Monthly Archives: April 2016

Taiwanese boss dies after Chinese subordinate’s knife attack in southern Vietnam

Thanh Nien News
Date: April 17, 2016
By: BINH DUONG

The chairman of a Taiwanese shoe company based in the southern province of

Li Me You at the police station in the southern province of Binh Duong. Photo: Do TruongLi Me You at the police station in the southern province of Binh Duong. hoto: Do Truong

Li Me You at the police station in the southern province of Binh Duong. Photo: Do TruongLi Me You at the police station in the southern province of Binh Duong. hoto: Do Truong

Binh Duong died on Saturday, five days after a knife attack by his Chinese subordinate over a dispute at work.

The family of Chen Ming Hsiung, chairman of Kingmaker Company, was taking him to his hometown in Taiwan but he succumbed to the serious injuries on the way, local media reported on Sunday.

Hsiung, 63, was rushed to Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, near Binh Duong, in a coma on April 12 after being attacked by Li Me You, 45, the company’s warehouse manager.

A quarrel occurred after Hsiung reportedly questioned You, a Chinese national, over shoes missing from the warehouse.     [FULL  STORY]

China criticises Taiwan over telephone fraud case

BBC News
Date: 17 April 2016

Taiwan says it has no evidence the alleged suspects did anything wrong

Alleged fraud suspects arrive at Taoyuan Airport from Malaysia on 15 April 2016.Image copyrightAFP

Alleged fraud suspects arrive at Taoyuan Airport from Malaysia on 15 April 2016.Image copyrightAFP

China has criticised Taiwan for releasing 20 people suspected of being involved in a telephone fraud case linked to mainland China.

They were part of a group of Taiwanese nationals arrested in Malaysia and deported to Taiwan.

China said it wanted to prosecute them, but Taiwanese officials said there was insufficient evidence.

Taiwan has protested after Kenya deported to China 45 Taiwanese nationals accused of the same crime.

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Taiwan, Poland all square after first day of playoff

Taipei Times
Date: Apr 18, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter

Taiwan and Poland were locked at 1-1 after the first day of their Fed Cup World

Taiwan’s Lee Ya-hsuan returns against Magdalena Frech of Poland during their Fed Cup World Group II playoff match in Inowroclaw, Poland, on Saturday. Photo: EPA

Taiwan’s Lee Ya-hsuan returns against Magdalena Frech of Poland during their Fed Cup World Group II playoff match in Inowroclaw, Poland, on Saturday. Photo: EPA

Group II playoff on Saturday in Inowroclaw, Poland.

Fed Cup debutant Hsu Ching-wen got the visitors off to the perfect start, recovering from a break down in the first set to claim a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Paula Kania in 1 hour, 16 minutes in the first singles rubber.

The Taiwanese saved two of four break points and converted four of eight, hitting 19 winners on her way to claiming 64 of the 107 points contested to put promotion-seeking Taiwan 1-0 up in the best-of-five tie.

“I was thinking too much,” the 19-year-old Taiwanese told the Fed Cup Web site of her initial wobble.

“I wanted to win fast, but I lose the control,” she said.     [FULL  STORY]

Fun run organizer apologizes for typo on advertising board

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/04/17
By: Chao Li-yan and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, April 17 (CNA) National Geographic Channel (NGC) on Sunday 201604170020t0001apologized for an English typo made on an advertising board for a fun run it hosted in Taichung, central Taiwan that day, on which the name of “Taiwan” was written as “Taiwam.”

The National Geographic’s Earth Day Run kicked off at the Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, attracting thousands of runners.

Some Internet users spotted the typo displayed on the advertising board placed at the starting point and uploaded pictures of the board online, sparking discussion among netizens.

However, the event organizer said while it had discovered the error before the event started, it did not have enough time to fix the problem.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan Beer beat Builders in Game 2

SERIES LEVELED:Patrick O’Bryant and Liu Cheng combined to produce a 5-0 run in the third quarter, which helped Taiwan Beer overcome a 39-34 deficit at halftime

Taip;ei Times
Date: Apr 18, 2016
By Paul Huang / Contributing reporter

Holding Pure Youth Construction to just eight points in the third quarter, Taiwan

Pure Youth Construction forward Douglas Creighton looks for options against Taiwan Beer at the Fengshan Stadium in Kaohsiung yesterday. Photo: Huang Chih-yuan, Taipei Times

Pure Youth Construction forward Douglas Creighton looks for options against Taiwan Beer at the Fengshan Stadium in Kaohsiung yesterday. Photo: Huang Chih-yuan, Taipei Times

Beer rallied from a five-point, first-half deficit with a superior second half, stifling the Builders with a final score of 81-72 at the Kaohsiung Feng Shan Gymnasium last night to take Game 2 of the championship finals.

The victory not only cooled off the Builders, who seemed well on their way to win the game with a solid first half, but more importantly evened the best-of-seven series at one apiece as another loss by the Brew Crew would have put them in a hole.

Liu Cheng broke out of a scoreless slump in the first half with 16 points in the second half, 10 of which came during the decisive fourth quarter to corral his club past the four-time defending champions.

“I just tried not to let [his scoreless first half] bother me and kept shooting the ball if the shots were there,” Liu said after the game.

His timely surge could be trouble for Pure Youth now that the series is essentially a best-of-five.     [FULL  STORY]

CAL cancels flight to southern Japan in wake of strong earthquake

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/04/16
By: Wei Shu, Chen Wei-ting and Elaine Hou

Taipei, April 16 (CNA) China Airlines (CAL), Taiwan’s largest airline company, has canceled its flight on Sunday from Kaohsiung to Kumamoto in southern Japan, in the wake a magnitude 7.3 quake early Saturday that forced the shutdown of the airport in that prefecture.

