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Number of dengue fever cases nears 30,000

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-11-03
By: By Lee Hsin-Yin, Central News Agency

Taipei, Nov. 3 (CNA) The number of dengue fever cases reported since the start of May could soon break the 30,000 threshold, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on Tuesday.

As of Monday, 29,921 cases were seen islandwide, an increase of 337 cases from the previous day, the CDC said. The outbreak remains concentrated in the southern Taiwan cities of Tainan and Kaohsiung, where 21,874 and 7,521 cases were seen, respectively.

The CDC data showed that the epidemic continues to surge in Kaohsiung, where a record-high daily increase of 252 cases was reported. However, the situation in Tainan has been abating, with 76 new cases seen overnight, the agency said. In 2014, Taiwan reported 15,732 dengue fever cases, the highest annual number since the authorities began keeping such records. Previous to that, the highest number of cases recorded in a single year was around 2,000, both in 2007 and 2010

Minister vows to deal with swindling ‘pests’ at Shilin night market

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/11/03
By: Chen Chun-hua and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Nov. 3 (CNA) Fruit vendors at Shilin Night Market (士林夜市), one of Taipei’s

CNA file photo

popular tourist attractions, came under the spotlight again Tuesday as a government minister said the “pests” who overcharge foreign visitors must be exposed.

Responding to a lawmaker who raised the issue in a legislative plenary session, Transportation Minister Chen Jian-yu (陳建宇) said that while he believed the practice of overcharging foreign buyers was limited to just a few fruit vendors, he will take steps to address the matter.

Citing recent local media reports, Kuomintang lawmaker Tsai Chin-lung (蔡錦隆) said in the Legislature that fruit vendors at Shilin night market have been swindling foreign tourists, charging up to NT$1,250 (US$39) for a small bag of fresh fruit slices. [FULL STORY]

US to operate ‘wherever’ law allows in S China Sea

Taipei Times
Date: Nov 04, 2015
By: AFP, BEIJING

The US military will continue to operate wherever international law allows, a top US

US Admiral Harry Harris of US Pacific Command, left, chats with Chinese Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Fan Changlong before their meeting at the Bayi Building in Beijing yesterday. Photo: AP

admiral said in Beijing yesterday, a week after Washington infuriated Beijing by sailing close to artificial islands it is building in the South China Sea.

“International seas and airspace belong to everyone and are not the dominion of any single nation,” US Admiral Harry Harris said at the Stanford Center at Peking University.

“Our military will continue to fly, sail, and operate whenever and wherever international law allows. The South China Sea is not — and will not — be an exception,” he said, according to a transcript.

Harris is the head of the US Pacific Command and his public declaration in the Chinese capital is a mark of US resolve over the waterway, where Beijing has built up rocks and reefs into artificial islands with facilities for military use. [FULL STORY]

Tsai warns KMT

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-11-03
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai

Tsai warns KMT. Central News Agency (2015-11-03 18:16:41)

Ing-wen on Tuesday warned the Kuomintang government not to harm Taiwan’s democracy by using any means possible to win the January 16 elections.

With only about 70 days left until polling day for a new president and for the Legislative Yuan, Tsai has managed to stay the frontrunner in opinion polls despite the KMT changing candidates last October 17, naming its chairman Eric Liluan Chu as its new contender.

Tsai said she had to remind the ruling camp that under the present situation, it should not use any means possible to provoke change which would harm Taiwan’s democracy and the national interest.

She specifically singled out the KMT’s advantages as the ruling party, allowing it to benefit from state resources during the campaign. [FULL STORY]

Death toll from water park explosion rises to 14 (update)

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/11/03
By: Wang Shu-fen and Y.F. Low

Taipei, Nov. 3 (CNA) A woman died of sepsis and hepatic failure Tuesday after suffering severe burns in an explosion at the Formosa Fun Coast water park (八仙樂園) in New Taipei four months ago, bringing the death toll from the tragedy to 14.

However, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said it cannot accept the latest fatality as a fire explosion victim until the prosecution officially deems it so.

Wu Wen-yi (吳玟儀) was admitted to Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital with burns to 52 percent of her body in the wake of the explosion and was discharged on Oct. 11.

