Sodagreen Announces Three-year Break
Right after receiving 5 awards at Saturday’s Golden Melody Awards ceremony, Sodagreen announced that they are going to take a three-year break to review their past and contemplate their future path. Sodagreen, with its album “Winter Endless”, was the biggest winner at the ceremony in the categories of best Mandarin album, best band, best lyricist,...Continue reading
Chen Bolin Makes a Little Girl Cry
Taiwan actor and all-around nice guy Chen Bolin has made a little girl cry. A report from the Apple Daily says the incident occurred when the 32-year-old star was filming a commercial on location near Taiwan’s northern coast. In the plot of the commercial, Chen says “no” to a little girl who tries to offer...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: The Dr. Dog is in
Listen to the podcast version of the show at the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE! On this episode, we speak to Taiwan Dr. Dog, a group working to train strays to become therapy animals for disabled patients. We discuss a new cooperative project with Taipei City that aims to find families who can help raise and...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: So, I know they SOUND angry …
Listen to the broadcast Friday May 27th at 8:30pm on ICRT FM 100, or stream the broadcast here. Or, listen to the extended podcast show on the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE. Despite China’s strident criticism of President Tsai Ing-wen’s omission of the 92 Consensus in her inaugural address, many analysts predict that Beijing is unlikely to...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: Rubber hits the road
Listen to the broadcast Friday May 20th at 8:30pm on ICRT FM 100, or stream the broadcast here. Or, listen to the extended podcast show on the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE. In this edition of Taiwan This Week, we dedicate the entire program to discussing the inauguration of President Tsai Ing-wen. During our...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Facing history with “transitional justice”
We speak to Dr. Ernest Caldwell of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) School of Law in London about President Elect Tsai Ing-wen’s pledge to confront Taiwan’s authoritarian past by pursuing a program of transitional justice. Listen to the podcast version of the show at the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE....Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: “Taiwan’s Changing Media Landscape”
We speak with Taiwan based freelance journalist Jane Rickards about her recent article for Taiwan Business TOPICS magazine, which takes a hard look at the state of Taiwan media in 2016. We discuss the strengths and challenges of Taiwan’s often sensationalist news media, along with some new players on the scene that may shake things up...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: No girls allowed … well, not many
Listen to the broadcast Friday May 6th at 8:30pm on ICRT FM 100, or stream the broadcast here. Or, listen to the extended podcast show on the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE. ICRT News and guests discuss an array of diplomatic stories confronting both major parties, then we cover two major criminal cases that brought...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: The politics of pork
Listen to the broadcast Friday April 29th at 8:30pm on ICRT FM 100, or stream the broadcast here. Or, listen to the extended podcast show on the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE. Episode Description: ICRT News and guests take on this week’s political controversy surrounding US pork imports, the diplomatic spat with Japan...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Meimeiwawa give a new take on Taiwan
Lara and Esther Veronin join the Morning Show with Terry Engel to discuss their entertainment label Meimeiwawa Multimedia. The sibling co-founders have been hard at work bringing together the best of East and West to produce original, bi-lingual film and music content that offers up their distinct perspective on Taiwan living; we discuss how they got where they are, and what they’re trying...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Taiwan’s one in forty
The One-Forty Foundation points out that Southeast Asian guest workers now number in the hundreds of thousands in Taiwan, making up a large and important segment of the nation’s society; in fact, their name is a winking reference to the fact that one in forty people living in Taiwan today are themselves a part of this group....Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: Connecting the cross-Strait dots
Listen to the broadcast Friday April 22nd at 8:30pm on ICRT FM 100, or stream the broadcast here. Or, listen to the extended podcast show on the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE. Episode Description: ICRT News and guests discuss the week’s top stories including several cases of cross-Strait drama; we do our best to try...Continue reading
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