TaiwanPlus Live Streaming – Watch Taiwan’s English Channel Online
Taiwan spent two decades without an English-language channel of its own. Japan had NHK World. Germany had DW. South Korea had Arirang. Taiwan had nothing comparable until TaiwanPlus arrived.
The channel streams free in English – news, food, travel, technology and documentary. The live feed sits above.
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LIVE45TFAbout the Channel
- Name
- TaiwanPlus
- Also written
- Taiwan+
- Funded by
- Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture
- Operated by
- Taiwan’s public broadcasting group
- Online launch
- 2021
- Television launch
- 2022
- Language
- English
- Broadcast hours
- 24 hours
- Terrestrial channel in Taiwan
- 7
- Where to watch
- Online, globally
The Newest Voice in a Crowded Field
Most major economies run an English-language channel aimed at viewers abroad. The idea is old and the list is long.
Britain built the model with the BBC World Service. Germany followed with DW, Japan with NHK World, France with France 24, South Korea with Arirang, Qatar with Al Jazeera. Several of Taiwan’s neighbours – including Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and China – set up their own before Taiwan did.
TaiwanPlus is the late arrival. Taiwan’s culture ministry described its launch as something the country had been working toward for roughly twenty years, which gives a sense of how overdue it was considered domestically.
Being last has one advantage. The channel launched into a streaming era rather than a satellite one, and was built for YouTube and apps from the start rather than retrofitted onto them.
Not Just a News Channel
This is where TaiwanPlus differs most from the established names.
DW and Al Jazeera are news organisations with features attached. TaiwanPlus is closer to the reverse – a lifestyle and culture channel with a newsroom inside it.
Roughly speaking, the schedule divides between
News and current affairs
including political talk programming
Food
night markets, street vendors, regional cooking, the subject Taiwan is best known for abroad
Travel
cities, mountains, coastline and small-town Taiwan
Technology
electronics and manufacturing, an industry Taiwan sits at the centre of
Documentary
history, social change, indigenous communities
Entertainment and arts
music, film and contemporary culture
The newsroom was staffed with journalists recruited from the United States, Britain, Canada, France and Australia alongside Taiwanese professionals, which shows in the presentation style.
Why a Malaysian Viewer Might Watch
Fair question for a channel about an island three thousand kilometres away. There are several genuine answers.
Students
Taiwan is a well-established destination for Malaysian students, particularly within the Malaysian Chinese community. Families with a child studying in Taipei or Hsinchu have an obvious reason to follow the place in a language everyone at home can read.
Semiconductors
Taiwan dominates advanced chip manufacturing, and Penang holds one of the world’s significant semiconductor assembly and testing clusters. The two economies sit in the same supply chain, and the channel covers that industry closely.
Travel
Taiwan is a popular short-haul destination from Kuala Lumpur, and the channel’s food and travel programming works effectively as trip research.
Language practice
For Malaysian viewers improving their English, a channel built for non-native speakers is gentler than one made for London or New York audiences.
Regional news in English
East Asian coverage in English, without a Western newsroom’s framing of the region.
Streaming First, Television Second
TaiwanPlus did not arrive as a television channel. It became one.
The service launched in 2021 as an online platform – a website, an app and social video. There was no broadcast slot and no set-top box carriage. For a year it operated purely as a streaming operation.
The television channel followed in 2022, taking a terrestrial slot in Taiwan and running around the clock. A continuous YouTube livestream launched alongside it, which is how most viewers outside Taiwan still watch.
The sequence matters. Where older international broadcasters built television first and added streaming later, this one did it the other way round – and its global availability reflects that.
Who Funds It, and What That Means
Worth being straightforward about, since it shapes what you are watching.
TaiwanPlus is funded by Taiwan’s government through its culture ministry, and operates under the country’s public broadcasting structure. Officials have been open about the purpose: Taiwan’s international media presence was limited, and the government wanted a platform to present the country’s own perspective to English-speaking audiences.
This places TaiwanPlus in the same category as every other state-funded international broadcaster. Each exists partly to inform and partly to represent its country abroad. DW does it for Germany, NHK World for Japan, Arirang for South Korea.
For viewers, the practical approach is the same everywhere: useful for understanding how a country sees itself and what it wants understood, and best read alongside other sources on anything contested.
Questions Viewers Ask
Is TaiwanPlus free?
Yes. It streams free online with no subscription.
Who funds TaiwanPlus?
Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, through the country’s public broadcasting system.
Is it in English?
Yes, entirely.
When did it launch?
As an online platform in 2021, and as a television channel the following year.
Can I watch it outside Taiwan?
Yes. The channel runs a continuous livestream online, which is how most international viewers watch it.
Is it a news channel?
Partly. News sits alongside food, travel, technology, documentary and entertainment programming.
How is it different from CNA?
CNA is a commercial Singaporean broadcaster covering Asia broadly. TaiwanPlus is state-funded and focused on Taiwan.
What is it called in short?
Taiwan+ – the two forms refer to the same channel.