Taiwan Talk

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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.

Episódios

  • Coffee Meets Bagel CEO Arum Kang on how to Meet Your "Forever-Someone"

    18/03/2024 Duração: 08min

    Can technology really help you find the partner of your dreams? Coffee Meets Bagel Co-Founder and CEO Arum Kang thinks so. She tells I-C-R-T's Hope Ngo how algorithms could be the 21st century Cupid singletons are looking for.

  • There All Along: Lawyer John Eastwood discovers Taipei's architectural gems

    11/03/2024 Duração: 09min

    Lawyer and longtime Taiwan resident John Eastwood's social media now features curated images of some of Taipei's most iconic colonial buildings. He speaks to I-C-R-T's Hope Ngo about his interest in local architecture: what spurred it and what captures his imagination.

  • More than fusion: Chef Kunihiro Hagimoto on his one Michelin star restaurant Inita

    04/03/2024 Duração: 09min

    Japan and Italy may sit on different, faraway continents, but Initia's Chef Kunihiro Hagimoto says its easy to catch the similarities between the two cuisines -- and what they are -- during a chat with I-C-R-T 's Hope Ngo.

  • Historian Mark O'Neill offers a fresh take on Taiwan's turbulent past

    26/02/2024 Duração: 09min

    Taiwan may be a democracy today but it wasn't always this way. Writer and historian Mark O'Neill spent some years in Taipei during the 1980s -- he covers that period in his latest book in a chat with I-C-R-T's Hope Ngo.

  • From researching policy to making laws: the DPP's Chen Kuan Ting

    19/02/2024 Duração: 09min

    As CEO of Taiwan NextGen Foundation, Chen Kuan Ting dreamt of "empowering the next generation of Taiwan's leaders". Today he has a chance of turning his vision into actionable plans as a member of the incoming Legislative Yuan. He speaks to I-C-R-T's Hope Ngo about his legislative agenda.

  • The Political Journey of the TPP's Cynthia Wu (吳欣盈)

    05/02/2024 Duração: 09min

    Cynthia Wu is a successful businesswoman and philanthropist who wears many hats. Most recently, she had been at the Legislative Yuan for just over a year before she was asked to be the running mate of TPP Vice-Presidential Candidate Ko Wen-je. Wu tells I-C-R-T's Hope Ngo what drew her to politics, and what she hopes to achieve as she re-enters civilian life.

  • Keeping Taiwan's Indigenous Languages Alive: Apay Ai-yu Tang (湯愛玉)

    01/02/2024 Duração: 10min

    Taiwan's Indigenous languages have gone through centuries of social upheaval and marginalisation, But many of these languages still persist in Indigenous communities - and so do the people determined to save, document and revitalise them. In this episode, guest host Aspen Beilharz talks to Apay Ai-yu Tang, linguist and Associate Professor at National Dong Hwa University, about her work to ensure the survival of her ancestral language Truku Seediq.

  • Planning signature events with Chin Chin Weddings' Lin Ching Ching (林青蓁)

    29/01/2024 Duração: 11min

    Building a successful wedding and event planning company can't be easy, but it's all in a day's work for Lin Ching Ching of Taipei's Chin Chin Weddings. Hear how the self-confessed "farm girl" built a thriving business by doing something young men and women can dream about -- owning a high-end event planning firm with a designer client roster.

  • After the Elections: Sara Newland maps out scenarios for the incoming government

    17/01/2024 Duração: 09min

    The dust has settled and the 2024 Presidential and Legislative Elections are behind us. What can we expect of the incoming administration, and the new Legislative Yuan? I-C-R-T's Hope Ngo speaks to Sara Newland, Assistant Professor of Government at Smith College and a scholar of local politics in China and Taiwan.

  • Voices from Abroad: How do overseas Taiwanese REALLY feel about the 2024 polls?

    10/01/2024 Duração: 10min

    There may not be absentee voting in Taiwan, but that won't keep members of the island's overseas community from weighing in on the elections which happen on January 13. In this special report for ICRT, Keith Menconi reveals how San Francisco-based Taiwanese feel about the polls.

