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ICRT News Bites gives junior high school students a tasty serving of English with local and international news from around the world! Brought to you by ICRT and the K-12 Education Administration of the Ministry of Education, News Bites stories are written and recorded by the ICRT News Team, and uploaded on weekdays during Taiwan’s school semesters.

Hamburg Names Bridge & Iceland First Mosquitoes

8 mins; November 02, 2025

Tang Winner Wins Nobel & Sushi Master

8 mins; October 30, 2025

Dadaocheng Cats & Korean Coffee Shop

8 mins; October 29, 2025

Discriminatory Remarks & SK Legalizes Tattooing Without License

8 mins; October 28, 2025

Sugar Painting & Lira the Lion

8 mins; October 27, 2025

Old Fishing Nets Turn New, and an Actress or AI?

8 mins; October 26, 2025

Taichung Celebrates Diwali & Long-Lost Treasure

8 mins; October 23, 2025

Taiwan's Latest Fish & Nobel Season

8 mins; October 22, 2025

Nvidia HQ & Moon Tea

8 mins; October 21, 2025

K9 Rescue Team & Pedaling Up Paris

8 mins; October 20, 2025

School Start Time & Gender Gap

8 mins; October 19, 2025

Tainan Monorail & Oldest Baby

8 mins; October 16, 2025

Taipei Zoo & Chile Smartphone Use

8 mins; October 15, 2025

Stricter Driver's License Tests & Toothpaste Made From Hair

8 mins; October 14, 2025

Jane Goodall Remembered & Clean Energy Wins

8 mins; October 13, 2025

Sun Moon Lake Swimmers & Driverless Taxis

8 mins; October 12, 2025

Magic Plants & Egypt's Strong Man

8 mins; October 09, 2025

Tainan Dog Bus, Italy Dog Tax

8 mins; October 08, 2025

Taiwan Teams Up & New Uranus Moon

8 mins; October 07, 2025

Taiwan Talent & US Phone Restrictions

8 mins; October 06, 2025

Civil Defense & Ig Nobel Prize

8 mins; October 02, 2025

Social Enterprise World Forum & a Woman Before Her Time

8 mins; October 01, 2025

Upcycling the Beach, and the Oldest to Climb Mount Fuji

8 mins; September 30, 2025

Ambulance Baby & Matcha Craze

8 mins; September 29, 2025

Youngest Minister & Surprise for Tired Passengers

8 mins; September 25, 2025

Harry Potter Brooms & Chimps Drink Alcohol

8 mins; September 24, 2025

New Train Museum & Two Dad Baby Mice

8 mins; September 23, 2025

Kaohsiung Drinks & Ned the Snail

8 mins; September 22, 2025

New TSHR Trains & Places Phones Shouldn't Go

8 mins; September 21, 2025

Wooden Credit Card & New Slang Words

8 mins; September 18, 2025

Message in Bottle & Robot Bees

8 mins; September 17, 2025

Bib Gourmand Rankings & Swedish Church

8 mins; September 16, 2025

Lucky Pitbull & Birthday Bash

8 mins; September 15, 2025

Jeremy Lin & Little legs, big dreams

8 mins; September 14, 2025

Pet Friendly City & Pokemon Whale

8 mins; September 11, 2025

Taiwan Team & HK Bird Call Championship

8 mins; September 10, 2025

Gender Wage Gap & Earth's Oldest Rocks

8 mins; September 09, 2025

Typhoon Danas Donations & Traveling in Japan

8 mins; September 08, 2025

THSR Quiet Rules & Mexican Dog

8 mins; September 07, 2025

Young Taiwanese Inventors & Surfing Record

8 mins; September 04, 2025

HPV Vaccines & Snake on Plane

8 mins; September 03, 2025

Taipei Staying Power & Japan's Oldest Person

8 mins; September 02, 2025

Taiwan Filmmakers & Dog-Sized Dino

8 mins; September 01, 2025

Medicine from Drones, Giant Stick Insect

8 mins; August 31, 2025

Taiwan Artist Sculpts Goldfish & Bear Buddies

8 mins; June 29, 2025

Lead Poisoning Chip & Dehorning Rhinos

8 mins; June 26, 2025

Love in Food & Teens Make Newspaper

8 mins; June 25, 2025

Language Loss & Regrowing Limb

8 mins; June 24, 2025

Gods Among Us and Uncovering Underwater Fossils

8 mins; June 23, 2025

Taipei Ranks 60th & Immigration Museum

8 mins; June 22, 2025

Coffee Ground Buildings and Seahorse Smuggling

8 mins; June 19, 2025

Fines for Drivers & "Dinosaur Tree"

