‘NOT A SLOGAN’:The nation’s wind energy sector might attract up to NT$1.5 trillion in investment, and global energy firms are interested, Cabinet spokesman Hsu Kuo-yung said

Taipei Times
Date; Oct 23, 2017
By: Chen Wei-han  /  Staff reporter

There are no plans for an electricity rate hike even though the nation is transitioning to

renewable energy, the Cabinet said yesterday as Premier William Lai (賴清德) inspected a new solar power system in Kinmen County.

There are no plans for a rate hike because the cost of renewable energy will drop dramatically with technological advances, Cabinet spokesman Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) said.

The new solar power system in Kinmen is 50 percent more efficient than the one installed eight years ago and had a lower construction cost, Hsu said.

Renewable power plants have no fuel costs; the only costs are construction, operation and maintenance expenses, which are more affordable than the operational and maintenance costs of a traditional power plant, Hsu said.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-10-21

Vice President Chen Chien-jen says the government sees 2050 as reasonable date for

dropping coal from Taiwan’s energy mix.

Chen was speaking Saturday at an event celebrating 30 years since the founding of the Taiwan Environmental Protection Union. Chen said Taiwan has chosen the same date for dropping coal as Germany. He said this is because Taiwan’s conditions are closer to those of Germany than of other countries that have pledged to drop coal.

Chen said the countries that aim to stop burning coal before 2050 draw a high proportion of their power from nuclear plants or have rich hydroelectric resources to fall back on. He said Taiwan does not have this kind of energy mix. In particular, the government plans to phase out nuclear power by 2025. Chen said Taiwan must work hard to cover the gap this will leave with green energy sources.    [FULL STORY]

Explore and enjoy the joy of dining with a large group of people in true Taiwanese style with Good Eye Taipei.

The News Lens
Date: 2017/10/21
By: TNL 編輯

What is Taiwanese food? This question cannot be answered in one sentence. As an island country that has been immersed in various cultures, Taiwan’s food culture is a mixed one. Rooted in Fujianese cuisine, which is oftentimes based on good broth, Taiwanese food also incorporates Dutch, Japanese, Chinese cuisine and more. Taiwanese food is distinguished by using an abundance of local ingredients and has gradually devolved its fame in home cooking, stir-fry, banquet feast, lunchbox food, and local eatery food. When eating Taiwanese food, what you end up digesting is, in fact, the history and sentiments of the island.

A good Taiwanese meal consists of rice as the main carb, some staple dishes, and a soup (also, if you’d like, Taiwanese beer), eaten around a table in good company, which is the soul of Taiwanese food. I recommend Shin Yeh, a Taiwanese food restaurant of such popularity that there are several locations from Shungcheng Street to Taipei 101; go try the Taiwanese home cooking for which they are famed. Fong Sheng Restaurant offers both home cooking and luxurious gourmet food. Lu Sang, known for their Yilan cuisine, is a fine example of delicious and economical dining. Another favorite is A-Hua, located on Civic Boulevard, where you can enjoy delicious seafood stir fry. TANG serves creative Taiwanese food that incorporates Western cooking.    [FULL  STORY]

Post his divorce he became a migrant worker and would carry his daughter’s dead body with him everywhere he went in a black bin bag

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/10/21
By: Juvina Lai, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)– A man in Kaohsiung surnamed Lin (林) walked into a police

station in Kaohsiung on Thursday night with a bin bag which contained the dead body of his one-month-old daughter whom he killed 12 years ago.

Lin, 43, who works in a rural factory, confessed to the police after he saw the recent news of Taiwanese parents killing their children in Yunlin. He told the police it was his guilty conscience and the recent case that gave him the courage to come forward and turn himself in.

According to Lin’s confession he had “accidentally” killed his daughter in the year 2005 as he had lost his temper because she wouldn’t stop crying while he was bottle-feeding her.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/21
By: Worthy Shen and Kuan-lin Liu 

Taipei, Oct. 21 (CNA) A Serbian mayor visiting Taiwan died on Saturday after passing out during a luncheon in Yilan and being rushed to nearby National Yang-Ming University Hospital.

According to local media reports, the mayor, whose name was not officially disclosed for privacy reasons, was having lunch at Luna Plaza at about noon when he lost consciousness.

