Area 7, District 3523
Service first, fellowship after
6 meetings
Speaker: 葉靜倫 Sara
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Right Plus
Right Plus is one of few independent outlets in Taiwan focused on social welfare and the public interest. This talk looks at how a nonprofit newsroom sustains itself outside the commercial traffic economy while speaking for those in precarious circumstances.
Speaker: Mukesh Kaushik
Taiwan Fellowship visiting scholar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Senior defence and strategic affairs correspondent, Dainik Bhaskar (India)
An annual diplomacy talk is one of this club's standing traditions. This session brings an Indian correspondent with 35 years covering diplomacy and defence to compare the democratic paths of both countries.
Speaker: 鄭國威
Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer, PanMedia Group; Host of PanSci
How PanSci moved from a website to YouTube, using video and short-form formats to carry science beyond its own echo chamber and into wider public conversation.
Speaker: 莉莉 Ririn Arumsari
Home-care worker from Java, Indonesia; author of Borrowed Grandpa
Coming from Java, Indonesia, with a dream kindled by a Taiwanese television drama, Lily spent nearly a decade supporting Taiwanese families as a professional carer — speaking fluent Mandarin and Taiwanese — while writing down her migrant life on a tiny phone screen. Her debut novel, Borrowed Grandpa, captures the loneliness of old age and the understanding that slowly grows between carer and cared-for.
Speaker: 潘威達
CEO, Eater Iron Bang F&B Group
How does a homegrown Taiwanese food-and-beverage group turn migrant worker talent into its own Iron Brigade? CEO 潘威達 shares the human-talent philosophy behind eleven restaurant brands — and the guiding belief: believe in goodness, change lives with your life.
Speaker: 蔡宛真
Aromatherapist; EMHA, Institute of Health Policy and Management, National Taiwan University College of Public Health
Can't sleep — is counting sheep all you've got? Aromatherapist and public-health researcher 蔡宛真 takes us from sleep science through olfactory training to daily ritual, exploring the real relationship between scent and sleep. 22 December falls on the winter solstice — attendees will also make a sleep-aid sachet to take home.
Meetings already held, most recent first.
Speaker: 陳吉仲
Chair Professor of Applied Economics and Vice President, National Chung Hsing University; former Minister of Agriculture
From academia to the cabinet, the speaker has spent his career on agricultural policy and industry development. This talk covers the challenges and openings Taiwanese agriculture faces in climate adaptation, the net-zero transition and long-term sustainability.
Speaker: 徐彩玲
Founder, New Chili Sauce; Secretary-General, Mayuan Community Development Association, Gukeng, Yunlin
The daughter of an immigrant mother and a Gukeng farming family, the speaker grew up as her mother's cultural interpreter. She now blends Thai flavours from her mother's homeland with local Yunlin produce under the New Chili Sauce brand, giving hometown crops a new story and new value.
Speaker: 蔡英地
CEO, Formosa Goose
At forty the speaker traded his suit for rubber boots, leaving a finance role at a multinational technology firm to raise geese in Yunlin. Facing extreme weather, labour shortages and an ageing workforce, he introduced climate-controlled housing and renewable energy to build a full chain from production through energy to brand.
Speaker: 謝易芸
VP of Operations, GrX Studio; Board Member, Taiwan Wild Grass Writers Association
This club is a continuing supporter of the Taiwan Literature Award for Migrants, which encourages writers working in Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Khmer, Filipino and Burmese to tell their own stories. The 2026 edition drew a record 549 submissions. This talk examines culture as a force for inclusion.
Speaker: 王秀娟
Chair, Taiwan Parks & Playgrounds for Children by Children (TWPfC)
The first regular meeting of the new Rotary year. What began as one mother's concern grew into influence over public space planning across Taiwan — not simply playground construction, but a public conversation about childhood, community participation and the future of cities.