Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/06/14
By: Lu Jun-kang and Ted Chen

Taipei, June 14 (CNA) The unlikely sight of a hen minding a paddling of ducklings is now a regular fixture at a recreational farm in Hsinchu County’s Zhudong Township.

According its proprietor Lin Jien-cheng (林建成), the peculiar development is due to the arrangement of the farm, which places the hatcheries for chickens and ducks within close proximity.

Consequently, ducks and hens often return to the wrong hatchery from foraging and proceed to sit on the clutches of eggs indiscriminately.

Five days ago, as 12 ducklings broke through their egg shells and opened their eyes, one of the very first things they saw was a black-feathered hen, said Lin.     [FULL  STORY]

GOSSIP:Claims that Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu cannot win have led to rumors that the KMT will not nominate her, even if she passes the threshold

Taipei Times
Date:  Jun 14, 2015
By: Staff writer, with CNA

The results of opinion polls on Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) are to be

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu talks to reporters in New Taipei City yesterday. Photo: CNA

published today as part of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) presidential primary, KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) said yesterday.

Chu said everything would proceed according to the established system.

The results will be closely watched by not only the KMT’s supporters, but those of the Democratic Progressive Party, which is eager to regain the presidency it lost in 2008 by getting DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) elected in January next year’s presidential race.

Hung is the only candidate to have qualified for the KMT’s presidential primary. Whether she will be nominated is to be decided by her ability to secure at least 30 percent support in the series of opinion polls conducted by three different pollsters on Friday and yesterday.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/06/13
By: Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, June 13 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau on Saturday issued heavy rain warnings to the greater Taipei area and mountainous regions in central and northeastern Taiwan, cautioning against severe weather conditions with possible hail.

The Wenshan District in suburban Taipei had accumulated hourly precipitation of 30 mm early Saturday afternoon, forecasters said, adding that the rainclouds are moving northeastward and could bring similar weather to Xinyi, Songshan, Nangang and Daan districts.

Residents should take precautions against sudden downpours, lightning, strong gusts and even hail, the bureau said.

Those in mountainous areas should also pay attention to possible flooding, it said.

Want China Times
Date: 2015-06-13
By: Staff Reporter

A fisherman from Lianjiang county in Fuzhou found and brought home an abandoned vessel in

The deserted vessel picked up by the fisherman in the Taiwan Strait. (Internet photo)

the Taiwan Strait, the Fujian-based Strait News reported.

According to a local fisherman nicknamed Aodi, who towed the barge-like ship to port, he noticed the vessel on his way back from a crab catching trip in the Taiwan Strait last week.

The vessel, which has “AMITAMA 6” painted on the side, was empty with no cargo, said Aodi.

It took three fishing boats and around five days to tow the vessel, which is over 90 meters in length and 25 meters in width, back to the fishing village of Chiwo in Lianjiang, Aodi said.     [FULL  STORY]

SUNFLOWER REDUX:Sources said the government is concerned student discontent could lead to protests on a scale similar to those held by the Sunflower movement

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 14, 2015
By: Rachel Lin  /  Staff reporter

Students yesterday protested in Taipei and Tainan against the unexpected cancelation by the

Students yesterday tear up a picture of Minister of Education Wu Se-hwa during a protest against proposed new high-school curriculum guidelines outside the Ministry of Education in Taipei. Photo: Wang Min-wei, Taipei Times

Ministry of Education of three hearings scheduled for this weekend that would have reviewed the curriculum guidelines for high-school textbooks.

Holding two large banners that read “anti-brainwashing” and “oppose the adjustments made to the curriculum guidelines,” as well as various smaller placards expressing their dissatisfaction, dozens of students, some wearing their school uniforms, called for Minister of Education Wu Se-hwa (吳思華) to listen to their demands outside the ministry yesterday afternoon.

In Tainan, students from Tainan First High School (TFHS), National Tainan Girls’ Senior High School and Kuang Hua High School yesterday morning protested at the TFHS entrance, where a hearing was supposed to take place.

In a video clip on the Chinese-language Apple Daily’s Web site, students were heard saying “[you are] lying, lying” in response to a school staffer telling reporters that the school was unable to host the hearing because it was understaffed due to a high-school entrance exam.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times00
Date: 2015-06-12
By: Liu Ching-yu and Staff Reporter

Taiwan is taking part in the global development of a 5G standard alongside Europe, the US

A 5G test platform displayed at a press conference in Taipei, June 10. (Photo/Hung Si-lung)

and China, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Commercial Times.

The government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has launched two projects under the European Union’s (EU) 5G research and development plan since last year. It has also collaborated with French INRIA and OneLab on machine to machine (M2M) development as well as a millimeter-wave radio communications development project with Intel.

Officials from the ministry of economic affairs (MOEA) said a 5G test network which is now under development in Taiwan, is expected to produce US$200 billion in market value after it is put to commercial use in about six years. Major Chinese telecom companies and operators such as Huawei and China Mobile are also participating in the 5G network project.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Tims
Date: Jun 13, 2015
By: Abraham Gerber  /  Staff reporter

Independent Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) was yesterday greeted by protesters as he

Supporters of laid-off workers of South Korean Hydis Technologies yesterday hand a petition calling for the release of the workers from a detention center to Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je, left, as he attends a city council meeting in Taipei. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

entered a city council meeting, following the arrest of the last of nine South Korean labor activists that morning.

About 50 protesters pushed against a cordon of police officers outside the council venue after Ko accepted their petitions, shouting slogans accusing the city government of acting as a “shield” and “thug” for corporations.

While Ko was quickly hustled into the building, some members of his entourage were temporarily trapped between protesters and police, with protester chants echoing through the council’s entrance hall during a pre-scheduled city press conference.     [FULL  STORY]