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Ticket scalping has long frustrated fans. Can blockchain and Web3 finally offer a fix?

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🎙️ Weining Hung (9Kick, LUCfest) and Henry Chen (FANSI GO)
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Surge pricing has arrived in Taiwan’s live music scene. But ticket prices that fluctuate by the minute are dividing fans and raising questions about fairness in a booming concert market.

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🎙️ Weining Hung (9Kick, LUCfest) and Henry Chen (FANSI GO)
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Getting concert tickets has become a full-contact sport: fast clicks, long queues and steep prices. But for your favorite artist, how far would you go?

📺 youtu.be/qco_9pGWjzk
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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After transforming data storage with its single-chip USB flash controller, Phison Electronics is turning to AI.

Its new platform, aiDAPTIV+, embodies Founder and CEO Pua Khein Seng’s vision of bringing affordable computing to every student and nation.

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November 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The corporate slogans splashed across Taiwan Pride may be light on activism, but they reveal who’s paying the bills. With public funding dwindling, corporate sponsors have become essential to keeping Asia’s biggest LGBTQ+ celebration alive.

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November 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Europe’s race to secure rare earths has begun, but can it succeed without China? In its biggest resource test yet, the EU is stepping up as export bans tighten and costs soar.

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🎙️ Matej Šimalčík (CEIAS) / @matejsimalcik.bsky.social / @ceias-eu.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Resource-rich Australia is emerging as a contender to challenge China’s rare earth dominance. As Beijing tightens exports and Washington scrambles to secure supplies, Canberra aims to be the game changer.

🎙️ Mohan Yellishetty (Monash University)
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November 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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As China consolidates its global influence, Taiwan has carved out a different path — rejecting checkbook diplomacy in favor of partnerships built on expertise and shared growth.

Can it sustain Taiwan’s dwindling circle of allies?

🎙️ Mandy Liao (National Taiwan University)
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November 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Somaliland is the world’s largest self-governing territory without official statehood — and it’s aligning with Taiwan, not China, to build its economy and gain international standing.

🎙️ Somaliland’s representative to Taiwan, Ambassador Mahmoud Adam Jama Galaal
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November 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Every new tech shift has redrawn the music industry. Now, it’s AI’s turn. Experts unpack how artificial intelligence and blockchain could transform copyright, royalties and creative ownership.

🎙️ Anand Roy (Wubble AI) & Bill Dafflon (Wondera)
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October 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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AI is rewriting the rules of music — but not in the way you might think. While skeptics worry, our guests see opportunity: a chance to make music more inclusive, creative and fair for everyone.

🎙️ Anand Roy (Wubble AI) & Bill Dafflon (Wondera)
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October 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Most people see golf as bad for the planet. Delphine Tseng sees it differently. She’s an ecologist who believes golf courses can become unlikely allies for wildlife and conservation.

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October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Serial entrepreneurs are betting that the next global tech giant could emerge from Taipei. But some entrepreneurs quietly wonder whether success might come faster overseas.

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🎙️ Kai Huang (886 Studios/RedOctane)
🎙️ Chris Wang (Playdom)
🎙️ Steve Chen (YouTube)
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Asia’s pink economy is thriving, but not without pressure. What does queer activism look like in a region driven by powerful consumer bases that power their own versions of rainbow capitalism?

📺 youtu.be/32-0AFVxO8A

🎙️ Minwoo Jung & Po-Han Lee / @pohanlee.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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As Taipei gears up to host Asia’s largest Pride event, Taiwan LGBT+ Pride, we look at the future of LGBTQ+ activism across Asia amid shrinking corporate sponsorships and fading DEI budgets.

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🎙️ Minwoo Jung, Po-Han Lee / @pohanlee.bsky.social, Wang Hao-Zhong & Sun Meng-Chun
October 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Rainbow capitalism made big promises: a brighter future for Queer people through greater representation in commercial spaces. Now, that promise is under threat.

As Taipei prepares to celebrate Taiwan LGBT+ Pride, we look into the rise and fall of rainbow capitalism.

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October 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Sitting at the heart of the global chip supply, ASML is caught in geopolitical tension between the US, China and Taiwan. How will trade disruptions, export bans and China’s growing chip ambitions shape ASML’s future?

🎙️ Marc Hijink / @marchijink.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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ASML, once a low-profile Dutch firm, now produces state-of-the-art machinery behind 90% of the world’s microchips. Few know its story better than journalist Marc Hijink, author of ‘Focus: the ASML Way.’

🎙️ @marchijink.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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This is where Taiwan’s iconic TSMC was founded. But now, ITRI is pioneering all kinds of innovations that are set to change the way we live.

Senior VP Stephen Su takes us inside ITRI’s mission and some of its breakthrough inventions.

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October 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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China’s dominance in critical minerals exposes one Taiwan’s biggest vulnerability. Elements like gallium and neodymium not only power Taiwan’s silicon shield but also its much-needed weapon manufacturing.

🎙️ @gracebaskaran.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Critical minerals and rare earths are vital to modern weapon production — and China controls nearly all of them. Holding 90% of the world’s supply, Beijing has repeatedly shown it can weaponize access by restricting exports.

🎙️ @gracebaskaran.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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As nations race to cut dependence on Beijing for their rare earth supply, India finds itself in a tricky position — ongoing trade tensions with the US make de-risking from China even harder.

📺 youtu.be/W41n39jCEAU
🎙️ Swasti Rao & Sophia Kalantzakos
October 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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India depends on China for its supply of rare earth elements, but Delhi remains wary of relying too much on Beijing, which controls more than 70% of global rare earth production.

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🎙️ Swasti Rao, Sophia Kalantzakos & Amara Thiha
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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What’s it like to be a friend for hire? To find out our producer Issy Wells booked a professional companion. Candy reveals what made her choose this unusual job, what her clients expect from her, and how it can take an emotional toll.

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October 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Loneliness can be as deadly as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and it’s become big business. From Chinese AI boyfriends to Japanese robot pets, tech startups offer companionship — at a price.

Writer Eli Morimoto, author of The Loneliness Economy substack, explains how it works.

📺 youtu.be/uI4_4M4Fv1E
October 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM