LOSING MOMENTUM:Taiwan’s Yang Chun-han, winner of the men’s 100m earlier in the week, clocked 21.07 seconds in the 200m to finish in seventh place

Tipei Times
Date: Aug 27, 2017
By: Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNA

Cheng Chao-tsun (鄭兆村) yesterday added another gold medal to Taiwan’s tally at the

Taipei Summer Universiade and set a Universiade javelin record of 91.36m, while Yang Chun-han (楊俊瀚) failed to live up to expectations after winning the men’s 100m on Thursday, finishing seventh in the men’s 200m final.

At press time last night, the nation’s athletes had won 17 gold medals, 22 silvers and 14 bronzes.

Huang Shih-feng (黃士鋒) took bronze in the men’s javelin final with a score of 86.64, while Germany’s Andreas Emil Hofmann took silver.

Cheng’s throw broke the previous Universiade record set by Italy’s Marius Corbett in 1997.    [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: August 26, 2017

The 42-kilometer roller sports marathon took place Friday, making the Taipei

Universiade the world’s first international sports tournament to host the event. Chinese Taipei’s Yang Ho-chen and Lee Meng-chu made it a memorable maiden outing, taking gold and silver for the host team, respectively. Yang added the gold to her existing haul of four golds and one bronze, becoming the most decorated athlete of this year’s Universiade.

The event comprises 10 laps of a 4.2-km circuit, testing athletes’ speed and stamina. Yang and Lee sped up toward the end of the event to clinch the two top spots, adding more medals to Chinese Taipei’s coffers following success in the 10,000m points elimination, 1,000m sprint and 15,000m elimination events.

Yang took gold with a time of 1:27:43. “Before the Universiade, (I) didn’t expect to win a specific number of gold medals — I only wanted to give my best,” she said. “Without my coach (Wu Chiung-chu), I wouldn’t be who I am today.” This was particularly well demonstrated before the marathon event, when Wu realized that the men’s top three athletes used relatively small wheels. He discussed this with Yang and the two decided on a last-minute wheel change — something the result reflected was a good call, according to Yang.    [FULL  STORY]

LONG PROCESS:Lawmakers voted against at least 75 KMT motions last night, each of which proposed to cut the infrastructure plan budget by 0.1 to 1 percentage point

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 26, 2017
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter

Lawmakers yesterday voted on motions on the budget for the Forward-looking

Infrastructure Development Program even as the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucuses were in disagreement over how to address the motions.

KMT caucus secretary-general Lin Wei-chou (林為洲) said that during “informal talks” before a negotiation scheduled yesterday morning, the DPP caucus rejected the KMT’s demand that all of its motions be voted on and withdrew the window of negotiation.

That prompted the KMT to reverse its decision to reduce its number of motions from about 10,400 to 1,200, Lin said.   [FULL  STORY]

If it is true, Lin Yu-ru’s story may go a long way in explaining how her life deteriorated to the point that she decided to kill her husband. Does it also mean that one of Taiwan’s most infamous serial killers isn’t responsible for the death of her mother and mother-in-law?

The News Lens
Date: 2017/08/25
By: Edward White

On January 26, 2010, a 29-year-old woman sat in a police interrogation room in Taiwan and confessed to killing her mother, her mother-in-law and her husband. Their deaths had occurred over the previous two years but police had only become suspicious of Lin Yu-ru (林于如) when an insurance company alerted them that Lin had claimed hundreds of thousands of dollars in life insurance after each death.

When news of her arrest broke, Lin was swiftly branded as a “Black Widow” and set upon by Taiwan’s piranha-like tabloid media. She was immediately guilty in the eyes of the country’s prosecutors.

Three and a half years later, despite partially retracting her confession – she now says she only killed her husband – and the acknowledgement by a judge that her low IQ clearly met the threshold for intellectual disability, the Supreme Court handed down its final sentence and Lin, then 32, became the only woman on death row in Taiwan. Today, Lin is in a prison in Taichung, central Taiwan, awaiting her fate.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News visited the Universiade athletes’ village and interviewed the athletes about their impressions of Taiwan

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/08/25
By: Rana Yeh, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwanese bubble milk tea wins the first place of the

must-eat Taiwanese foods among the Universiade athletes.

As the 2017 Universiade keeps rolling forward in Taipei, around 12,000 delegates from 131 countries are now living in the athletes’ village in Linkou District, New Taipei City. Taiwan News visited the athletes’ village on August 23 and interviewed the athletes about their impressions of Taiwan so far.

The athletes were asked to vote for the Taiwanese food they would like to try the most from the four most popular Taiwanese traditional items: stinky tofu, bubble milk tea, a-thousand-year-old egg, and oyster omelette. The bubble milk tea ranked the first of the most popular Taiwanese foods for the athletes and won 50% of all the votes, followed by oyster omelette (32%) and a-thousand-year-old egg (13%).
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The China Post
Date: August 25, 2017
By: The China Post

The 2017 Taipei Universiade recruited a total of 18,000 volunteers. Many of them

are international volunteers who flew to Taiwan from around the world to work shoulder to shoulder with local volunteers. International volunteers said that participating in this global sporting event was a rare experience they couldn’t have gotten in their home country.

Seven volunteers from around the world were invited to attend a press conference on Friday to share their Universiade experience. They were joined by Universiade Student Resources Director Wu Jing-sheng, Resource Application Director Huang Ching-kao and Social Resources Director Wu Kun-hung.

The Taipei Universiade recruited 12,000 student volunteers and 6,000 non-student applicants from Taiwan and overseas. Wearing green uniforms, these volunteers come and go as they do their work at the sporting venues, the Athletes’ Village and the media center.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-08-24

President Tsai Ing-wen met with Tanizaki Tasuaki, the president of the Japan-

Taiwan Exchange Association, on Thursday.

The association serves as the de facto embassy in the absence of formal diplomatic ties between Taiwan and Japan.

The president said during the meeting that Taiwan will grant Japanese tourists visas for longer stays to allow them to enjoy local culture. She said Taiwan is also going to open up to Japanese beef imports, while exporting pineapples to Japan.

Tsai also said that Taiwan is looking to further improve trade relations with Japan. She also said Taiwan is willing to make its contribution to regional peace and stability.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date; 2017/08/24
By: Yeh Su-ping, Tsao Yu-fan, and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, Aug. 24 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) took to Facebook on

Thursday to promote the launch of Taiwan’s first self-built satellite – FormoSat-5 – and included a link to the livestream channel for the public to join in and watch as its fired off into space.

In her post, Tsai noted that the first domestically developed satellite carried the skills and dreams of the Taiwanese people.

When answering questions at a pre-launch press conference, American Institute in Taiwan Chairman James Moriarty lauded the development of the remote sensing satellite as an incredible and memorable accomplishment.

He said he was not only looking forward to the launch on Friday but also the possibility of future scientific collaborations between Taiwan and the United States.
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