Taiwan Talk

We welcome to the show the Director of Taiwan¡¦s National Space Organization Chang Kuei-Hsiang to learn about two Taiwan made satellites set to launch within the next 12 months.

CPBL Director of International Affairs James Young joins the Morning Show to tell us about all the action coming up as the league gets into full swing with its 27th season now under way.

We speak to Taipei Times Features Writer Han Cheung about his new column, Taiwan in Time, which provides a weekly look at important moments in Taiwan's history.

We last spoke to this group in 2013, when they were just beginning their ambitious plan to recruit and train teachers to address shortages in Taiwan's rural areas. We check back in, and also discuss the root causes of education inequality in Taiwan.

The hosts for the popular online Mandarin learning site ChinesePod make their second appearance on the Morning Show to discuss their new educational series aimed at making pronunciation easier for Chinese learners. We goof off a bit too.

The Morning Show's favorite international business guru, Steven Parker, stops by to teach us the ins and outs of professional networking.

We Speak to Tony Coolidge, the founder of the American Basketball English Camp, a program that aims to make English learning more accessible in Taiwan by bringing it to the basketball court.

We invite Taipei Times features reporter Dana Ter onto the show to take us on a tour of Taiwan's burgeoning craft beer scene.

With the Taiwan International Orchid Show in Tainan wrapping up this week, we speak with the exhibitions's vice president, Professor Wen-Huei Chen, to learn how Taiwan came to be such a powerhouse in the field of orchid cultivation.

On this live segment, we get schooled on how to make a proper cup of tea the Taiwan way by Nathan Davis of The Tea Syndicate, a group working to let more people in on the pleasures of Gongfu Cha.