The airline operates flights from southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung to Kumamoto on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

Due to the strong earthquake, the carrier said the flight on Sunday has been canceled. When the flight service is resumed will depend on when the airport is re-opened, it added.

The earthquake was also felt in the neighboring prefecture of Fukuoka in the Kyushu region.

Following the quake, two Taiwanese budget airlines — V Air and Tigerair Taiwan — also announced Saturday that they will allow customers to reschedule flights to Fukuoka due to safety reasons.     [FULL  STORY]

New drug might help lymphoma patients

ALTERNATIVE:The frontline treatment for lymphoma is chemotherapy, but cancer cells become resistant to the treatment, professor Owen A. O’Connor said

Taipei Times
Date: Apr 18, 2016
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

Clinical studies have shown poor prognoses for patients with most subtypes of

Mackay Memorial Hospital consultant hematologist and oncologist Chang Ming-chih, left, and Owen A. O’Connor, professor of medicine and experimental therapeutics and director of the Center for Lymphoid Malignancies at Columbia University Medical Center, are pictured in an undated photograph. Photo: Ruby Chang

Mackay Memorial Hospital consultant hematologist and oncologist Chang Ming-chih, left, and Owen A. O’Connor, professor of medicine and experimental therapeutics and director of the Center for Lymphoid Malignancies at Columbia University Medical Center, are pictured in an undated photograph. Photo: Ruby Chang

peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL), especially for those who have received conventional chemotherapy, as well as high relapse and low overall survival rates, but doctors said a new antifolate could be an effective alternative to traditional treatments.

Chang Ming-chih (張明志), consultant hematologist and oncologist at Mackay Memorial Hospital, said an average of about 330 PTCL cases were reported in Taiwan each year in the past few years and the numbers appear to be growing, adding that there are many different types of PTCL and most of them are aggressive.

Chang said that a study conducted overseas in 2013 showed that the three-year survival rate of PTCL patients after their first relapse was only 18 percent, adding that survival rates can be increased significantly for those who receive hematopoietic stem cell transplantations (HSCT).

However, patients are sometimes too weak to undergo HSCT due to age or the side effects of conventional chemotherapy, or they are unwilling to accept treatment due the to high relapse rate, he said, adding that the average lifespan of PTCL patients after their first relapse or progression is about five-and-a-half months without HSCT.     [FULL  STORY]

10 Taiwanese stranded in earthquake-hit Japanese village of Aso

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-04-17
By: Central News Agency

There are 10 Taiwanese nationals stranded in the southern part of the Aso area in Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan’s Kyushu, including seven university students, Taiwan’s representative office in Fukuoka said Sunday.

The university students were working as interns at a hot spring hotel in Aso, an official at the liaison office told CNA by telephone, noting that they have made contact with the students and will send a car to pick them up the next day.

The traffic of most access roads to Aso have been severed due to landslides caused by multiple earthquakes since Thursday, but the Taiwan office said it has found that there is still one mountain road open to traffic into the quake-hit town.

After devising a plan to drive there, a vehicle will be dispatched to take the students out of Aso, the office said.     [FULL  STORY]

Pop diva A-mei makes a splash in Bangkok

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/04/17
By: Liu Te-chan and Christie Chen

Bangkok, April 16 (CNA) Taiwanese pop diva A-mei (張惠妹) on Saturday 34328090brought her Utopia World Tour to the Thai capital of Bangkok, drawing 4,000 fans to her concert at the Royal Paragon Hall.

During the concert, A-mei rolled out hit songs including “Disappear,” “Can I Hug You, Lover,” “Bad Boy” and “Three Days Three Nights” to a crowd of electrified fans.

A staunch supporter of gay rights and same-sex marriage, the 43-year-old singer waved a rainbow flag on stage, urging her gay and lesbian fans to “show your love to everyone.”

A-mei also invited Chinese actor Huang Jingyu (黃景瑜) as a special guest to her concert and the two performed a duet of “I Only Care About You” by late Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng. Huang gained fame after starring in the web drama “Addicted,” which touches on same-sex romance.     [FULL  STORY]

Nobel laureate criticizes energy policy, subsidies

TURNING THE TIDE:Utilizing sources of renewable energy and developing carbon capture technology are key to dealing with climate change, Lee Yuan-tseh said

Taipei Times
Date: Apr 18, 2016
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter

Former Academia Sinica president Lee Yuan-tseh (李遠哲) yesterday said that

Former Academia Sinica president Lee Yuan-tseh speaks at a conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times

Former Academia Sinica president Lee Yuan-tseh speaks at a conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times

he is against lowering electricity prices and subsidizing fossil fuels, calling on the incoming government to establish a reasonable energy pricing mechanism that reflects the health and environmental consequences of using fossil fuels.

“The government spends NT$20 billion [US$618.27 million] on fossil-fuel subsidies every year, but if the effects of global warming and air pollution are taken into consideration, the cost of subsidizing fossil fuels would be NT$1 trillion every year, or NT$43,000 per person,” Lee said at a conference in Taipei about sustainable environments.

While the government said it is “taking care of” Taiwanese by lowering gasoline and power prices, the industry and energy sectors, which together use 45 percent of the nation’s energy and contribute to more than 60 percent of Taiwan’s carbon emissions, are the largest beneficiaries of the fossil-fuel subsidies funded by taxpayers, Lee said, adding that it is a misuse of public money.     [FULL  STORY]