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President attends independence party of four ROC allies

Focus Taiwan
2015/09/14 21:42:02
By: Tang Pei-chun and Lilian Wu

Taipei, Sept. 14 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) spoke of the close relations between the Republic of China and four of its diplomatic allies in Central America when he attended a party in Taiwan on Monday to celebrate their independence.

The four were Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.

Ma said that he has made 11 overseas trips since he assumed office in 2008, and six of them were to Central America while dignitaries from the four countries have also visited Taiwan frequently.

The president also lauded the close exchanges and many cooperation projects that currently exist between Taiwan and its Central American allies. [FULL STORY]

Dengue fever continues to escalate in southern Taiwan

Taipei Times
Date: 2015-09-14
By: CNA

The number of dengue fever cases recorded in Taiwan since May has increased to 9,566,

A health worker sprays pesticide in Miaoli county, Sept. 14. (Photo/CNA)

with 98.35% of the infections occurring in the southern cities of Tainan and Kaohsiung, the country’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Monday.

The latest figure represents an increase of 463 cases from the previous day.

On Sunday, an increase of 407 cases was reported in Tainan from the previous day, bringing the southern city’s total to 8,429, according to the CDC. In neighboring Kaohsiung, the number had increased to 980, compared with 936 the day before, the CDC said.

By Sunday, the total number of dengue cases in the two cities in Taiwan’s tropical south had reached 9,409, the CDC said. [FULL STORY]

KMT announces fall legislative goals

SOLIDARITY:The party’s legislators called on KMT heavyweights to work together, as failure to do so, especially publicly, would put the results of next year’s elections at risk

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 15, 2015
By: Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNA

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government will prioritize passage of a cross-strait

Senior members of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) President Ma Ying-jeou, KMT Chairman Eric Chu, Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng and KMT presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu, left to right, listen to comments from a member during a forum held by the KMT’s Policy Committee to discuss the Legislature’s operations in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times

agreement on double taxation avoidance as well as bills on the budget, government restructuring and an all-volunteer military in the fall legislative session, Premier Mao Chi-kuo (毛治國) said yesterday.

Mao said the Cabinet would also push a special budget bill to finance a river basin management plan, an amendment to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to raise wages for their employees and legislation promoting industrial innovation.

He listed the government’s priorities at a forum held by the KMT’s Policy Committee to discuss the legislature’s operations and coordination with the government before the new session begins today.

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平), KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) and Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱), who is the party’s presidential candidate, were all present at the forum. [FULL STORY]

Police in Taiwan bust cam show website employing underage girls

Want China Times
Date: 2015-09-13
By: Tsao Ming-cheng and Staff Reporter

Police in Taiwan busted an illegal pornography ring providing naked cam shows whose

A young woman discovered chatting with a client online at her Kaohsiung home during one of the police raids, Sept. 10. (Photo/Tsao Ming-cheng)

models included underage girls on Sept. 9, arresting 13 managers and recruiters, our sister paper China Times reports.

Police raided several sites in Kaohsiung, Yilan, Changhua, Chiayi, Tainan and Pingtung, arresting general manager Chien Yu-ting and 12 recruiters. After further investigation, a total of 26 young women and high school students were revealed to be conducting naked cam shows online.

Chien, an engineer, founded the company six years ago and began building his cam network two years ago providing models for one-on-one and one-to-many cam shows.

In April, police discovered brokers hiring women to work as cam girls, with those recruited asked to engage in naked dancing and masturbation on camera. Chien also issued a wanted ad to recruit a young woman to serve as an anchorwoman for the company, offering monthly pay of NT$100,000 (US$3,000), five times the minimum wage. However, no one was ever actually paid the NT$100,000 advertised in the recruitment ad. [FULL STORY]

World famous Dutch DJ to perform in Taiwan

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/13
By: Jeffrey Wu

Taipei, Sept. 13 (CNA) Armin Van Buuren, one of the most influential DJs in the world, will

Armin Van Buuren (photo courtesy of the Netherlands Trade and Investment Office)

perform in Taiwan next week with two other renowned Dutch DJs Afrojack and Fedde Le Grand, according to the Netherlands Trade and Investment Office (NTIO).

The three Dutch DJs will participate in the Road to Ultra dance event at Taipei’s Dajia Riverside Park (大佳河濱公園) on Sept. 20, promising “a full day of great dance music” on the banks of the Keelung River, said the NTIO, the main Dutch office in Taiwan in the absence of diplomatic ties.

“Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big waves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made,” Armin Van Buuren was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the office. [FULL STORY]

Envoy to Vienna issued thousands of visas to Jews trapped in Austria during World War II.

