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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. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, our assignment editors share the careful decisions and considerations that shape fair and balanced coverage of Taiwan for a global audience.--Hosting provided by SoundOn
TaiwanPlus News hosts Assignment Desk, a news show with 52 episodes published.
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
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 yea
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 mu
Assignment editor Stacy Hsu talks Charlie Storrar through the main happenings of the week, from tensions at the ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting following another clash between China and the Philippines in the South Chin
Stacy Hsu joins Andrew and Charlie on the Assignment Desk in what’s been a tricky week for Taiwan on the diplomatic front, with the new Lithuanian prime minister saying the 2021 decision to allow a Taiwanese trade office
When a typhoon approaches Taiwan, how does a newsroom prepare? Assignment editor Yvonne Yang takes you behind the scenes of TaiwanPlus' coverage, from deciding where to deploy reporter Irene Lin for live reports to balan
From China's new ethnic unity law and Taiwan's new workplace anti-bullying protections to contactless metro payments, July 1 brought several significant changes. It also marked the 20th anniversary of the Taiwan Broadcas
Assignment Editor Chia Chang takes us through coverage of the RIMPAC exercise now underway off Hawaii and Taiwan’s five-day combat readiness drills closer to home. Meanwhile, another kind of drill is being planned to hel
From COMPUTEX and Jensen Huang's Taiwan tour to flood-hit communities in eastern Taiwan and political reporting in Washington and New York, TaiwanPlus reporters have had a busy month. Laurel Stewart takes us behind the s
Assignment editor Laurel Stewart walks us through the top stories of the week in Taiwan, including the 17-year prison sentence handed down to Taiwan People’s Party founder and former Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je for corruption
In this week’s Assignment Desk, Jeremy Olivier talks us through the takeaways for Taiwan from Nvidia’s annual AI conference in California. Plus, a new US intelligence report concludes China does not plan to invade Taiwan
Taiwan thought it had negotiated a solution to US tariffs in the form of its trade deal with Washington. But this week the country finds itself the target of a Section 301 investigation over alleged failure to prevent fo
How do you cover the World Baseball Classic when you don’t have the broadcast rights? Get creative. For this Assignment Desk, we talk with assignment editor Chia Chang, who walks us through how we sent one reporter to Ja
Assignment editor Chia Chang talks us through the newsroom’s coverage of two of the week’s biggest stories: the signing of a long-awaited trade deal with the US and the 20-year prison sentence that a Hong Kong court hand
A newly seated lawmaker is putting Taiwan’s citizenship rules under the spotlight. On today’s Assignment Desk, we look at the first legislator known to still hold PRC citizenship — and the questions her case is raising a
Chia Chang picks over the events of the week with Charlie Storrar, including TaiwanPlus News’s field coverage of the military’s spring drills, an opposition counterproposal on defense spending and talks with the US beari
Assignment editor Laurel Stewart joins Andrew and Charlie for a look back on the week’s events. Taiwan’s recently announced trade deal with the US and its prospects for ratification have taken center stage domestically,
After weeks of rumors, a long-teased trade deal finally materialized on Thursday, bringing Taiwan’s tariff rate down to 15% in return for US$500 billion in investment. Chip giant TSMC looks set to double its existing inv
Jeremy Olivier breaks down a dramatic first full week of the year, from concerns sparked by US actions in Venezuela to US President Donald Trump’s latest comments on Taiwan in a New York Times interview. We also touch on
Assignment editor Chia Chang discusses the newsroom’s planned coverage for the year ahead, with Taiwan on the cusp of officially becoming a super-aged society. In diplomacy, the Pacific Island Forum may offer opportuniti
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