8 mins; June 18, 2025

Quitline & Night Vision Contact Lens

8 mins; June 17, 2025

Disgusting Food Museum & Weiner Dogs Walk

8 mins; June 16, 2025

Cool English & Color-Changing Home

8 mins; June 15, 2025

Heat Policy & Wild Elephant

8 mins; June 12, 2025

Dongyin Joins Cittaslow Network & Kirakira Names

8 mins; June 11, 2025

Brainwash Town & AI Lanternfly Trap

8 mins; June 10, 2025

Night Market Pollution & South Korea's Legendary Sea Women

8 mins; June 09, 2025

Exercising More and Three-Eyed Fossil

8 mins; June 08, 2025

Tainan Pineapple Clothing & Schindler Survivor Museum

8 mins; June 05, 2025

Record-Breaking Otter & Ship in Garden

8 mins; June 04, 2025

Press Freedom & Mini Weiner Dog

8 mins; June 03, 2025

New Phone Rules and Soviet Spacecraft Crash

8 mins; June 02, 2025

Fulong Beach Sand Sculptures & Pokemon "Fossil" Museum

8 mins; June 01, 2025

Starfish Attack and King Arthur Book

8 mins; May 28, 2025

World Masters Games and Chimps First Aid

8 mins; May 28, 2025

Taipei 8th Happiest City & Kenya Ant Smugglers

8 mins; May 26, 2025

New National Holidays & Goodbye Giant Eagles

8 mins; May 25, 2025

Seagrass Restoration & Snake Anti-Venom

8 mins; May 22, 2025

Bubble Tea Record & Tea Seller Changes Village

8 mins; May 21, 2025

Temple Procession Noise Restrictions & Australia Shark Rescue

8 mins; May 20, 2025

Taiwan Wild Side & Zimbabwe Challenges Ambassadors

8 mins; May 19, 2025

Kaohsiung Health & Sleep Class

8 mins; May 18, 2025

Scooter Ownership & Mount Fuji Rescue

8 mins; May 15, 2025

Taiwanese Love Japan & China Limits Hollywood

8 mins; May 14, 2025

Blue Tears & Welsh Puppies

8 mins; May 13, 2025

Taiwanese Denisovan and Space Brolly

8 mins; May 12, 2025

Student Photographer and Gladiator Lions

8 mins; May 11, 2025

South Korean Flights and Australian Koalas

8 mins; May 08, 2025

Taiwan Climate Change and K-Pop Experience

8 mins; May 07, 2025

Giant Fruit & "2025 Invertebrate of the Year"

8 mins; May 06, 2025

Tech World & Thorium Nuclear Reactor

8 mins; May 05, 2025

Venomous Sea Creature and Drones Climb Everest

8 mins; May 04, 2025

WNBA Player of Taiwan Descent, You as an AI Doll

8 mins; May 01, 2025

Social Media Reliance & U.S. Businesses Building Homes

8 mins; April 30, 2025

Most Influential People List & World's Best Croissant Baker

8 mins; April 29, 2025

Taiwanese-American Professor & Speedskater

8 mins; April 28, 2025

Dedicated Satellite & Alien Life

8 mins; April 27, 2025

Poisonous Snakes & Sniffing Rats

8 mins; April 24, 2025

Traffic Light for Xiaoliuqiu & LeBron James Becomes Ken

8 mins; April 23, 2025

Pigeon Whistle Racing & Bollywood Comedy Joy

8 mins; April 22, 2025

Hermit Crabs & World's Smallest Pacemaker

8 mins; April 21, 2025

Missing Man Found and Antarctic Sea Creatures

8 mins; April 20, 2025

Taipei Metro Escalators & Airline Power Bank Rules

8 mins; April 17, 2025

New Kind of Doctor and Maybe New Kind of Human

8 mins; April 16, 2025

Humpback Whale & Space Tourists

8 mins; April 15, 2025

Taiwan Democracy Rankings & Brits Aren't Reading

8 mins; April 14, 2025

Earthquake Drill & Beehive Fence

8 mins; April 13, 2025

Monkey Fences & Megalodon Fossils

8 mins; April 10, 2025

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