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Pork Bun Perseverance
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-09-30 08:03
We discuss this week's typhoon controversies, the lack of an invitation for Taiwan to a UN aviation assembly, a standoff between Changhua county and a local power plant, and a recent protest over the government's use of eminent domain. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Three Pronged, White Something-or-others
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-09-23 07:15
ICRT News and commentators discuss the week's biggest stories including the controversial delegation to China, that revealing Google Maps photo of Taiping island, and Penghu's upcoming gambling referendum. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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See You At the Protest
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-09-09 08:07
We discuss the pension reform controversy, the tourism industry controversy, and the Tsai Admin¡¦s Southbound Policy. We also feature a conversation with contract reporter Ralph Jennings over a recent controversy centered on one of his articles. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Tsai Admin Turns 100 Days Old!
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-09-02 06:54
In this special edition of the show, ICRT News and commentators discuss the Tsai administration's first 100 days in office and the current state of Taiwan politics. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Pokemon Going ... going ... still here.
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-08-26 07:10
ICRT News and commentators discuss the week¡¦s top stories including Mega Bank¡¦s mega controversy, the Han Kuang military exercises, the Taipei-Shanghai Forum, and Taiwan's showing at the just concluded Olympics. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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UN membership a no-go, while emissions cause a stink in the center of the island
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-08-19 09:20
This week host Gavin Phipps sits down with Compass Magazine's Donovan Smith in Taichung, Ross Feingold of the Washington-based D.C. International Advisory and Brian Chee-Shing Hioe of the New Bloom Magazine. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Pokemon NOOOO!!!
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-08-12 06:42
ICRT News and commentators discuss the top stories of the week including the latest Olympic news, the case of the drunk driving diplomat, new moves to help Taiwan's potential bid for the TPP, and of course the fallout from the arrival of Pokemon Go. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Mixed Reactions
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-08-05 09:56
ICRT News and guests discuss the Uber drama, the back and forth over the 40 hour work week proposal, a raft of political news, and we round things out with an in depth discussion of President Tsai's apology to Taiwan's aboriginal peoples. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Good to Be Thorough
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-07-29 07:38
On this show we discuss the LY¡¦s marathon review session, the passage of a party assets bill, the group of fisherman who paid a visit to Taiping island, and we speak with DR. Ian Rowen of Academia Sinica about the cross-Strait tourism industry. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Snark Attack
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-07-22 07:54
This week we give updates on the ATM heist, the tragic tour bus accident that left 26 dead, then we take on a broad range of topics including labor politics, the South China Sea Controversy, and a possible cooperative project with NASA. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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I Got a Rock ...
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-07-15 08:07
ICRT News and commentators look beneath the surface of the South China Sea ruling and what it will mean for Taiwan, then in the second half of the show we discuss the Red Cross controversy, the ATM bank heists and the continuing Uber saga. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Typhoon Daze
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-07-08 06:54
We cover the week's top stories, including the Navy's accidental missile launch, the upcoming tribunal decision on China's claims to the South China sea, and we take an in depth look at new regulations aimed at reining in Taiwan's far seas fleet. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Failure to Communicate
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-07-01 07:09
ICRT News and guests discuss Beijing's announcement that cross-strait communication has been suspended, wins and losses for Taiwan's labor movement, how the Brexit might effect Taiwan, and we reflect on the Formosa Fun Coast fire disaster. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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That Escalated Quickly!
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-06-24 06:38
We discuss the ongoing China Airlines strike, the slow progress of the controversial transitional justice bill, an environmental disaster in Vietnam some allege has been caused by a Taiwanese company, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Travel Plans
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-06-17 07:51
We discuss the week's top political news which mostly involved travel plans for Taiwan's current and former presidents, then we discuss the controversy surrounding a video stoking ethnic tensions, and we update our look at Taiwan's future energy options. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Taiwan Politics After the Love Has Gone
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-06-03 07:11
This week we discuss the crazy weather in Northern Taiwan, the chaos on Tuesday as KMT lawmakers pressed the Tsai administration hard on trade and fishing rights issues, a new approval poll for the country's mayors, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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I Know They Sound Angry ...
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-05-27 06:23
We take a look at China's reaction to the Tsai presidency one week on, then in the second half we discuss some of the more prominent changes already enacted by the newly minted Executive Yuan. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Rubber Hits the Road
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-05-20 09:06
We dedicate the whole program today to discussing President Tsai Ing-wen's inauguration ceremony and taking a hard look at exactly what was in her wide ranging inauguration speech. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Last Hurrah
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-05-13 07:14
We discuss the controversy surrounding the execution of MRT knife killer Cheng Chieh, one Taiwan group's decision to weigh in on the Philippine's ongoing South China Sea case, anger stoked by wording in Taiwan's WHA invitation, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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No Girls Allowed ... Not Many Anyway
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-05-06 06:48
We take on an array of diplomatic stories confronting both major parties, then we cover two major criminal cases that brought the death penalty back in the news, disappointment over poor gender representation among cabinet appointees, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn