Taiwan+ (TaiwanPlus) is an independent media organization funded by the people of Taiwan, and is the nation’s first English-language video news and programming platform for an international audience.
Headquartered in Asia’s most progressive and transparent media environment, Taiwan+ is committed to truth, neutrality, and diversity in its storytelling. We offer multimedia coverage of regional issues and world affairs, telling the stories of Taiwan in a way that resonates globally with a balanced regional perspective to international news.
Taiwan+ aims to become a leading voice on topics important to Taiwan and a platform reflecting our shared values of democracy and innovation that inspire and empower.
Taiwan+, backed by NTD$775 million in government funding, will broadcast content online focusing on news, as well as features about Taiwan, from food and tourism to culture and technology.
Taiwan launched a new English-language news and media streaming platform on Monday aiming to give it a greater voice on the world stage and help to tackle Beijing’s “squeeze” of the Chinese-claimed island on the world stage.
Wonder if this will be accessible to us English speakers in Taiwan.
Somebody should submit the success story of how long term resident foreigners have finally been given equal access to online services in Taiwan by the new ARC Number format which has been unified with Taiwan ID numbers. Conduct some interviews with happy clappy foreign residents clutching their new ARC cards after coming out of a bank branch…
So far those videos look really boring. But I guess I’m not their target audience. I don’t like propaganda channels in general but there might be a case for it if it helps get the word out.
The White Eyes was established in 2004. Their music is a combination of punk, dance, retro style. Vocalist Gao Xiao Gao is always dressed in tights on the stage and stands with her legs spread while playing guitar.
It’s launch day for TaiwanPlus TV Channel, and we are deeply honored to have President Tsai Ing-wen, Executive Yuan President Su Tseng-chang, and Minister of Culture Lee Yung-te all here to celebrate this milestone.
📰 Taiwan launches English language TV channel to give it more international punch
TAIPEI, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Taiwan launched its first English-language news, lifestyle and entertainment television channel on Monday to give it a bigger voice internationally at a time China when is squeezing the island’s footprint and seeking to assert sovereignty.
The government-backed TaiwanPlus began operations last year as a mostly online streaming platform and has been strongly supported by President Tsai Ing-wen.
Speaking at the launch ceremony, Tsai said the channel has already raised Taiwan’s international profile and would help as the island forges ever closer ties with “countries that share our core values of freedom and democracy.”
“The stories of Taiwan should be shared with the world,” she said. “With more and more people around the world taking an interest in Taiwan it is more important than ever that we have a platform to bring Taiwan to the international community.”
China, which claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, is increasingly active in English-language media, conveying the ruling Communist Party’s views to an outside audience, especially via state television’s English-language news channel China Global Television Network, or CGTN.
China is also pressuring Taiwan’s international space, including forcing foreign companies to refer to it as being part of China on their websites and routinely carrying out military drills near the island.
Culture Minister Lee Yung-te told reporters that Taiwan needed to be able to combat what China says about the island and put the Taiwanese viewpoint out.
“Internationally our voice has not been fully heard. China continually disseminates that Taiwan is part of China, and lots of people believe that. You tell them that’s not the case, and they ask, why?” Lee added. “So in the future we’ll be using Taiwan’s own media to explain to the international community why that’s not so.”
The television channel is so far only available in Taiwan, but Lee said they were eyeing launching in the United States in the next six months.
Taiwan already has a handful of domestic English-language media, the most prominent of which is the newspaper the Taipei Times, founded in 1999 and published by the mass circulation Liberty Times.
Clicked on the livestream, realized it was just nature documentaries with English subtitles, clicked off. I was hoping it would just be like a news channel but in English, and I could listen to it whilst I worked.
