{"podcast":{"title":"EZ News","slug":"ez-news-1063909","podcast_index_feed_id":1063909,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundon.fm/podcasts/d881874d-74a9-43e1-8d92-6e5746969a71.xml","website_url":"https://www.icrt.com.tw","image_url":"https://files.soundon.fm/1590400671701-499db714-348f-4ac0-ba9c-b5cf92e6d327.jpg","author":"ICRT News Team","episode_count":1511,"summary":"ICRT 主播用簡單緩慢的英文，幫助你了解台灣每日重點新聞！ 讓你學習英文、接收新知，一舉兩得🎉 EZ News is designed to help learners improve their English. It is a production of ICRT News, and is posted on our web site and app weekdays. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T14:20:09.814912+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909"},"episode":{"title":"EZ News 05/18/26","slug":"ez-news-05-18-26","published_at":"2026-05-18T03:02:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909/ez-news-05-18-26","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909","url":"https://player.soundon.fm/p/d881874d-74a9-43e1-8d92-6e5746969a71/episodes/f5415940-5728-489e-a308-b8a3d6f6164e","audio_url":"https://rss.soundon.fm/rssf/d881874d-74a9-43e1-8d92-6e5746969a71/feedurl/f5415940-5728-489e-a308-b8a3d6f6164e/rssFileVip.mp3?timestamp=1779286844554","summary":"Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened down 76-points this morning from Friday's close, at 41,095 on turnover of 9.8-billion N-T. The market lost 1.39-per cent on Friday after falling back close to the 41,000 point mark, as U-S President Donald Trump wrapped up his summit in Beijing with China's Xi Jinping. FM in Geneva for WHA sidelines events Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung will be attending events organized by the government and N-G-O's in Geneva this week to coincide with the upcoming World Health Assembly. The trip means that Lin is Taiwan's first top diplomat to have visited the Swiss city during the annual meeting of the global health body. Lin says he has already attended two events there with Health Minister Shih Chung-liang. Taking to Facebook, the foreign minister said he attended an annual symposium organized by the European Federation of Taiwan Health Alliance and a banquet (宴會) hosted by the health ministers and permanent representatives of allied nations in Geneva. Taiwan's representative office in Geneva, says Lin and Shih also held a press event on Sunday to release a government-produced promotional video calling for Taiwan's inclusion in the W-H-A. Japan variety goods chain 3coins to open 1st shop in Taiwan in August And, Japanese discount variety goods chain, 3 coins, is slated to open its first outlet here in Taiwan in August. The company says its first store will open in an Eslite Spectrum outlet located on Wuchang Street in Taipei's Ximending business district. 3coins' has a pricing strategy in Japan of charging only 300 Japanese yen, or about 60 N-T for most of the products it displays The retailer provides a wide range of products, from kitchenware to cosmetics and beauty goods, and seasonal (季…","meta_description":"Good afternoon, I'm _____ with today's episode of EZ News. Tai-Ex opening The Tai-Ex opened down 76-points this morning from Friday's close, at 41,095 on…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":366,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ez-news-1063909/episodes/ez-news-05-18-26/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ez-news-1063909/ez-news-05-18-26.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}