Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/10
By: Lance Yau and Angela Huang

Taipei, August 10 (CNA) Taipower technicians were attacked in two separate incidents

on Sunday in Chiayi County and Yunlin County, as individuals dissatisfied with the state of blackout repairs vented their frustrations against Taipower personnel.

Both areas saw severe electrical blackouts in the wake of Typhoon Soudelor, which battered Taiwan Saturday.

In Yunlin County in central Taiwan, two Taipower engineers were injured by a group of stick-wielding men, who also damaged their repair vehicles in the process.

The repairmen, surnamed Zhang and Chen, were carrying out electrical repairs near a school in the afternoon when a car with three men approached. According to Zhang and Chen’s accounts, they asked “Why are the blackouts taking so long to fix?” before indiscriminately attacking them.

After the attackers sped away, the two engineers continued the second leg of repairs only to be beaten again, this time by up to six young men.     [FULL  STORY]

Business Insider
Date: Aug. 10, 2015
By: Celena Chong

A typhoon with a bad attitude has crept up on Taiwan and China, leaving 120-mph sustained winds and fatal landslides in its wake.

The hard-hitting typhoon, which has barreled through both countries since July 29, has killed 28 people and left more missing, according to Weather.com.

More than 500 flights and nearly 200 train rides have been canceled as a result of the storm.

The dash cam footage of Typhoon Soudelor provides a horrifying encounter with a tornado that spun off from the tropical storm from the driver’s point of view. At first, it looks like a typical drive through a stormy area, but the events escalate as the car in front starts flying and a seriously injured woman sits, battered, on the side of the road. [FULL STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-08-10
By: CNA and Staff Reporter

Academia Historica, the top historical institute in Taiwan, will release a documentary on

Aug. 15 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Japanese surrender that brought the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II to a close.

The documentary covers Japan’s formal surrender to the allied forces on Sept. 2, 1945 and its surrender to the Republic of China at a separate ceremony in Nanjing on Sept. 9, Academia Historica said Sunday.

It also includes a ceremony in Taipei on Oct. 25 in which Japan handed control over Taiwan to the Republic of China government following the end of the war, commonly known in Chinese as the eight-year (1937-1945) War of Resistance against Japan. The handover is known by the ROC government as the Retrocession of Taiwan, after the island had been ceded to Japan by the Qing empire following the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95).

The film documents the background, planning, execution and significance of the three ceremonies and includes interviews with scholars, as well as people who witnessed the ceremonies, according to Academia Historica.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/10

Taipei, Aug. 10 (CNA) What the Communist Party of China (CPC) described as their efforts in “the theater behind enemy lines” did little to help China’s War of Resistance against Japan, according to a war historian based in Taipei.

If the so-called theater behind enemy lines had been the focus of the war, as the CPC claims, the Japanese army would have been too busy fighting the communist forces to deal with China’s national army on the “front lines,” said Teng Hsin-yun, who specializes in WWII history.

Teng made the comments to disprove of China’s claim that it was the communists who led China’s war efforts against Japanese invasion.

The dichotomy of two theaters is something invented by the CPC in an attempt to play up the role of the communist forces during the war from 1937 to 1945, he said.     [FULL  STORY]

CUT OFF FROM OUTSIDE:Thousands were evacuated from Wulai District, where landslides have destroyed famous hotels and turned hot springs into mud pools

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 11, 2015
By: Shelley Shan  /  Staff reporter

Rescuers continued the search for residents of New Taipei City’s Wulai (烏來), Sindian

(新店) and Sansia (三峽) districts who went missing after the nation was pummeled by Typhoon Soudelor on Friday and Saturday.

Known for its hot springs, Wulai suffered the most damage by the typhoon, with landslides cutting off the district’s only road access to the rest of the nation.

The emergency operation center in New Taipei City said that it had confirmed that 3,100 residents in Wulai were safe.

About 2,000 Wulai residents were evacuated after the town was severely damaged by the typhoon.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-08-09
By: CNA

The gusts generated by Typhoon Soudelor in Taipei were the second strongest in

recorded history in Taiwan’s capital, the country’s Central Weather Bureau said Saturday.

The Taipei weather station registered level 13 winds on the Beaufort Scale, representing wind speeds of 133 to 149 kilometers per hour, at 5:25 am, the bureau said.

That was second only to level 14 winds (representing wind speeds of 150 kph to 166 kph) recorded at the Taipei station in 1996, when Typhoon Herb pounded Taiwan, it said.

Typhoon Soudelor brought gusty winds and dumped torrential rains on Taiwan as it swept through the island, causing widespread damage.     [FULL  STORY]