  • 2023: The Year That Was in Taiwan Foreign Relations with Kharis Templeman

    25/12/2023 Duração: 09min

    2023 saw the end of COVID restrictions and new iterations of existing trade ties with Western allies. Stanford University Taiwan specialist KharisTempleman looks at the year that was in the area of foreign relations.

  • YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen gives his take on Taiwan's startup scene

    19/12/2023 Duração: 07min

    YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen rode out most of the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan. The (literal) move gave him the opportunity to study Taiwan's startup ecosystem up close. Has anything changed since that time? He shared his thoughts with I-C-R-T's Hope Ngo in an interview that took place last summer in this encore presentation.

  • Zea’s Joaquin Elizondo on Creating a Latin American Dining Vibe in Taipei

    11/12/2023 Duração: 07min

    What does it take to introduce a cuisine that not many people may be too familiar with, and turn that into the cornerstone of a Michelin-starred offer? Zea's chef de cuisine Joaquin Elizondo talks about what brought him to Taipei, and the role his restaurant plays in bringing the flavors of Latin America to the island.

  • Taiwanese football’s “Goal Machine” tells his story: Ange Samuel Kouamé

    04/12/2023 Duração: 12min

    Hailing from Ivory Coast, Ange Samuel Kouamé has made his name in Taiwanese football with spectacular goal scoring - and in 2023, he became naturalized as a Taiwanese citizen. He talks with guest host Aspen Beilharz about his story, and how he overcame challenges to reach a footballer’s dream of playing on the world stage.

  • A COVID Retrospective of Taiwan's Food and Hospitality Industries

    27/11/2023 Duração: 07min

    With most of life returning to normal, few of us remember that it was just a year ago in November that the Taiwan government began easing its COVID-related restrictions. I-C-R-T's Hope Ngo looks back at the conversations she's had with personalities within the food and restaurant industry, as well as hospitality space to ask them what they remember about business in the time of the coronavirus, even if many of us might have forgotten.

  • Bed and Breakfast owner Wayne Wang Spills the Secret of Enjoying Sun Moon Lake

    20/11/2023 Duração: 08min

    Bed and Breakfast owner Wayne Wang has spent nearly all his life living in and exploring Sun Moon Lake. He tells I-C-R-T's Hope Ngo why he remains entranced by the area and how best to explore the lake, which international media once described as one of the most beautiful bike trails in the world.

  • Taking Language Learning Beyond The Textbook: Peter Sutton

    15/11/2023 Duração: 08min

    In 2016, Peter Sutton left a successful career in international finance to create Woodpecker Learning – a language learning app with a unique methodology, informed by his own experience learning Chinese. Guest host Aspen Beilharz talks to Peter about a life of travel and innovative learning design.

  • Author Kevin Chen reflects on his award-winning "Ghost Town"

    06/11/2023 Duração: 09min

    Award-winning novelist Kevin Chen sits down with I-C-R-T's Tim Berge to talk about life's twists that led him to write "Ghost Town", which won the prestigious Taiwan Literature Award for Books by the National Museum of Taiwan Literature and the Golden Tripod Award. It was also was one of the New York Times' most anticipated books of Fall 2022; was selected by Library Journal for their Best of World Literature 2022; and was longlisted for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize.

  • Chien Chien Lu: Peace, Love and Jazz

    30/10/2023 Duração: 14min

    Award-winning jazz vibraphonist Chien Chien Lu has experienced remarkable success in both the US and Taiwan, but her path to this point was anything but straightforward. She started her career in classical music, and made a radical change to turn herself toward a new, inspired direction. Guest host Aspen Beilharz talks with Lu about her journey in music and what drives her now as an artist.

  • Gene Chung Brews up a Storm with All Good Gene's Kombucha

    23/10/2023 Duração: 08min

    It might be difficult to find a link between a traditional condiment like soy sauce with a western style beverage like kombucha. Gene Chung shows I-C-R-T's Hope Ngo how he bridged the gap between the traditional condiment and the trendy beverage; he also makes the case for taking the lessons learned from working at his family's soy sauce company (which involves fermentation) to make his personal brand of kombucha (which also involves fermentation).

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