Taiwan Daily News Podcast — June 11, 2026

In this episode: A woman driving her family from a funeral to a post-funeral meal died along with three passengers in a head-on collision with a truck in Taoyuan's Shin-wu District; Central Bank Governor Yang Jin-long declared an end to housing credit controls triggering an immediate rally in construction stocks; The DPP formally nominated Zhubei Mayor Zheng Chaofang for Hsinchu County Magistrate with President William Lai personally endorsing the candidate; The Army's first HIMARS tactical live-fire exercise on the west coast saw four rockets fail to launch due to a system anomaly at Ja-hai Beach; Heavy rain triggered a blackout for over one hundred and forty thousand households in Taichung's Sha-loo, Woo-chee, and Dah-ja districts; TSMC signed a fifty-year land lease with Tainan for the Southern Taiwan Science Park expansion cementing the city as the core of Taiwan's wafer production.. Find the text versions of these and other stories at TheFormosan.com. Please like, subscribe, and share this podcast with anyone you think will find it useful. Send your comments, suggestions, or advertising inquiries to [email protected]