Want CVhina Times
Daste: 2015-09-08
By: CNA

A total of 65.5% of office workers in Taiwan are planning to leave their current jobs in the

fourth quarter, citing low salaries and a lack of prospects as the main reasons, according to a survey released Monday by an online job broker.

On average, the workers expect to receive NT$38,272 (US$1,170) per month on average at their new jobs, the survey by yes123.com.tw revealed.

The average salary being offered by companies, however, is NT$30,934 (US$945) per month, a figure that is NT$7,338 (US$224) less than what the workers are expecting, according to the poll.

Only 13.3% of workers are optimistic that the number of job opportunities will increase in the last three months of the year from the previous quarter, while 40.8% think there will be a decrease, and 45.9% do not expect any change.     [FULL  STORY]

Wu Ming-yi spent his summer holiday biking around Taiwan to promote his latest work of fiction

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 08, 2015
By: Tony Coolidge  /  Contributing reporter

Novelists usually pursue fame and book sales through publicists, book fairs and social media,

but Wu Ming-yi’s (吳明益) approach has been far from typical. The novelist and academic spent the summer holiday riding an antique bicycle around Taiwan, meeting fans and giving lectures at small, independent bookstores to promote his book, The Stolen Bicycle (單車失竊記).

“People appreciate the opportunity to connect with me more intimately in these small spaces,” Wu told a standing-room-only audience at Tainan’s Lingo Bookstore (林檎二手書室). He added that he was a marketing major in college, and it was ironic that he chose to go against everything he learned about marketing and promotion.

Wu says he enjoys sharing the knowledge that he learned about Taiwan’s flora and fauna in his research papers, and started building a following that appreciated his message of ecological conservation. Eventually, he began toying with the introduction of creative fiction to enhance his message, and his career as a novelist developed.     [FULL  STORY]

Wamt China Times
Date: 2015-09-07
By: CNA

A Taiwanese tourist was killed and four others injured at the Jinding Scenic

Resort on Mount Emei in southwest China’s Sichuan province on Saturday, Taiwan’s Tourism Bureau confirmed on Sunday.

A 48-year-old woman surnamed Wu died after she was caught in a landslide after heavy rain. She and her tour group had been scheduled to leave Saturday afternoon, according to the bureau.

Four other members of the group suffered head injuries and are undergoing treatment at Emeishan City Hospital, the bureau said.     [FULL  STORY]

‘DEVOID OF CONTENT’:The reporters arrested at the Ministry of Education break-in said it reads like a grade-school report, only asking police to examine their attitude

Taipei Times
Date:  Sep 08, 2015
By: Lu Heng-chien  /  Staff reporter

The three journalists arrested while covering an intrustion into the Ministry of

Education compound on July 23 yesterday said the report released by the Taipei City Government on the incident does not shed any light on the key questions surrounding the arrests.

Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper) photographer Liao Chen-hui (廖振輝), Sung Hsiao-hai (宋小海) of news Web site Coolloud.org.tw (苦勞網) and freelance journalist Lin Yu-yu (林雨佑) were among 33 people arrested the day after a group of student activists entered the building to protest adjustments to the high-school curriculum guidelines.     [FULL  STORY]