HK gives Taiwan rep office a middle finger over “one China”–Taiwan Report News Brief transcript
Headlines Two people who recently returned from the Philippines have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases in Taiwan since the start of the pandemic to 454. Foreign nationals who entered Taiwan as visitors on or before March 21 will be eligible to obtain another 30-day extension of stay, given […]
DPP seizes back the podium after a melee–Taiwan Report News Brief transcript
Headlines Taiwan is still full of reminders of the authoritarian era under Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and his son Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), with a total of 1,814 sites, monuments and office spaces named in memory of them, an average of one for every 20km2 in the nation, a Transitional Justice Commission report said.Excluding the 227 statues […]
ICRT Central Taiwan news report–transcript
World’s largest renewable energy PPA The world’s largest renewable energy Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CPPA) has been signed in Taiwan between TSMC and Ørsted for the 920MW Greater Changhua 2b & 4 offshore wind farm.A renewable corporate PPA is a deal where an energy producer sells power to a business at a fixed price over […]
Taiwan’s govt: Avoid China, HK and Macau–Taiwan Report News Brief transcript
Headlines Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) on Thursday directed that the government’s COVID-19 relief funds be expanded by adding an additional budget of approximately NT$200 billion (US$6.79 billion).Su directed the allocation of the additional budget to help businesses affected by the pandemic and fund the procurement of disease prevention supplies and the purchase, research and development […]
Support for KMT hits all-time low–Taiwan Report News Brief transcript
Headlines: A warning system developed to monitor volcanic activity in northern Taiwan and guide disaster prevention measures will be launched by the end of this year, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB).The system will target the Datun volcano system in Taipei and Turtle Island in Yilan, which are active volcanoes, defined as a volcano […]
Sharp spike in Taiwanese identity–Taiwan Report News Brief transcript
Headlines: After the first round for preordering the stimulus vouchers began on Wednesday, nearly 1 million eligible people from underprivileged groups on Thursday began receiving a subsidy to purchase vouchers in their postal savings account, the Department of Social Assistance and Social Work said.The NT$1,000 subsidy is for them to buy NT$3,000 worth of vouchers, […]
Han fans revenge plans grow and Pingtung is headless–Taiwan Report News Brief transcript
Taipower union to protest Taichung City Government According to a report in local newspaper China Times, the Taiwan Power Labor Union has voted to hold an encirclement protest around Taichung City Hall.The 27,000 person strong union says it will be no problem to attract over 10,000 people.They accused the Taichung City Government of ignoring their […]
KMT occupies the legislature–Taiwan Report News Brief transcript
Consumer confidence rises, a bit Taiwan’s consumer confidence index (CCI) rose 3.9 points to 68.77 for June, ending four consecutive months of decline.The index rebounded for the first time since February amid the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, and its six confidence sub-indexes all rose.However, it should be noted that the rise is small, and […]
Naked provocations in Copenhagen–Taiwan Report News Brief transcript
Business updates Taiwan has moved up five places from last year to 11th in the latest annual world competitiveness ranking released by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD).The global top 10 was led by Singapore, followed by Denmark, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Sweden, Norway, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. […]
Rallies, threats to the President, and who will run in Kaohsiung?–Taiwan Report News Brief transcript
Business updates Taiwan’s largest IT trade exhibition, COMPUTEX, has been cancelled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Organizers plan to hold an online version of the show instead. Average monthly take-home wages decreased 0.41 percent month-on-month to NT$42,132 in April due to effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the fourth consecutive monthly decline. The average […]
