gain mass appeal abroad? Today on the show we’re going to speak to a company that is trying to do just that, and has...Continue reading