Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/03
By: Claudia Liu and Jay Chen

Taipei, Sept. 3 (CNA) Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱), the presidential candidate of the

ruling Kuomintang (KMT), has not withdrawn from the race, a senior party official said late Wednesday after Hung announced a suspension of her campaign.

Asked whether Hung’s announcement, which came in a Facebook post, indicated that she might drop out of the presidential race, KMT Deputy Secretary-General Chiang Cheng-yen (江政彥) said: “Absolutely not!”

Chiang said he has contacted Hung’s close aide after learning of her announcement and was reassured that the move had nothing to do with quitting.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-09-02
By: Ko Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je went on an impromptu inspection of the city’s water

treatment plant Wednesday after having held a brief discussion with colleagues from the Taipei Water Department over lunch.

Ko later posted on his Facebook page saying he was still worried after having discovered that the Taipei Water Department is still getting murky water from the Nanshih River.

The mayor urged the Central government to take a decisive action to solve the Nanshih River problem, or the city will otherwise have to deal with turbid water after the next typhoon sweeps across Taiwan.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/02
By: Lee Hsi-chang and Christie Chen

Taipei, Sept. 2 (CNA) A Taiwanese fisherman landed an unexpected catch

Wednesday when he hauled in his nets to find four missiles inside.

The fisherman, from eastern Taiwan’s Taitung County, was fishing in waters off Pingtung County’s Jiupeng Base (九鵬基地), a major center for military missile tests, when he made the unexpected catch from his boat.

The unnamed fisherman, who is captain of the vessel, ordered his crew to carefully pull in the net.

After inspecting the four missiles, the captain threw three of them back overboard because they were severely damaged, but kept the fourth, as it seemed to be in better shape.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-09-02
By: CNA and Staff Reporter

Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a commemorative event Tuesday, on

the eve of the 70th anniversary of the day Japan formally submitted the instrument of surrender to end World War II, bringing with it the end to the Republic of China’s War of Resistance against Japan, or Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).

The event to mark the anniversary was attended by President Ma Ying-jeou, foreign minister David Lin, and other senior government officials and foreign diplomats.

The eight-year war against Japan, which became a theater of WWII with the American entry into the conflict, was the largest-scale war in the history of the Chinese people, Ma said at the event. The unrelenting effort of the ROC military made it possible to achieve victory over the much more modernized Japanese military at the time, he added.     [FULL  STORY]

‘SPECTATE MY ASS’:Former minister Kuan Chung-ming said Lien had seriously denigrated the KMT’s role in the Second Sino-Japanese War and elevated the CCP

Taipei Times
Date:  Sep 03, 2015
By: Staff writer, with CNA

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday expressed regret over a claim by

Beijing that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forces played a significant role in the victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War, while a former high-ranking Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) official put it more bluntly, accusing former vice president Lien Chan (連戰) of being “disgraceful and belittling himself” over his insistence on attending a military parade to commemorate the end of the war in China today.

During a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) in Beijing on Tuesday, Lien said: “The [then-]Chinese Nationalist Party forces led by Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) fought a series of decisive and major battles on the front lines and dealt the Japanese military a heavy blow, and the Chinese Communist Party forces led by Mao Zedong (毛澤東) effectively pinned down and crushed the Japanese and the collaborationist armies on the battlefield behind enemy lines.”     [FULL  STORY]

The Sun Daily
Date: 1 September 2015

HUANG Yung-fu greets visitors to his village in central Taiwan with paint-stained hands and shoes spattered with flecks of colour, a sign of the daily artistic labour that has seen him single-handedly stave off the developers’ bulldozers.

At 93 years old, the former soldier still gets up at 3am every day to spend four hours daubing the walls of the small settlement with colourful figures, from birds and animals to celebrity singers and sportsmen.

Known as ‘Rainbow Grandpa’, Huang’s artwork has kept the village safe as the surrounding area has been flattened.     [FULL  STORY]

• Student Guan-Hao Pan has created clever new packaging for condoms
     
• Available in five different sized containers – the biggest has a 5cm diameter
     
• Men can choose cucumber, carrot, banana, turnip or courgette condoms
     
• Can be distributed in vending machines, so embarrassment is avoided

  The Daily Mail
  Date: 1 September 2015
  By Jenny Stanton For Mailonline

  A quirky student from Taiwan is hoping to prevent unplanned pregnancies

  

  Packaging: Men can opt for cucumber, carrot, banana, turnip or courgette, depending on their penis size

  and the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases with the help of fruit and vegetables.

  Guan-Hao Pan, who studies at the National Taipei University of Technology, has created Love Guide condoms, which allow men to find the right size by simply holding the packaging.

  The condoms are available in five different sized containers, ranging from the smallest – cucumber – through to a courgette with a diameter of 5cm.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/01
By: Kuo Chung-han

Taipei, Sept. 1 (CNA) A magnitude-4.8 earthquake rattled Taiwan’s southwest

coast Tuesday afternoon, with light shaking felt in the southern city of Kaohsiung.

The quake occurred at 5:34 p.m., with its epicenter located at sea 72 kilometers west southwest of the monitoring station at Kaohsiung City Hall, at a depth of 47.3 km.

Tremors with an intensity of 2 on Taiwan’s 7-tier scale were recorded in Kaohsiung, while Tainan and Liuqiu Township in Pingtung County recorded an intensity of 1.

As of 7:20 p.m., there were no reports of injury or loss of property.

Asia One
Date:  Sep 1, 2015

TAIPEI – A Taiwanese district court Tuesday found a Chinese man guilty of recruiting local military officers to spy for Beijing and sentenced him to four years in jail.

Zhen Xiaojiang, who served in China’s army, was charged in January with violating national security law along with six Taiwanese military officials.

“The defendant Zhen followed orders from the Chinese Communist army… arranged frequent, long meetings to introduce active and retired officials to mainland military officials,” according to a statement posted on the court’s website.

“This not only shakes the morale of the national army, but also threatens the development of (Taiwan’s) security,” it said.    [FULL  STORY]