We interview Watchout.tw founder Dr. Liulin Wei, about internet media in Taiwan. Since the interview, Dr. Liulin has been accused of embezzlement and has been expelled from Watchout. As always, we leave our audience to decide.
A Taoist temple priest and two young entrepreneurs are promoting more public, civic discourse on sex, so that sex is not simply a private, voyeuristic taboo, but rather an integral part of social well-being.
One year after the Sunflower Movement we talk with Ho Chao-ti, the producer of a documentary on the movement, to take stock of this momentous event in Taiwan’s history, and what it means for Taiwan going forward.
We speak with Prof. Wen-ling Tu of Citizens of the Earth Taiwan, on how Taiwan’s development has been skewed towards unregulated industrialization, and what are the most hopeful and worrying environmental trends for the next five to ten years.
After the historical 2014 local elections in Taiwan, we check in with Kharis Templeman of Stanford’s Taiwan Democracy Project and Denny Weng of Wesleyan University about what to expect in the future for Taiwan’s political development.
We ask Mike Lee, the founding chairman of Entrepeneur+, a non-profit helping startups, about the state of entrepreneurship in Taiwan today, and how they see the current economic debates going on there.