The Jerusalem Post
Date: 09/13/2015
By: NIV ELIS

TAIPEI – Daniel Weihs, who served as the Science and Technology Ministry’s chief

Monto and Manli, the son and daughter of the late Chinese Consul-General in Vienna during 1938-40, Ho Feng Shan, display their “Righteous Among The Nations” awards in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial auditorium in Jerusalem. (photo credit:REUTERS)

scientist from 2010 to 2011 and currently heads the Technion’s robotics department, may have never lived if it were not for the efforts of a Chinese diplomat named Ho Feng- Shan.

It was Ho, China’s consul- general to Vienna during the early years of World War II, who went against his superiors’ orders and issued Weihs’s parents a visa to Shanghai, allowing them to escape Austria. They settled in Kweilin, where Weihs was born, and moved to Israel in 1949.

The Weihs were among thousands of Jews Ho rescued by issuing them visas to Shanghai, earning him the moniker “China’s Schindler.”

On Thursday, Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou, awarded a posthumous Presidential Citation to Ho, nearly 18 years after his death and 32 years after an apparently faux scandal cost Ho his diplomatic pension.

“This is a long delayed citation for Ambassador Ho,” Ma said at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace, in the presence of Ho’s daughter Manli Ho and Weihs. [FULL STORY]

City to unveil proposed bus fare hike in September

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-09-13
By: Ko Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je disclosed Sunday that the fare for public bus transportation in

City to unveil proposed bus fare hike in Sep. Central News Agency

Taipei may increase later this year, adding that the city’s Department of Transportation will unveil a proposed plan for new bus fares at the end of September.

The department’s director Chung Hui-yu said bus fares have remained unchanged for the last four years since 2011, explaining that bus operators have repeatedly called for a price hike due to rising maintenance costs of their imported low-floor buses.

In the last two years, low-floor buses were imported as part of the city government’s continuing efforts to offer friendly and convenient service for passengers, as well as to encourage the public to take advantage of Taipei’s public transportation. [FULL STORY]

Poster reveals Madonna to give first Taiwan concert in February

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/13
By: Christie Chen

Taipei, Sept. 13 (CNA) “Queen of Pop” Madonna is scheduled to hold her first concert in

Madonna in this undated file photo.

Taiwan on Feb. 4 next year, according to a promotional poster that was accidentally posted at a 7-Eleven convenience store.

Tickets to the “Rebel Heart Tour” concert will go on sale at 11 a.m. on Sept. 26 at http://ticket.7net.com.tw/ or at the 7-Eleven ibon kiosks, according to the information on the poster.

A photo of the poster was posted on the Madonna Taiwan Facebook fan page on Sunday. Information on the poster includes both the date and the venue — Taipei Arena.

Rumors about a Madonna concert in Taipei have surfaced since August, and concert promoter Live Nation Taiwan said in early September that it will announce whether or not there will be a concert on Sept. 15. [FULL STORY]

Dengue fever cases in Taiwan top 9,000, mostly in south

Want China Times
Date: 2015-09-13
By: CNA

The number of dengue fever cases in Taiwan recorded since May has increased to 9,103,

Military personnel spray pesticide at an elementary school in Taichung, Sept. 11. (Photo/CNA)

with 98.41% occurring in Tainan and Kaohsiung in the tropical south of the island, the national Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said on Sunday.

As of Saturday, 8,022 cases had been reported in Tainan, accounting for 88.12% of the total, an increase of 362 cases from the previous day, the CDC said.

Kaohsiung has had 936 cases, accounting for 10.29%, an increase of 51 cases from a day earlier.

Other cities and counties have had far fewer cases, with Pingtung reporting 33, Taichung 22, Taoyuan 19, New Taipei 16, Taipei 10, Chiayi county nine, Hsinchu county eight, Hsinchu city six, Changhua county five and Chiayi city four.

Keelung, Miaoli, Nantou and the outlying counties of Penghu and Kinmen have each reported two cases, while Yilan, Hualien and Yunlin counties have each had one case. No cases have been reported in Taitung county and outlying Lienchiang county (Matsu). [FULL STORY]

Police officer promotion ‘political’ move

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 13, 2015
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter

The former chief of Taipei’s Zhongzheng First Police Precinct, Fang Yang-ning (方仰寧),

Fang Yang-ning, former chief of Taipei’s Zhongzheng First Police Precinct interacts with P03-150913-p3Ethe media outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on April 1 last year. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times

has been appointed head of the Pingtung County Police Bureau in the latest personnel transfer of law-enforcement officials.

Fang was the police officer in charge of events during last year’s Sunflower movement.

He received condemnation for ordering police to forcibly remove protesters occupying the Executive Yuan’s main chamber on March 23 and March 24, during which large numbers of people were beaten by riot police and sustained injuries.

Fang was also a central figure during a post-legislature occupation event on April 11 last year, when hundreds of student protesters and their supporters assembled outside the Zhongzheng First Police Precinct to demonstrate against Fang after he announced a denial of all further requests by civic groups for rallies or sit-in protests in areas surrounging the legislature. [FULL STORY]

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