Despite being immediately taken to National Yang-Ming University Hospital, doctors were unable to revive him and he was pronounced dead at 1:25 p.m.    [FULL  STORY]

PROJECT:China’s Fujian Provincial Government Education Department plans to recruit 1,000 top Taiwanese academics for its universities by 2020, a ‘Xiamen News’ report said

Taipei Times
Date: Oct 22, 2017
By: Lin Hsiao-yun  /  Staff reporter, with CNA

The nation’s top academics are leaving the nation due to low wages and a worsening

research environment, National Taiwan University (NTU) interim president Kuo Tei-wei (郭大維) said yesterday, warning against a possible collapse of the nation’s higher education system.

China’s Fujian Provincial Government Education Department has announced a plan to recruit 1,000 top Taiwanese academics to teach at its universities by 2020, a department report cited by the Chinese-language Xiamen News said on Friday.

The department intends to promote bilateral collaboration between Taiwan and China’s Fujian Province in certain disciplines and, long-term, to open universities, junior colleges and vocational schools in collaboration with Taiwanese academics, the report said.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen’s New Southbound Policy has raised awareness of the South Asian and Southeast Asian countries that it targets, but is struggling to strike meaningful deals in the face of mounting Chinese diplomatic and economic opposition.

The News Lens
Date: 2017/10/20
By: Kwei-Bo Huang

In search of greater regional connectivity, Taiwan’s ‘New Southbound Policy’ (NSP)

has progressed from the research and planning stage to large-scale implementation.

The NSP has been one of the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) signature policies since President Tsai Ing-wen took office in May 2016. It is an inter-regional initiative calling for more attention to be given to 18 countries across Southeast Asia and South Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand.

The NSP, viewing India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam as the prioritised countries, faces obvious political barriers resulting from Taiwan’s restrained ties with countries in the region and sour cross-Strait relations. Consequently, while the Office of Trade Negotiations plays a crucial and probably leading role with individual NSP target countries, the Tsai administration claims to have relinquished the leading position to Taiwan’s business and industrial sectors.
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Relatives of the attacker came to identify his body while victim’s parents are waiting for their son’s recovery in the emergency room

Taiwan News  
Date: 2017/10/20
By:  Taiwan News

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A horrifying acid attack at the National Taiwan University

(NTU) campus resulted in the death of the attacker and injuries for three victims, with parents from both sides coming forward Friday.

At midnight Oct. 19, a male graduate student from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech) surnamed Chang (張) became involved in a heated argument with a student surnamed Hsieh (謝), which escalated with Chang tossing acid, and injuring Hsieh, another student named Lo (駱) and a female security guard named Ku (谷) before committing suicide, reports said.

Chang found dead at the scene while Hsieh was immediately sent to the emergency room.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/21
By: Wang Shu-fen and Y.F. Low 

Taipei, Oct. 21 (CNA) Strengthening northeasterly winds sent the mercury down to 19.4 degrees Celsius in New Taipei’s Tamsui District at 2:28 a.m. Saturday, the lowest temperature recorded in Taiwan’s flatland areas so far this autumn, the Central Weather Bureau said.

Temperatures also saw significant fall in other parts of northern Taiwan early Saturday, with a low of 20 degrees recorded in Hsinchu, 20.1 degrees in New Taipei’s Banqiao District, and 20.4 degrees in Taipei, CWB data showed.    [FULL  STORY]

A HEATED DISPUTE:Two students and one security guard were burned with sulfuric acid when an argument between an alleged couple turned violent

Taipei Times
Date: Oct 21, 2017
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

Taipei police were yesterday investigating an acid attack at a National Taiwan

University (NTU) dormitory, where the alleged perpetrator is suspected of having committed suicide after harming three people, one of whom is believed to be his former boyfriend.

The suspect, a 25-year-old National Taiwan University of Science and Technology graduate surnamed Chang (張), apparently killed himself with a fruit knife.

Chang went to the dormitory in the early hours of yesterday morning to speak with a 23-year-old NTU Department of Psychology graduate student surnamed Hsieh (謝), Daan Police Precinct Deputy Chief Huang Kuo-chen (黃國珍) said.

Chang reportedly had a heated argument with Hsieh, who was with another NTU student, surnamed Luo (駱), in the dormitory’s guest meeting room, police said.
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