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News For Kids

News For Kids brings you easy stories in English, with Chinese translations to help students and second language learners here in Taiwan! Stories are written and recorded by ICRT correspondents, and uploaded every weekday morning.

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00:05:16

Looking for Gold in New Taipei

News For Kids ·

2025/01/14

Ugh! There's so much sand! My hands are tired. And I'm so cold. Maybe there isn't any … Wait! I see a shiny rock. It looks like gold! Woohoo!!吼！好多沙子，挖得我手好酸，這裡怎麼可能會有... 等等！這閃亮亮的石頭，該不會是黃金！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

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00:05:12

Exercise is Good for the Brain

News For Kids ·

2025/01/13

Exercise is good for our bodies. It helps make us healthy. It helps us fight sickness. It makes our bodies stronger! And it makes our brains bigger too! What? 我們都知道運動對身體很好，讓我們更強壯健康，但是你知道運動也會讓腦袋長大嗎？ Click HERE for the full transcript!

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00:05:22

Making Clothes Colors Better for the Earth

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2025/01/12

Our clothes are many colors: blue pants, red dresses, yellow shirts. They look great! But giving clothes color is bad for the Earth. 我們的衣服五顏六色，但是把衣服染色其實對地球很不好。 Click HERE for the full transcript.

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00:05:17

How to Live Longer

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2025/01/09

Lots of people want to live longer. Many people in Taiwan can live a long time. But how about longer?! Longer is better! So what's the best way to live longer?很多人希望長命百歲，台灣很多人很長壽，但有了一些秘方後，我們也許能活更久！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

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00:05:23

Taiwan Watches Bananas from Space

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2025/01/08

Bananas... yum! Guatemala and Belize, countries in Central America, grow bananas. Taiwan grows bananas too. It knows a lot about bananas! It helps these countries keep their banana plants healthy. 中美洲的貝里斯跟瓜地馬拉兩個國家，種的香蕉都很好吃。是台灣幫助他們維持香蕉樹的健康喔！ Click HERE for the full transcript!

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00:05:20

Student Finds Old City

News For Kids ·

2025/01/07

Wow! There are so many trees here! Look to your left! Trees! Look to your right! There are more trees! We are in a forest, right? 哇！這裡有好多樹木！左看右看都是高大的樹，我們走在森林裡，對吧? Click HERE for the full transcript.

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00:05:14

Drones Kill Fire Ants in Taiwan

News For Kids ·

2025/01/06

Do you live near fire ants? Be careful! These ants are worse than other ants. They bite! Then they sting! Three to seven times! OUCH! That hurts a lot! 你住的地方附近有紅火蟻嗎? 這種可怕的螞蟻會叮咬人三到七次，非常痛! Click ⁠HERE ⁠for the full transcript!

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00:05:27

Sailing the Humpback Highway to Help Save Humpbacks

News For Kids ·

2025/01/05

The Maori are New Zealand's Indigenous people. Whales are important to them. These very big ocean animals gave the Maori meat, milk, oil, and more. 毛利人是紐西蘭原住民，座頭鯨對他們很重要，它提供了鯨魚肉、奶、魚油等資源。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

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00:05:10

New Year’s Special (Part III): Food!

News For Kids ·

2025/01/02

Yesterday was about New Year’s celebrations. Today, we’re talking about food!昨天介紹的慶祝方式都很有趣，那不同國家會吃什麼食物來迎接新年呢? Click HERE for the full transcript.

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00:05:09

New Year’s Special (Part II): Party Time!

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2025/01/02

Yesterday was about calendars. Today, we’re talking about celebrations! 昨天大家認識了各國的月曆，今天來聊聊不同的慶祝方式! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

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00:05:06

New Year’s Special (Part I): Calendars!

News For Kids ·

2024/12/31

It's 2025! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Welcome to our three-part New Year’s Special!There are many days for the new year all over the world. Why? Well, different cultures use different calendars. 你知道世界新年的日子很不一樣嗎? 因為每一個文化有自己特別的月曆。 Click HERE for the full transcript!

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00:05:21

More Electric Scooters Deliver Mail

News For Kids ·

2024/12/30

More Electric Scooters Deliver Mail Electric scooters are great. They are better than gas scooters. Gas scooters are loud. Electric scooters are quiet. Ah, that sounds so nice! 電動機車比一般燃油車好多了，它們不會發出很大的噪音。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, vocabulary, and quiz.

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00:05:19

Japanese Satellite Surprise

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2024/12/29

Japanese Satellite Surprise Manmade satellites go around the Earth. Some take pictures of things in space. Some take pictures of the Earth. Some help us know how to go somewhere. Some help us know about the weather. Some send phone calls to different places. Satellites are important! 人造衛星繞著地球轉，它們有很多任務！像是拍攝太空跟地球的照片、把電話轉接到世界各地、幫助我們做天氣預報等等。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript!

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00:05:25

Taiwan Has the World's Biggest Swim Event

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2024/12/27

Taiwan Has the World's Biggest Swim Event In Taiwan, more than twenty thousand swimmers went to Sun Moon Lake. Mostswimmers were from Taiwan. There were swimmers from thirty eight othercountries too!超過 2 萬個游泳者湧進日月潭，他們不只來自台灣各地，還有其他 38 個國家的選手! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript, including a vocabulary list and quiz!

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00:05:19

Australia Saves Island Sea Turtles

News For Kids ·

2024/12/26

Australia Saves Island Sea Turtles Deer are cute. But on one island in Australia, they caused problems. 鹿是一種很可愛的動物，但牠們在澳洲的小島造成麻煩! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript!

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00:05:19

Who Starts Christmas in September?

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2024/12/25

Who Starts Christmas in September?Santa: Happy holidays! Ho, ho, ho! Narrator: You may love Christmas. But people in the Philippines love Christmas more! Filipinos start Christmas from … huh? … September!? 大家都愛耶誕節，但菲律賓人絕對是耶誕節最大的粉絲!他們從九月就開始準備了! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript!

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00:05:30

Taiwanese Wins the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming

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2024/12/23

Taiwanese Wins the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This means when you want something very much, keep going! Never give up! 「如果失敗了，就要一直試到成功!」意思是如果你想要完成一件事的話，就要努力堅持下去! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript.

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00:05:31

Getting Close to Gray Whales in Mexico

News For Kids ·

2024/12/22

Getting Close to Gray Whales in Mexico Once upon a time, gray whales were almost gone because people hunted them. But today, in Laguna San Ignacio in Mexico, these whales are not just safe, they're super friendly! 灰鯨以前差一點絕種，但是現在在墨西哥聖伊格納西奧潟湖，牠們不僅很安全，還可以跟人近距離接觸! Click HERE to see the full episode transcript!

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00:05:26

It's Tangyuan Time for Taiwan Tomorrow

News For Kids ·

2024/12/20

It's Tangyuan Time for Taiwan Tomorrow Where is Taiwan? It's in the northern half of the world. And, tomorrow is a special day for this half of the world! Tomorrow the sun shines for the shortest time this year. And the night is the longest this year. 台灣在地球的北半球，而明天是很重要的日子! 是北半球白天最短，夜晚最長的一天。 Click HERE to see the full episode transcript!

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00:05:11

What Will Be the Toys of the Year?

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2024/12/19

What Will Be the Toys of the Year? Making a new toy sounds fun. But it's hard to do. Inventors think about the toy. They think about the kids who will play with it. Is the toy too easy or too hard for the kids? 發明新的玩具聽起來很有趣，但其實不簡單。發明家要思考玩具會不會太難?小朋友會喜歡嗎? Click HERE to see the full episode transcript.

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