With sprawling 1,750-acre grounds and a record-setting 12,000-foot runway, CCK stood as America’s most significant Taiwan base during the Vietnam War. At times host…

Taiwan voters will decide whether to restart the recently decommissioned Ma’anshan Nuclear Power Plant on Sat. Aug. 23, 2025. Nuclear power in Taiwan is a very controversial topic.

In the summer of 1972, Chiang Kai-shek vanished. He missed Double Ten parades. However, Madame Chiang (Soong Mei-ling), and the step-son she loathed (future preside…

Taiwanese pilots flew combat jets in Saudi uniforms over Arabian skies? Yes. This week, learn about what may seem like an unusual friendship: the close ties between…

Some people bought Tamagotchis in the '90s. Others? They paid birds to predict their future. In this week’s episode, we take a glimpse into Taiwan’s wild obsession …

Taiwan’s deadliest school shooting was the Lixing High School Massacre of 1962.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Often called “China’s Titanic,” the 1949 sinking of the Taiping claimed over 1,000 lives as desperate refugees fled Shanghai for Taiwan. Forty-five years later, ano…

This early part of the twentieth century was filled with revolutions and wars (including the First World War). Formosa, however, was a relatively stable Japanese co…

Taiwan's birthrates have fallen to lows that could see the pop. at just 15 mil. by 2070.

Next week we’ll kick off Season Five of Formosa Files! A huge thank you to the Frank C. Chen Foundation for its continued support of the program; without it, this p…

Sing: Gongxi, Gongxi, Gongxi Ni, hey, (repeat ad nauseum).  Sin Nien Kwai Le (as they might write it in Kaohsiung). We hope everyone is enjoying the long holida…

After serving eight months behind bars for libel, Chen Shui-bian is released in February 1987, and enters the fray of a newly-liberalized political landscape. In 19…

With a new intro and ending, this is a rerelease of one of our more popular episodes: the story of the decision by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter (1924-2024) to…

THE DUTCH IN TAIWAN - 400 YEARS - PART 7 Eryk visits the Tainan home of Koxinga's Chief of General Staff Chen Yonghua 陳永華 (or Chen Ze 陳澤). #taiwan #tainan #taiwantravel #taiwanesearchitecture #taiw...

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400 Years: Dutch Formosa - part two: Roughly 80% of Dutch (or other European) men settling in Taiwan as part of the Dutch East India Company's (VOC) presence o…