Taiwan Daily News Podcast

DPP nominates Wu Shu-jin for Penghu magistrate; Nuclear Plant 2 corruption probe expands; F-16V landing gear strikes lamp post; Afternoon thunderstorms continue across Taiwan; G7 opposes unilateral Taiwan Strait status quo changes; TAIEX rebounds 68 points. 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]

In this episode: EVA Air fined six hundred thousand New Taiwan Dollars after investigation finds flight attendant died following sick duty on Taiwan-Milan flight; MLB sees first ever Taiwan pitcher-batter matchup as Teng Kai-wei faces Lee Hao-yu in historic Astros-Tigers game; China pressures Kenya to revoke Taiwan's Ocean Conference invitation and detain a female scholar for over twenty hours at Nairobi airport; Coast Guard launches two point one billion New Taiwan Dollar drone surveillance network to counter Chinese gray-zone maritime threats; Plum rain retreats just in time for Dragon Boat Festival with sunny hot weather forecast for the holiday weekend; Tie-ex rallies four hundred and twelve points as foreign investors extend buying streak ahead of futures settlement. 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]

In this episode: Two professors at National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology were sentenced to prison in Taiwan's first academic degree-selling corruption case; Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu will lead a cross-party delegation of lawmakers to the United States from June 21 to 27; Meta's Threads platform mass-suspended Taiwanese users due to an age-verification glitch that the company described as a technical error; Taiwan's first newly built F-16V Block 70 fighter jet was spotted in Texas with external fuel tanks, suggesting a ferry flight to Taiwan is imminent; Taiwan's National Security Bureau launched a secure online portal encouraging Chinese citizens to provide intelligence to Taiwanese authorities; A tropical disturbance near Guam may develop into a typhoon as Taiwan's plum rain season boosts reservoirs past key milestones; The TAIEX index surged 1,227 points as a US-Iran peace deal ignited a global market rally. 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]

In this episode: KMT Chair Cheng Li-wen's visit to Washington faces controversy after US State Department assigns a desk officer rather than a deputy assistant secretary, an unprecedented protocol downgrade for a Taiwanese party leader; A five-year-old girl in Pingtung was sexually assaulted nine times by a neighbor, but the perpetrator died before trial, ending the criminal case without justice; Taiwan's Ministry of Education faces backlash over a high school service plan containing language about coordinating with military authorities, which critics say prepares students for war; Taiwan's offshore wind industry reaches five hundred turbines and ranks fifth globally, achieving in under a decade what took European countries twenty to thirty years; Taiwan's Foreign Ministry condemns China for claiming Mongolian President Khurelsukh affirmed the One China Principle, calling it an attempt to spread the narrative through third countries; Heavy rain advisories issued for eight counties as a plum rain front combines with southwesterly winds, with the heaviest rain expected Monday in central and southern Taiwan.. 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]

In this episode: A school bus driver with HIV posed as a spirit medium and sexually assaulted nine students over three years in central Taiwan, with five victims contracting the virus; Three senior executives at Taiwan Cement Corporation's green energy subsidiary have been detained for allegedly collecting over fifty million New Taiwan Dollars in contractor kickbacks; Taipei Mayor Jiang Wan-ahn has doubled down on his call to abolish the Control Yuan, saying his position would not change even if his own party regains the presidency in twenty twenty-eight; Guo-min-dung Vice Chairman Zhang Rong-gong sparked backlash after declaring at the Strait Forum in Shar-men that Taiwanese people are also Chinese people; Taiwan's plum rain season is expected to conclude by June seventeenth as the island transitions into summer typhoon season with hotter conditions ahead.. 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]

In this episode: A massive factory fire at an industrial waste plant in Kaohsiung's Banzhou Industrial Park sent thick black smoke across three districts, prompting air quality warnings and a fine of NTD 5 million against the operator; TSMC and seven suppliers broke ground on a 28-hectare semiconductor supply chain zone in the Pingtung Science Park, with President Lai Ching-te attending the ceremony alongside Chairman C.C. Wei; Taiwan's CDC reported a hospital-acquired dengue fever cluster at Kaohsiung Minsheng Hospital with five confirmed cases of dengue virus type 2, and deployed a mobile epidemic prevention team; Two Chinese government vessels entered Taiwan's prohibited waters around Taiping Island in the South China Sea for the first time, drawing strong condemnation from Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Eswatini's prime minister is reportedly pushing to switch diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China just weeks after President Lai visited, though Taiwan's foreign minister dismissed the reports and said ties remain solid.. 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]

In this episode: President William Lai nominated twenty-nine Control Yuan members with opposition vowing to block confirmation; Lai declared zero tolerance for drug driving pushing for tougher penalties including death for etomidate trafficking; A drug-impaired driver crashed into two pedestrians during a police chase in Taoyuan leaving both in critical condition; A Taipei public kindergarten was ordered to sing a Chinese Communist Party centennial song sparking a MAC investigation; Plum rain replenished reservoirs across Taiwan with Shihmen nearing eighty percent capacity; The US House defense bill proposed two billion US Dollars for Taiwan defense. 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]

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]

In this episode: A gas explosion at a Hsinchu bento shop killed an elderly couple and affected fifty-seven households with President William Lai pledging full support; A Zhang-hwa judge sparked national outrage after releasing two drug-driving suspects without bail in less than a week earning the nickname Buddha-hearted judge; A construction director was found alive after being swept away by floodwaters in Hualien's Ma-thai-an River for sixteen harrowing hours; Five Chinese government ships entered Taiwan's eastern waters and falsely claimed jurisdiction over foreign cargo vessels prompting a strong condemnation from the Mainland Affairs Council; A plum rain front dumped torrential rain across Taiwan triggering school closures while delivering critical replenishment to reservoirs including Dzeng-wen and Wu-shan-tow; TAIEX surged over one thousand two hundred points in a sharp rebound but two stocks triggered default settlements totaling one hundred and seventy-four million New Taiwan Dollars.. 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]

In this episode: Atayal legislator Kao Chin Su-mei was indicted for embezzling NTD 7.87 million in public funds with prosecutors seeking twelve and a half years in prison; KMT Chair Cheng Li-wen faces accusations of meeting Chinese Communist Party United Front officials during her visit to the United States; An 83-year-old man drowned at Taipei's Da-an Sports Center despite an AI anti-drowning system that failed to detect him in a pool corner; A powerful plum rain front triggered school and work closures across mountain townships as sixteen counties were placed under heavy rain advisories; South Korean President Lee Jae-myung warned that Taiwan faces a greater war risk than the Korean Peninsula at his first-anniversary press conference; TAIEX suffered its worst single-day point drop in history plunging nearly two thousand seven hundred points as five brokerages crashed under the volume.. 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]

Police fire 16 shots in Tucheng drug chase leaving 2 officers injured. Actor Fu Zichun dies of acute blood cancer at 46. San-Ying MRT line passes final inspection, targets mid-2026 launch. NZ cruise passengers complete 42-day hantavirus monitoring — all clear. China deploys 4 massive ships to Taiwan's eastern waters.

In this episode: A drug-impaired driver rammed a police chief in Changhua County and a court let him walk free; The Formosa Dreamers captured their first Taiwan Professional Basketball League championship after a stunning Game 7 comeback; Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen departed on a ten-day diplomatic mission to Europe; DPP legislator Shen Bo-yang proposed direct capital-to-capital exchanges between Taipei and Beijing; Taiwan is bracing for up to eight days of torrential plum rain; TAIEX futures suffered a historic collapse of over three thousand points in the night session. 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]