Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/08/30
By Lee Hsin-Yin, CNA staff reporter

The motto of the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei may be “For You, For Youth,” but the legacy of the games for the Taiwanese public is something even bigger — everyone in Taiwan remembering themselves being young and proud together.

During the Aug. 19-30 sporting event, Taiwan snagged a record-breaking 26 golds, 34 silvers and 30 bronzes, far surpassing the estimate of 12 golds from Taiwan’s Sports Administration.

Many local athletes attributed their outstanding performances to the heartfelt support of the public, adding that it was the sense of “defending home court” that brought out the best in them.

Taiwanese weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun (郭婞淳), who defeated the Olympic champion and lifted 142 kg to break a 10-year-old world record for clean & jerk in the women’s weightlifting 58kg weight class on Aug. 21, described exactly that experience.
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CONTEMPORARY TRENDSTaipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said the Games allowed Taiwan to befriend the world, while the vice president said visitors would be welcomed back

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 31, 2017
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

The 12-day Taipei Summer Universiade yesterday ended with a festive closing

ceremony at the Taipei Municipal Stadium featuring diverse cultural performances.

The ceremony showcased a modern mix of contemporary Taiwanese and international music, integrating local musical instruments with modern dance performances, as well as indie rock, pop, electronic and Aboriginal music.

As night fell, the prologue began at 6:30pm with “Indie Formosa” — 10 songs combining influences from Taiwanese, Hakka and Aboriginal cultures, performed by six groups with diverse music styles, one or two groups at a time.

The groups were Sibongie African Drumming and Dance Crew, indie rock band Zenkwun (神棍樂團), Paiwan pop singer Ah-bao (阿爆), the award-winning Sizhukong Jazz Band (絲竹空爵士樂團), rock band The Chairman (董事長) and Chio-Tian Folk Drums and Arts.    [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: August 30, 2017
By: The China Post

Taipei concluded the 2017 Summer Universiade in style Wednesday evening, with a

riveting closing ceremony capping 13 days of competition. During a press conference earlier in the day, International University Sports Federation (FISU) President Oleg Matytsin praised the city for putting on a highly successful event, saying that the hosts had provided athletes with particularly great competition venues. He went on to thank Taipei on behalf of all participating athletes for a wonderful experience.

Joining Matytsin at a press conference, FISU Secretary General and CEO Eric Saintrond, Taipei Universiade organizing committee chief exec Su Li-chung, German javelin athlete Andreas Hofmann and host city weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun all agreed that the Universiade had been a tremendous success.

Universiade competition officially ended Wednesday with the conclusion of the men’s water polo final. Host team Chinese Taipei ranked third overall on the final medal tally, bagging 90 medals comprising 26 golds, 34 silvers and 30 bronzes. The top winner at the event was Japan, which took home 101 medals, including 37 golds, followed by South Korea, which earned 82 medals, with 30 golds. The third-place finish is Chinese Taipei’s best Universiade result ever.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/08/29
By: George Liao, Taiwan News

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)–On Tuesday a team of security officers from the Universiade’s U.S. delegation visited the National Police Agency (NPA) to express their gratitude for the Taiwan police’s efforts to provide a safe and secure environment during the Taipei 2017 Summer Universiade.

As the Universiade, hosting 131 countries and over 10,000 participants, will close on Wednesday, August 30, Taiwan police and the organizer’s staff have been working 24 hours a day to make sure the event will proceed smoothly and safely. Beginning with the preparation process for the event, the NPA of the Ministry of the Interior have maintained close contacts with the embassies and representative offices in Taiwan, exchanging anti-terrorism intelligence with relevant nations, and strengthening the preparation of security measures.
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Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/08/29
By Chang Ming-hsuan and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, Aug. 29 (CNA) The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) issued a statement

on Tuesday reminding vendors who want to label their products as health foods that the limit on free sugar content in registered health food products is 25 grams.

To promote a reduction of sugar contained in health foods, the ministry amended its “Health Food Registration Review Guideline” on July 17 to stipulate that no more than 25 grams of free sugars can be added to products labeled as “health foods.”

Furthermore, health food products containing more than 17 grams of free sugars must include a health warning label that discloses the amount of added free sugars in the product based on the product’s recommended serving size and urges consumers to limit their energy intake.

