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HereSay Episode 4: "Friend or Foe"

HereSay Episode 4: “Friend or Foe”

Listen Tonight’s episode will features four stories told at Taipei Story Slam events throughout the year, all on the theme “Friend or Foe.” It was broadcast Thursday November 27th at 9pm, but you can still catch it online: There’s the embed on this page right up top. You can also stream the show through the Taiwan Talk...Continue reading
HereSay Episode 3: "Lost and Found"

HereSay Episode 3: “Lost and Found”

Listen This episode features four stories told at Taipei Story Slam’s June event, all on the theme “Lost and Found.” It was broadcast Thursday November 20th at 9pm, but you can still catch it online. So there’s the embed on this page right up top. You can also stream the show through the Taiwan Talk...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: ICRT interviews Tainan mayoral candidates Hsiu-Shuang Huang and William Lai

Taiwan Talk: ICRT interviews Tainan mayoral candidates Hsiu-Shuang Huang and William Lai

Listen Episode Description This week we’re bringing you interviews from two mayoral candidates in Tainan. First, ICRT’s Michael Smith interviews current mayor William Lai. Next, we hear from President of National University of Tainan and KMT candidate Dr. Hsiu-Shuang Huang.     Other places to listen You can stream episodes of this program online at the...Continue reading
HereSay Episode 2: Coming Home

HereSay Episode 2: Coming Home

Listen This episode features four stories told throughout the year at Taipei Story Slam, all on the theme “coming home.” It broadcast November 13th, but you can still download the full episode here, or stream it on iTunes. We’re going to be running a new hour long episode of HereSay every Thursday night at 9...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: ICRT interviews mayoral candidates Jason Hu and Yang Chiu-hsing

Taiwan Talk: ICRT interviews mayoral candidates Jason Hu and Yang Chiu-hsing

Listen Episode Description This week we’re bringing you interviews from two mayoral races in Taiwan. First up Compass Magazine‘s Courtney Donovan Smith sits down with Taichung’s incumbent mayor, Jason Hu. A little later in the program  ICRT’s Keith Menconi speaks with Minister without Portfolio Yang Chiu-hsing. Other places to listen You can stream episodes of this...Continue reading
HereSay Episode 1: On Thin Ice

HereSay Episode 1: On Thin Ice

Listen This episode features four stories told during the Taipei Story Slam event in May, all on the theme “on thin ice.” We aired this one November 6th. We’re going to be running a new hour long program every Thursday night at 9 PM this November. Episode two will air November 13th; the theme next...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Nine in One Elections Highlight - Taipei

Taiwan Talk: Nine in One Elections Highlight – Taipei

Listen Episode Description This week we’re bringing you interviews from both Taipei mayoral Candidates, the KMT’s Sean Lien and independent candidate Ko Wen-je. We gave both candidates the chance to respond to the same set of questions on their plans to improve life for residents of Taiwan’s capital city.  This episode is guest hosted by...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Touring the National Palace Museum in English

Taiwan Talk: Touring the National Palace Museum in English

Listen Episode Description Last year more than four million people visited Taipei’s National Palace Museum, which houses one of the world’s largest collections of Chinese imperial artifacts. These visitors came from all over the world and to make the collection more accessible for foreign visitors the museum offers free tours in English. In this episode...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Taiwan's Ambassador to the US Lyu-hsun Shen

Taiwan Talk: Taiwan’s Ambassador to the US Lyu-hsun Shen

Listen Episode Description As cross-strait ties progress, many are wondering what role the United States is going to play. In the end, how much can Taiwan look to its partner across the Pacific for support? Since taking up his new post in DC in April of this year, Taiwan’s Ambassador in the US Lyu-hsun Shen has been...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Learning the languages of Taiwan

Taiwan Talk: Learning the languages of Taiwan

Listen Episode Description On this episode we speak to the founder of Glossika, a Taiwan based company that develops audio study kits for languages from all over the world, and recently has set its sights squarely on the languages of Taiwan. Earlier this year it’s released a kit for studying Taiwanese, and now it’s working...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Taiwan's first Literature Award for Migrants wraps up

Taiwan Talk: Taiwan’s first Literature Award for Migrants wraps up

Listen Episode Description On this episode, we speak to the organizer of the the Literature Award for Migrants, Chang Cheng, about the competition he organized to help gain exposure for the literary abilities of Taiwan’s Southeast Asian population. The award, which wrapped up last month, invited literary submissions in Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian and Tagalog. During our...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Diss RBL talks rap battles in Taiwan

Taiwan Talk: Diss RBL talks rap battles in Taiwan

Listen Episode Description On this episode of Taiwan Talk we speak to Canadian expat Dallas Waldie about the Mandarin rap battle league he founded here in Taiwan, Diss RBL. He tells us a bit about the form of rap battling the group is helping to popularize, and what rap battling looks like in Taiwan.   During...Continue reading