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How does a TV newsroom decide what leads the show? At the Assignment Desk, we take you behind the scenes for a closer look at the day’s top stories and how our team is covering them.
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Reporting from Palau, Taiwan’s Singles Crisis, and What’s Ahead (opens the original)
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Reporter Tiffany Wong is in Palau, where she sat down with President Surangel Whipps Jr. and is covering the Pacific Islands Forum. Assignment Editor Chia Chang walks us through the historical significance of Taiwan’s participation and why it matters for the region. We also look at why young Taiwanese are increasingly choosing to stay single and how that could pose a national security risk. Then, we look ahead to the stories our team plans to pursue through the end of the year. -- Hosting provid
Budget Battles and AI Choices (opens the original)
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Stacy Yang takes the assignment editor’s chair this week for the penultimate episode of Assignment Desk, unpacking the political wrangling behind next year’s government spending plans. Plus: cash handouts fueled by a booming tech sector, how AI is reshaping the choices students make about their futures, and a look at TaiwanPlus’s two new correspondents reporting from London and Sydney. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
Farewell to Han Kuang, Hello to Friday (opens the original)
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Yvonne Yang joins Charlie Storrar to look back on a week and a half’s coverage of the Han Kuang military exercises with a shout-out to our hardworking defense desk reporters. Taiwan’s digital affairs ministry responds to reports of a cyberattack in July by hackers using a publicly available AI model. A new US tariffs on drone imports spell bad news for Taiwan – or do they? And St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Godwin Friday is in Taiwan to celebrate 45 years of diplomatic relations.
Han Kuang Exercise 2026 Gets Underway (opens the original)
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Assignment editor Stacy Hsu joins Charlie Storrar to talk about the main focus of TaiwanPlus news coverage this week, the arrival of this year’s Han Kuang Exercise, Taiwan’s largest annual military drills. While this year’s drills have been touted as largely unscripted in order to better prepare the country’s armed forces for more realistic battle scenarios, Stacy discusses the challenges of sending out reporters to cover simulations that are only announced to the media the evening before. Plus,
No More LNG From PNG (opens the original)
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Yvonne Yang is back as this week’s assignment editor, with a look at how Taiwan has fared on the diplomatic rollercoaster this week; well, in terms of relations with Lithuania; with Papua New Guinea and Morocco…not so much. Plus, Taiwan gears up for this year’s edition of the Han Kuang military exercise, and could it be the end of the line for the pro-Beijing Chinese Unification Promotion Party? -- Hosting provided by SoundOn
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