This sugar-specific amendment to the guidelines was made with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation of daily energy intake in mind.
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BONANZA:The nation won four bad taking it to third place in the medals table, with world No. 1 Tai Tzu-ying beating Lee Jangmi to win the women’s singles

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 30, 2017

By: Shelley Shan and Jason Pan / Staff reportersminton golds,

Taiwan’s medal tally at the Taipei Summer Universiade yesterday surged to 26 gold

medals, 34 silvers and 30 bronzes following extraordinary performances by the nation’s badminton, table tennis and tennis teams on the final day of competition in most sports.

As of press time last night, the nation was third on the medal stable, with Japan first and South Korea second.

In badminton, Wang Chi-ling (王齊麟) and Lee Chia-hsin (李佳馨) won gold in the mixed doubles final. Although they lost the first game 21-12 to Malaysia’s Nur Mohd Azyriyn Ayub and Goh Yea Ching, Wang and Lee secured first place by winning the remaining games 21-16, 21-14.

The winning momentum continued as world No. 1 Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) clinched another gold medal by toppling South Korea’s Lee Jangmi in straight sets 21-9, 21-13 in 22 minutes.   [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: August 29, 2017
By: Special to The China Post

To celebrate Chinese Taipei’s best Universiade performance ever, a “Taiwan Heroes

Parade” will be held on Thursday. Home team athletes including gold medal-winning weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun and gymnast Lee Chih-kai will be on the floats and will no doubt receive a rousing reception from the public all along the route.

The 2017Taipei Universiade is the largest and most elite-level sports event ever held in Taiwan. It has set off a sports craze in the country, with ticket sales exceeding 80 percent and host team athletes claiming far more than the 11 gold medals predicted. The Ministry of Education and the Taipei City Government said they were jointly organizing the parade — which will include world record-breaking and gold medal-winning athletes — in order to express gratitude to the athletes for the fighting spirit they had displayed and the moving moments they had created during the games.    [FULL  STORY]

A tuberculosis epidemic, a church, and one lucky break sent Chinese Manhattanites to Bradley Beach.

The News Lens
Date: 2017/08/28
By: Eveline Chao

One day in 1941, Lee Ng Shee went for a stroll in Bradley Beach, New Jersey. She

was the wife of a prominent merchant in New York City Chinatown named Lee B. Lok, who in 1891 had established Quong Yuen Shing & Company, a general store on Mott Street. The family liked to spend their summers on the Jersey Shore, though it was a challenge to find landlords who would rent to nonwhites. Lee Ng Shee was passing a house on Newark Avenue, stepping carefully on her bound feet, when a woman came out on the porch. “Are you looking for a house?” the woman called out. “Would you like to buy this one?”

Lee knew a deal when she heard one. “Two thousand dollars later, Lee B. Lok and family were ensconced in a summer bungalow of their very own in the village where twenty years before they would have been lucky to be able to rent some rooms over a store,” wrote Bruce Edward Hall in his Chinatown memoir Tea That Burns.
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The top 5 best gifts to give your significant other on Qixi Festival in Taiwan

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/08/28
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Qixi Festival or Chinese Valentine’s Day is here again and the

online data analysis web site DailyView has generated a list of the five best gifts to give on this day.

On the lunar calendar, Qixi falls on the seventh day of the seventh month, thus it is also called Double Seventh. Originally a celebration of the once annual reunion of a mythical cowherd and weaver girl, its was traditionally not a an occasion when gifts are exchanged, but has in recent years been commercialized. This adds to anxiety to couples over what gifts to give in addition to the Western Valentine’s Day and the Japanese White Day, both of which have been adopted in Taiwan as well.

Using information from its Keypo big data search engine, DailyView has generated the following list of the top five best gifts to give on Chinese Valentine’s Day:
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Focus Taiwan
Date: 017/08/28
By: Huang Li-yun and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Aug. 28 (CNA) State-run Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) wants to replace corroded electricity transmission pylons in Yunlin County by the end of this year, a Taipower official said Monday, but is being stymied by local landlords.

Hsiao Sheng-jen (蕭勝任), a chief engineer at Taipower’s transmission unit, was responding to a newspaper report that eight power pylons in Yunlin County, Changhua County and Taoyuan were found to be heavily rusted.

The Apple Daily newspaper cited an expert who said that the old rusted pylons could collapse in an earthquake or be blown down by strong winds, triggering a chain reaction that could lead neighboring pylons to tilt as they are connected by high-tension power cables.    [FULL STORY]