Taiwan Report News Brief (04-04-2020) Older drivers and love from Italy
Coronavirus news, including more details on subsidies for businesses and the announcement if you don't wear your mask on public transportation, you're going to get hit with a hefty fine. With the nati...
4 Apr 202010min
Taiwan Report News Brief (04-03-2020) Poll, pet police and who's on and off Taiwan's goody list
More details on government steps to contain the coronavirus and more details on the huge N$1.05 trillion package, lawmakers push for pet policy, and the KMT lawmaker at the center of a sovereignty spa...
3 Apr 202020min
Taiwan Report News Brief (04-02-2020) Tsai's clever social distancing of Taiwan from China
Several big news items on the coronavirus, including a call for companies that cannot practice social distancing to shut, restaurants re-arrange their tables and chairs and baseball will start the sea...
2 Apr 202014min
Taiwan Report News Brief (04-01-2020) Su lays down conditions for passport name change
Debate on adultery law to proceed. Railways to soon be an electric avenue. Transgender activists call for change. Migrant workers tired of living in fire traps. Plenty of news on the coronavirus, ...
1 Apr 202019min
Taiwan Report News Brief (03-31-2020) CECC seems worried, rape, power struggle and Burger King
Big show today! The CECC says they are looking to strengthen measures against the coronavirus, are they worried about something? Hao Po-tsun has passed away. Johnny Chiang meets Wu Sz-huai, they ag...
30 Mar 202020min
Current Affairs Taiwan 台灣時事 #38 (03-29-2020) Doing Hard Time in Quarantine
Michael Turton (麥哲恩) and co-host Courtney Donovan Smith (石東文) actually prefer social distancing by avoiding each other in yet another remote podcast episode. This week Donovan talks about doing hard t...
29 Mar 202045min
Taiwan Report News Brief (03-28-2020) WHO head blames Taiwan for his woes
Updates on the Wuhan coronavirus, including info on how to find out if you can get subsidies and benefits, a bad BBC report, and privacy concerns going forward. Premier Su says "science" will guide p...
28 Mar 202020min
Taiwan Report News Brief (03-27-2020) The police visited me 5 times during my quarantine
Now that everyone involved is safe, sound and free, I can go public with it: I was quarantined. The police showed up five times at my door thinking I had broken quarantine. I hadn't. A former judge an...
27 Mar 202015min
