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Podcast: News Bites
Episode: Taiwan Elections, China Protests, Volcano Problems
Description: In today's news, with Trevor and Paz:
Taiwan finishes its 2022 elections, people in China start protests, and a volcano uses its right to free speech.
Stay tuned for more on those stories, coming up next.
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台灣2022年的九合一選舉
Taiwan's 9-in-1 Elections 2022
Taiwan is a country of more than 23 million people (兩千三百萬多人).
It has many large cities (城市), counties (縣), and special municipalities (直轄市).
And all of those cities and counties need leaders (領導人).
So, how do we choose (選擇) these leaders?
We hold elections (選舉), so people can vote (投票)!
The people we vote for are called candidates (候選人).
And whichever candidate gets the most votes will become the next leader.
Taiwan recently held some very important elections, called the "9-in-1 Elec...