On this week's Jukebox Republic, listen to songs on how to comfort someone who's new in town.  

On Jukebox Republic, a listen to how a Taiwan university helps the serious stray animal population in Guam and songs about "nomads", "wanderers", and "homeless".

On this week's Jukebox Republic, a look at the talk of the town: a TV comedy series that won the audience award at the Taipei Film Festival about mother-daughter relationships and their separate dating lives.

On Jukebox Republic, Shirley Lin discusses an article about an urban warfare workshop that took place outside of Taipei. Would you take up arms to defend your country?

Tanya Chua from Singapore won four awards at the recent Golden Melody Awards, often called the GRAMMYs of the Chinese-speaking world. On Jukebox Republic, listen to songs from Tanya's winning album DEPART. 

On Jukebox Republic, you get to share the joy of a 13-year old girl who is the first Taiwanese-American to win at the popular US culinary TV show MasterChef Junior and then hear songs of "joy".

On Jukebox Republic, you learn why Taiwanese women don't like to be called Auntie and how food trucks offering free Central American and Filipino dishes were a hit.

For a change of pace, this week's Jukebox Republic plays classical music performances by the Heathcliff Trio, who just won first prize at the recent International Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition in Poland. Shirley Lin interviews the trio composed of Taiwaneses violinist Ashley Tong, British cellist Sebastian Kolin, and Danish pianist Jonathan Siahaan. 

On Jukebox Republic, you get to hear about a craftsman who loves to use a magnifying glass to make the smallest possible kind of art using gold or grains of rice.

On Jukebox Republic, hear the good news of remote telemedicine consultations in Taiwan for those COVID patients who can't go to the hospitals while in quarantine. And hear songs to lighten up your spirit in the midst of the misery that COVID has brought to all of our lives.