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Podcast: News Bites
Episode: Pingtung Pineapples, Banana Robots, Dog Service
Description: Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!
I'm Trevor Tortomasi…
And I'm Clifford Chu.
In today's news…
Pingtung sends pineapples to Singapore, robots learn to peel bananas in Japan, and dogs get six-star service in South Africa.
All that and more, coming up next.
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屏東外銷鳳梨至新加坡
Pingtung Sends Pineapples to Singapore
Did you know that there are more than 90 different kinds of pineapple in Taiwan?
To most people, they may look almost identical.
對大部分人來說，不同種類的鳳梨外觀都一樣。
Pineapples first came to Taiwan from China, during the Qing Dynasty (清朝).
And different kinds of pineapple from Hawaii and Southeast Asia were also introduced, during the Japanese colonial period (日本殖民地時代).
During that time, Taiwan b...