Taiwan News
Date: 2015-08-28
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Mike Hsu, the husband of entertainer Dee Hsu, better known as Little

S, was found not guilty by the Taipei District Court in an insider trading case surrounding Top Pot Bakery, but his father was sentenced to two years in prison.

After an investigation was launched in 2013 into the bakery chain because of its use of artificial flavorings going counter to its advertising, prosecutors unearthed an alleged case of insider trading.

Hsu’s husband Mike Hsu, his father Hsu Ching-hsiang, company president Hsu Hsun-ping and his wife Jiang Li-fen bought shares in Genome International Biomedical Co., Ltd. before it became the parent company of Top Pot Bakery and before Little S promoted the bread products.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/28
By: Chen Cheng-wei and Brook Hsiao

Taipei, Aug. 28 (CNA) Most convenient store chains in the greater Taipei area said on Friday that they will not sell EasyCards, stored value cards used for taking the subway, buses and other transportation, that feature Japanese porn star Yui Hatano.

7-Eleven and FamilyMart announced that they have already decided to not sell EasyCards featuring the porn star because the public has different opinions about this issue.

Hi-Life convenience store chain meanwhile announced that it will decide whether or not to sell the cards next week.

OK Mart has decided not to sell the cards for now, but it might change its decision depending on the demand in the market.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-08-28
By: CNA

The NBA’s Washington Wizards shooting guard Bradley Beal served as the one-day manager

at a branch of the sub-sandwich chain Subway in Taipei on Thursday as part of his five-day visit to Taiwan.

Beal shared his favorite sub and even made one during the event.

He was invited to attend the 2015 NBA Youth Madness final games on Aug. 28-30 in Taipei. In addition to the competitions, he will also coach Taiwan’s young players in a basketball camp.

Beal, 6’5″ , was the third pick in the first round of 2012 NBA Draft. The 22-year-old guard played 63 games with Wizards last season, averaging 15.3 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 3.1 assists per game.

Taipei Times
Date:  Aug 29, 2015
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

The fire that turned a June 27 concert at the Formosa Fun Coast (八仙海岸) water park into

the nation’s deadliest amusement park disaster was caused by colored cornstarch being ignited by stage lights, an official report said this week.

The cornstarch that had been sprayed over hundreds of partygoers at a Color Play Asia event exploded when it came into contact with the lights, whose surface temperatures reached more than 400°C, the report by the New Taipei City Fire Department said.

In the report, a special investigation taskforce said a careful assessment of the evidence and repeated experiments had shown that the heat given off by 200-watt incandescent bulbs in a row of portable “Beam 200” moving-head stage lights ignited the cornstarch, sparking the deadly blaze.

The lights had been placed on the right-hand side of the stage near the front.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/27
By: Chou YUng-chih, Wei Yun-ling and Bear Lee

Jakarta, Aug. 27 (CNA) Taiwan will raise monthly wage for the 220,000 migrant domestic helpers to NT$17,000 (US$520) from September 1, an Indonesian labor official said Thursday.

The amount will be an increase of NT$1,160, or 7 percent from the current NT$15,840, Agusdin Subiantoro, chief the National Board for Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers, told CNA.

Taiwan has frozen the pay for migrant domestic helpers for 18 years, as the domestic helpers are not entitled to the Labor Standards Law, which set the minimum monthly wage at NT$20,008.

Agusdin said after rounds of negotiations, Taiwanese and Indonesian officials reached the agreement to increase migrant domestic workers’ pay earlier in the day.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date:  Aug 28, 2015
By: Kuo Yi  /  Staff reporter

The Japanese agent and personal representative of Yui Hatano, a Japanese adult video

actress, yesterday bowed at a Taipei news conference to apologize for providing a previously published photograph for Taipei EasyCard Corp (悠遊卡公司) to use in a series of special-edition cards.

The company had invited Hatano to Taiwan for a photography session to produce images for two versions of her card, one “angel” and one “demon.”

Although the cards were not scheduled to be launched until Tuesday next week, there had already been a lot of discussion on the Internet, not only about the choice of Hatano, but that one image had been used on the cover of one of her adult videos.

EasyCard chairman Tai Chi-chuan (戴季全) said that a temporary hold had been placed on sales of the “angel” card, adding that there would be restrictions on where the card could be purchased so that buyer’s age requirements could be enforced.     [FULL  STORY]

ejinsight
Date: Aug 27, 2015

Six men have pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud for swindling three Taiwan women out

of HK$2.56 million (US$330,278) in a telephone scam.

The defendants are a Taiwan-born man, surnamed Chang, 53, and five mainlanders aged 23 to 25.

They were remanded to custody, pending sentencing on Sept. 9.

The suspects posed as Taiwanese police officers, nurses and prosecutors in order to trick their victims into sending money to Hong Kong where they engaged in money laundering, according to court documents cited by Apple Daily.

The crimes took place between 2013 and 2014 and involved 30 victims who lost a combined HK$189 million.

Only three agreed to come to Hong Kong to testify.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/27
By: Wang Shu-fen and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, Aug. 27 (CNA) A tourist bus carrying 18 people rolled over in southern Taiwan’s

Pingtung County Thursday, leaving a 58-year-old Chinese woman dead and 15 other injured, the Tourism Bureau said.

A total of 16 Chinese, a Taiwanese tour guide and a Taiwanese bus driver were on the bus when the accident took place at around 3 p.m., according to Chieh Li Travel Service Co. (捷利旅行社), which is hosting the tour group from the coastal province of Fujian in southeastern China.

Except for two Chinese tourists, all other people onboard were injured, both the bureau and the police confirmed.     [FULL  STORY]