Sinopsis
TAIWAN TALK is ICRTs weekly interview segment with conversations on life in Taiwan. Each week, ICRTs Keith Menconi talks to a new newsmaker, discussing topics that affect your life in Taiwan -- including business, finance, politics, culture, arts and lifestyle.
Episodios
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Dr. Shaw Liu on the Future of Power Generation in Taiwan
27/05/2014 Duración: 19minWe speak to the Academia Sinica academician about how he believes Taiwan should go about securing a stable energy supply in the coming years.
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T.C. Locke on "Barbarian at the Gate: From the American Suburbs to the Taiwanese Army"
20/05/2014 Duración: 19minWe speak with Locke about his new book that recounts his experiences serving in the Taiwanese military in the mid-90's as a U.S. born Caucasian.
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Urban Nomad Film Festival
13/05/2014 Duración: 18minTaiwan Talk checks in with some of the filmmakers behind the locally produced films premiering at this year's festival.
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NEW SHOW: HereSay at Taipei Story Slam
09/05/2014 Duración: 48minThis is the trial run of ICRT's new show, HereSay, a show featuring spoken word performances from Taiwan. To give us feedback on the show, please send an email to keith@icrt.com.tw.
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Tackling Taipei's Rising House Prices
07/05/2014 Duración: 23minRecently more than a hundred real estate experts formed a group to call on the government to reform Taiwan's housing market. We speak to one of those experts for his takes on the government's proposals so far.
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Checking in with the Chinese Professional Baseball League
28/04/2014 Duración: 17minLeague games kicked off in March, so we're joined by the CPBL¡¦s James Young to gives us the rundown on what to expect this season and to talk little bit about baseball¡¦s place in Taiwan¡¦s athletic world.
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Strait Talk Berkeley on Advancing Cross-strait Dialogue
23/04/2014 Duración: 33minWe speak with the student-run nonprofit about its annual symposium which wrapped up last week wherein student delegates from China, Taiwan and the United States held moderated talks on issues related to cross-strait relations.
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Taiwan Delegation Wins Big at Invention Fair in Moscow
15/04/2014 Duración: 17minHuang Ting-Ting with the Chinese Innovation and Invention Society tells us about some of the inventions that grabbed attention at the fair, and about inventors in Taiwan.
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Dr. Richard Bush on International Relations and Taiwan's Politics
03/04/2014 Duración: 18minThe former Chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan discusses how the current political crisis could affect the trilateral relationship between Taiwan, the U.S. and China.
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Spring Scream Turns Twenty
02/04/2014 Duración: 14minWe speak with the founders of the annual music festival, Jimi Moe and Wade Davis, about this year's event and the changes it¡¦s seen over the past twenty years.
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Podcast Extra: Counter-Protesters Urge End to Occupation
01/04/2014 Duración: 12minWe speak to participants of a demonstration organized by the White Justice Social Alliance over the weekend to oppose the ongoing occupation of the Legislative Yuan.
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Michael Forncrook on Small Scale Brewing in Taiwan
28/03/2014 Duración: 14minThe owner of a Taichung based company supplying brewing ingredients and equipment gives his perspective on Taiwan's growing craft beer and home brewing movement.
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Podcast Extra: Student Protesters on the Ongoing Occupation of the Legislative Yuan
27/03/2014 Duración: 11minFor the view from the rank and file we went to the Legislative Yuan to speak with student protesters Shawna Wei and Paris Shi.
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Podcast Extra: Student Protest Leader Lin Fei-Fan on the Ongoing Occupation of the Legislative Yuan
27/03/2014 Duración: 12minWe sit down with Lin Fei-Fan at the Legislative Yuan to talk about proposed talks with President Ma Ying-jeou and what he hopes to accomplish through them.
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Nathan Kaiser on the Bitcoin Business in Taiwan
18/03/2014 Duración: 15minThe European Chamber of Commerce Taiwan supervisor and Bitcoin entrepreneur joins us to discusses what the virtual currency can do for consumers and businesses in Taiwan, and why financial regulators say they're going to keep a close eye on its use.
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Chatting with the Co-founders of Becoming
11/03/2014 Duración: 13minWe sit down with Jane Wang, Zona Tsou, and Lauren Mark to talk about Becoming, a new organization in Taipei that invites people to share their creative talents through workshops and events.
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Anting Liu on Teach for Taiwan
03/03/2014 Duración: 13minWe speak with Anting Liu about Teach for Taiwan, an organization that she founded to help bring more teachers to remote areas in Taiwan.
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PODCAST EXTRA: Activist Ting-an Lin Shares Her Perspective
25/02/2014 Duración: 12minContinuing our discussion about protest movements in Taiwan, we caught up with activist Ting-an Lin to hear about her experiences taking part in the anti-nuclear energy and anti-media monopoly movements.
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Journalist J. Michael Cole Talks About Some of the Growing Protest Movements in Taiwan
25/02/2014 Duración: 14minJ. Michael Cole has been covering these movements for the past year and a half. He joins us to talk about some of the new developments he's observed.
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We Talk Cross-strait Relations with Political Scientist Paul Chu
18/02/2014 Duración: 12minProfessor Paul Chu discusses last week's Nanjing summit between Taiwan¡¦s Mainland Affairs Minister Wang Yu-chi and his Chinese counterpart Zhang Zhijun.