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The Politics of Pork
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-04-29 06:43
ICRT News and guests take on this week's political controversy surrounding US pork imports, the diplomatic spat with Japan over fishing rights, the disturbing news of 39 shelter dogs who died from heat exhaustion in transport, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Connecting the Cross-Strait Dots
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-04-22 06:51
ICRT News and guests discuss the week's top stories including a whole bunch of cross-Strait drama and what it all means, the OBI Pharma insider trading case, the US Taiwan Business Council delegation in Taiwan, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Spy vs. Guy
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-04-15 06:54
ICRT News and guests discuss a long list of the week's top stories including the controversial Kenya deportations, the cancelling of the Farglory Taipei Dome contract, a US espionage case that may implicate Taiwan, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Hon Hai and Sharp Take the Plunge
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-04-08 06:40
ICRT News and guests take on a broad range of Taiwan news including the impact of the Panama Papers on Taiwan, the indictments related to the Weiguan Jinlong building collapse, the Hon Hai Sharp merger, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Taiwan Mourns Together
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-04-01 06:33
ICRT News and guests discuss the week's top stories including this Monday's tragic killing of a four year old girls and the public response, Hung's ascension to the head of the KMT, new warnings about the spread of terrorist ideology in Taiwan, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Mr. Siew Goes to Boao
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-03-25 05:50
ICRT News discusses the week's top stories including high level talks at the Boao Forum for Asia, tomorrow's KMT chairmanship election, the central bank's lowering of interest rates, an altercation involving two Taiwan fishing boats, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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An EX-ally Moves On
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-03-18 06:07
ICRT News is joined by Gwen Wang and Ross Feingold to discuss the week's top stories including news that China has resumed diplomatic ties with Gambia, Tsai's pick for premier, the release of a soil liquefaction map and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Funny Money
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-03-11 05:21
ICRT News is joined by Michael Boyden of Taiwan Asia Strategy Consulting and Japan based energy correspondent Mark Buckton to discuss the week's top stories. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Where You Going With That Plutonium?
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-03-04 04:51
ICRT News is joined by Ross Feingold of DC International Advisory to discuss President Elect Tsai's decision to stay on as DPP chairwoman, controversy over what to do with spent nuclear fuel, a call to allow the Dalai Lama to visit Taiwan, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Playing Hard to Takeover, or Hon Hai Won't You Love Me?
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-02-26 06:10
Listen in as ICRT news and commentators discuss the Hon Hai-Sharp deal, new revelations regarding Taiwan's past nuclear ambitions, the KMT chairmanship race, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Trouble at The Unfortunately Named Island
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-02-19 05:47
ICRT news is joined by Ross Feingold of DC International Advisory to discuss accusations of militarization in the South China Sea, the new DPP led Legislative Yuan as it starts its term, the continuing fallout from the February 6th earthquake, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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One For the (extremely congested) Road
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-02-05 06:25
ICRT News is joined by Donovan Smith and Klaus Bardenhagen to discuss the week's top stories including steps to prevent Zika virus in Taiwan, Taiwan's newest legislative speaker, criticism of President Ma's human rights record, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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An "Unhelpful," "Disappointing" Episode
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-01-29 06:04
Listen to this freewheeling discussion in which we take a look at the stern US reaction to President Ma's Taiping Island visit, how the new legislature is likely to shape up, last weekend's cold snap, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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No, You Run the Country!
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-01-22 06:38
It's been a busy week for news in Taiwan, so we skip the election recap and go straight to the election's fallout, including difficulty forming a transitional government, proposals to reform the KMT, LY reform calls from the DPP, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Election-eve Is Here!
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-01-15 07:27
We dedicate this entire show to breaking down tomorrow's presidential and legislative election. Listen in as we discuss the local races in the North, center, and South, how new parties are shaking things up, and the role of corruption in the election. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Bonus Election Coverage: ICRT 2016 Election Roundtable (round 2)
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-01-14 07:03
Listen to our latest political roundtable on the 2016 election. On the panel: Eric Huang of the KMT, DPP Secretary-General Joseph Wu, Former Minister Lee Hong-yuan, Dr. Yu-Shan Wu of Academia Sinica, and Dr. Eric Yu of Chengchi university. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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You Can Bet On It
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2016-01-08 05:19
ICRT News and commentators discuss North Korea's claims of a successful hydrogen bomb test and what it could mean for Taiwan, some of the controversies from the recent presidential debate, this week's massive gambling busts, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Looking Back On the News of 2015
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2015-12-31 04:45
A Special Year-end Look at the Top Five Taiwan Stories of 2015 -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Take My Cellphone, Please
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2015-12-25 08:46
In today's edition of Taiwan this Week - politics and some proposed policies from the DPP, KMT and PFP, a 21 hour siege that ended without the lose of any lives and calls for a 'no mobile phone day' from and for students. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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Let's Make a Deal!
From 🇹🇼 Taiwan This Week, published at 2015-12-18 05:30
ICRT News is joined by the Economist's Jane Rickards to discuss the week's biggest stories including the US-Taiwan arms deal, a controversial investment plan from a Chinese state backed company, a formerly secret Apple production lab in Taoyuan, and more. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn