The China Post
Date: August 7, 2017
By: The China Post

The police had found a drug-inhaling device in the trailer truck that hit a freeway

police patrol car in a fatal accident on Monday.

The police said they were investigating whether the truck driver was driving under the influence when the accident took place.

A freeway police officer was killed and another injured after the truck hit the car on a section of National Freeway No. 3 near Hsinchu on Monday.

The Hsinchu Fire Department said that the two officers were supervising the towing of a van with a flat tire at the 108-kiometer mark on the southbound side of freeway around 10 a.m., when the truck ran into the patrol car from behind and then the van.
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LEARNING CURVE:The EPA deputy minister urged the wind-farm industry to focus on learning manufacturing and skills that can be exported as the business expands

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 07, 2017
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter

Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Deputy Minister Chan Shun-kuei (詹順

貴) addressed the problems involved in offshore wind farming in Taiwan in an interview with the Taipei Times on Thursday.

“Development is not always wrong. Sometimes it is the location that is the problem,” he said, showing that he is not an indiscriminate opponent to economic development even though he often sides with the disadvantaged in land development issues.

Since the beginning of this year, the EPA has received 22 environmental impact assessment (EIA) applications from offshore wind-farm developers.

However, most were required to make up for their insufficient ecological studies.
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Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-08-06

Taiwan is preparing for the Summer Universiade and the 12,000 athletes and visitors

to Taiwan. This means more job opportunities.

Many positions being advertised are at famous hotels and restaurants such as the Regent Hotel and Ding Tai Feng. They are also other areas of the service sector such as convenience stories and travel agents.

The Regent Taipei is looking for 400 temp workers while the restaurant group TTFB Company is offering jobs that pay up to NT$50,000 a month. Taiwan’s famous dumpling restaurant Ding Tai Feng is offering up to NT$56,000 for cooks and up to NT$195 an hour for part time workers. These are all fairly high wages in Taiwan’s market.
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China and South-East Asian countries may start negotiations on a code of conduct in the South China Sea this year

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/08/07
By: dpa,Agencies

China and South-East Asian countries may start negotiations on a code of conduct in

the disputed South China Sea this year if there is “no major disruption” from outside parties, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Sunday.

Wang said Beijing and the 10-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) approved a framework for the code of conduct, which would pave the way for the negotiations.

“Today, the 11 foreign ministers agreed upon and adopted the code of conduct framework, and we announced that sometime within the year, we will start the negotiations on the text of the code of conduct,” he said after meeting with his counterparts from the regional bloc.

But Wang said there were “preconditions” to the start of the negotiations, including no interference from non-claimant countries.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/08/06
By: Pan Chi-i and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Aug. 6 (CNA) Taiwan’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Miaoli County

has generated 6.5MW as of late July since the launch of commercial operations in April, with capacity expected to grow to 120MW by 2019, according to local company Swancor Renewable, the lead developer for the project.

The wind farm project — Formosa I — is one of the three projects supervised by the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Bureau of Energy as part of its stated goal to install 1,000 wind turbines by 2030, in support of the Taiwanese government’s plan to produce 4GW of electricity through offshore wind.

Two 4MW wind turbines with a capacity of 8MW were installed in November 2016 under the first phase and became operational in April 2017. The second phase involves the addition of another 30 turbines with a combined capacity of 120MW. Construction on phase two is expected to start in 2019 and begin commercial operation in the same year, according to Swancor Renewable.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-08-03

The foreign ministry says its trade office in Nigeria has found a suitable place in the

city of Lagos to use as its new location. That’s after the West African country ordered Taiwan to relocate its office away from the capital Abuja.

The foreign ministry official in charge of West African affairs, Antonio Chen, said the new property will undergo renovation for the next two months before staff move in.

In January, the Nigerian government told Taiwan to move its office from the capital. It also said the name of the office should be changed and the number of office staff cut. The Nigerian government also demanded that the trade office’s director, Morgan Chao, leave the country, saying that it could not guarantee his safety. Chao has since returned to Taiwan.    [FULL  STORY]

French priest granted citizenship far sooner than usual 50 year mark other missionaries have received

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/08/03
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Breaking from recent precedent, a French Catholic priest

has been granted Taiwanese citizenship despite having lived in Taiwan for less than half the time other recent recipients of naturalization have resided in the country.

On Wednesday, French Catholic priest Yves Nalet (南耀寧), officially received his Taiwanese citizenship after living in the country for a mere 21 years, far shorter than American Jesuit Father Daniel Ross, 85 and Sister Mary Paul Watts (華淑芳) 85, who lived in Taiwan for 57 and 59 years, respectively before attaining citizenship. Though he attained citizenship in a shorter period of time than many recent predecessors, he too is elderly at the age of 71.

Having first arrived in Taiwan in 1996 to work for a biweekly newsletter called China News Analysis, before beginning research on China and cross-strait relations at Taipei’s Fu Jen Catholic University. It was during his studies at Fu Jen that he began weekly cycling trips from Taipei to serve local residents in Jianshih Township in Hsinchu County, which took him 3.5 hours to cover a distance of 70 kilometers.
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Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/08/03
By: Ku Chuan and Y.F. Low

Taipei, Aug. 3 (CNA) Taiwan respects China’s decision on whether to attend the Aug.

19 opening ceremony of the 2017 Universiade in Taipei, a Cabinet spokesman said on Thursday.

The government cannot compel Beijing to attend the event, Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) said at a press conference held after a weekly Cabinet meeting, in response to reports that China has decided not to take part.

According to Sports Administration Director-General Lin De-fu (林德福), China has registered to send a 195-member delegation, including 113 athletes and 82 staff members, to the Universiade.

Asked if spectators will be allowed to display the national flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan), he said all banners and posters will be permitted as long as they are no larger than 1 meter by 2 meters.    [FULL  STORY]