Taiwan Talk

We speak to Johnny Chiang, who's YouTube channel Stop Kiddin' Studios, promotes Taiwan to foreigners through viral videos.

We speak with Michael Lalo Wong of Portico Media about viral video production in Taiwan.

We speak to Robin Winkler, a naturalized Taiwanese citizen whose bid to run in next year's Legislative Yuan election makes him the first Caucasian to seek such a high elected office in Taiwan.

We speak with a member of the Council of Indigenous Peoples about new regulations allowing indigenous people in Taiwan to apply for intellectual property rights over cultural creations.

We speak with One Pavilion to Go, a group of young Taiwanese adults who have launched a campaign to establish a pavilion in Milan after Italy declined Taiwan's request to set up a national pavilion.

We speak to filmmaker and actor Barney Cheng about his new movie "Baby Steps", where a gay Taiwanese-American man tries having a baby with his partner.

We speak to James Chang of the Taiwan International Working Holiday Association about recent revelations of abuse and exploitation of many Taiwanese on working holiday visas in Australia.

We speak to James Hardy of IHS Jane's Defence Weekly to learn a little bit about what the growing dispute about territory in the South China Sea will mean for Taiwan.

We speak with Collin Norman of Taipei Story Slam, a group hosting monthly storytelling events in Taipei. We discuss the event and what stories have turned up at the show.

We speak to a recently founded media group that is aiming to expand the coverage of Taiwan for English speaking audiences and add a new perspective to the media scene here on the island.

MLB Scout Adam Hislop tells us about his work finding Taiwan's top baseball players.

A distillery in Yilan county has managed to produce a whisky that has earned recognition as the best single malt in the world. In the episode we speak with Kavalan's blender, Ian Chang, about how they managed to pull this off.

With presidential elections coming up in the US and Taiwan, we speak the head of the US-Taiwan Business Council about what impact the outcomes may have on bilateral ties.

It¡¦s been just a little more than one year now since the beginning of the protests that rocked Taiwan, and we speak with one of the movement¡¦s key organizers about what the lasting impact has been and where it's headed now.

We speak to the Taipei Film Commission about their push to raise Taiwan's profile as a filming location for international filmmakers.

On this program we speak with Johannes Goeth of Swan Panasia, a Taipei based import-export business bringing foreign board games to Taiwan and Taiwanese games to the world.

We speak to Taipei based art collective Colorwolf Studio about their work to bring together members of Taiwan's arts community.

On this episode we make a trip over to Taipei¡¦s Department of Rapid Transit for an update on the decades-long Taipei Metro project, and while we¡¦re there we learn a little bit more about the lines set to open later this year.

A group of Taipei based writers just released "Taiwan Tales": a collection of short stories set in Taiwan. On the show today we speak to them about what bit of Taiwan they feel they've managed to capture in their writing.

Taiwan will likely soon end its long standing policy requiring deportation of foreigners found to be infected with HIV. On this episode we speak with HIV/AIDS rights advocate Ashley Wu to learn about how this law was changed and what suffers can expect no