However, she was readmitted to the hospital on Oct. 23 because her jaundice and liver enzyme levels were too high. [FULL STORY]

New School of Curators

Taiwan Review
Date: November 1, 2015
By GLENN SMITH

The explosive growth in the number of museums in Taiwan presents opportunities and

The island’s first museum, the National Taiwan Museum in Taipei City, was founded in 1908. (Photo by Huang Chung-hsin)

challenges for the next generation of museologists.

The tremendous rise in the number of museums in Taiwan over the past few decades has been a boon not just for tourists and those interested in the country’s history and heritage, but also for graduates with degrees in arts management, cultural policy, relic conservation and, most particularly, museology—the study of museums. Students in these disciplines enjoy better employment prospects than those in many other liberal arts fields, says Chen Chia-li (陳佳利), director of the Graduate Institute of Museum Studies at Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). “My husband, who is a musicologist at another university, is amazed at our ability to place students in jobs,” she stresses.

The transformation of the island’s museum landscape has presented students with a greater diversity of roles to choose from as well as a greater number of positions to apply for. “We want our students to find a job they’re truly interested in,” Chen says, “so we don’t necessarily encourage them to go to the big museums. Some work in private institutions, which often provide good learning environments because there’s less bureaucracy.” [FULL STORY]

INTERVIEW: Huang-Peng partnership outlines vision for NPP

WANT WANT POLITICS?Legislative candidates Huang Kuo-chang and Neil Peng said their friendship began at protests against a possible media monopoly forming

Taipei Times
Date: Nov 03, 2015
By: Lin Hsin-han and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer

What brought former Academia Sinica researcher Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) and award-

New Power Party legislative candidate Neil Peng speaks in Taipei on Aug. 31. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times

winning screenwriter and author Neil Peng (馮光遠) to devote themselves to politics, especially when the former had once sworn never to be affiliated with any political party and the latter had assigned himself the role of political adviser?

Both are running for legislative seats under New Power Party (NPP) banner.

Huang, elected NPP executive chairman in September, is poised to register his candidacy for New Taipei City’s 12th constituency, which includes Sijhih (汐止), Jinshan (金山), Wanli (萬里), Rueifang (瑞芳), Pingsi (平溪), Shuangsi (雙溪) and Gongliao (貢寮) districts.

Huang said he was mainly inspired by civil movements in 2013. [FULL STORY]

Watch: Taiwan presidential frontrunner officially endorses marriage equality ‘Before love, everyone is equal’

Tsai Ing-wen is widely expected to become Taiwan’s first female president in January.

Gay Star News
Date: 02 November 2015
By Darren Wee

Tsai is the chairwoman of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party and is widely

Tsai Ing-wen is widely expected to become Taiwan’s first female president in January.

expected to become the island’s first female president in January.

‘Before love, everyone is equal,’ she said in a 15-second video posted on her Facebook page Saturday (31 October) to coincide with Taiwan Pride – the largest of its kind in Asia.

‘I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality,’ she continued.

‘Let everyone be able to freely love and pursue happiness.’

Earlier in the week, the Democratic Progressive Party lit up its election campaign headquarters in rainbow colors and Tsai shared another video celebrating gay couples ahead of the weekend’s festivities: [FULL STORY]

Taipei City Hall to disinfect its office floors after dengue contract

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-11-02
By: Ko Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

An employee working at the Taipei City government has been confirmed to have

City confirms dengue contract in Taipei. Central News Agency

contracted dengue fever, reports said Monday.

A female public servant aged 31, who had visited Kaohsiung’s Xiaoliuchiu island between November 16 and 18, succumbed to fever four days after returning to Taipei. She was later admitted to a local hospital last Thursday as her symptoms failed to show signs of improvement.

The Taipei City government has called on health authorities to begin spraying pesticides on all three floors of its office building later in the evening to contain further spread of the mosquito-borne disease.

The case on Monday was the second indigenous dengue fever accounted in Taipei from Kaohsiung, according to the city’s health department. [FULL STORY]

Taiwan to take steps to defend South China Sea sovereignty

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/11/02
By: Tai Ya-chen and S.C. Chang

Taipei, Nov. 2 (CNA) The Executive Yuan said Monday that it will take all necessary steps to defend the Republic of China’s sovereignty and maritime rights over its territorial islands in the South China Sea.

The Cabinet’s statement was Taiwan’s latest response to a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Netherlands last week that it has jurisdiction to hear a Philippines complaint against China.

In the complaint, the Philippines argued that China’s “nine-dashed line” territorial claim over South China Sea waters is unlawful under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. [FULL STORY]

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