Snake's February concert in France will feature Cut Killer and all the DJ's biggest hits

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/11/23
By: Lyla Liu, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — DJ Snake's 2020 concert in France will screen in Taiwan.

The February concert at La Defense Arena, Paris, will feature the DJ's mentor Cut Killer as a special guest, according to a Universal Music press statement. It added that Snake would be the first DJ to perform at the venue.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 11/23/2020
By: Chao Li-yen and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Nov. 23 (CNA) Seven suspects have been arrested in Taichung and Hualien in connection with the murders in the past three years of a man and a girl whose bodies were stuffed into concrete-filled plastic drums, police in Taichung reported Monday.

The cases came to light mainly because a friend of one of the members of the crime gang involved in the case tipped off the police, leading to the discovery of the drums and the arrests of seven suspects last week.

The main suspect surnamed Hsu (徐) was arrested in Hualien while the others were arrested in Taichung, but the police did not provide any further details on when the tip-off or the arrests occurred.

Six of the arrested suspects were handed over to the Taichung District Prosecutors Office, whose request to detain them was approved by the district court, according to Taichung police.
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Taipei Times
Date: Nov 24, 2020
By: Cheng Ming-hsiang and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Taipei Public Library system purchased a Chinese-made book that glorifies that country’s COVID-19 response measures, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taipei City Councilor Chen E-jun (陳怡君) told reporters yesterday.

The publisher, Changjiang Children’s Publishing Group, is a partner of the Chinese Communist Party’s Publicity Department — commonly known as the Chinese Propaganda Department, Chen said, adding that she would ask the library to remove the book from its catalogue.

Taipei Public Library Deputy Director Wang Shu-man (王淑滿) said that an order for nine copies had been placed, but they had not yet arrived, so she would temporarily cancel the order, and have a digital version of the book removed from the library’s online system.

Wang said she would call a meeting of the library’s collections committee to inspect the book before deciding whether it should be added to the library’s collection.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 20 November, 2020
By: Natalie Tso

Former top Pentagon official Derek Mitchell says that US President-elect Joe Biden will be strong in Asia and is committed to the safety and security of Taiwan. 

Mitchell served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs in the US Department of Defense under the Obama administration. He is currently the president of the National Democratic Institute. In an interview with Radio Taiwan International on Wednesday, Mitchell shared his views on Biden's future Asia policy. He said that while he does not represent the Biden administration, he knows many of those leading its Asia policy.

Mitchell said that “The safety and security of Taiwan will be communicated [by the Biden administration] very, very strongly and consistently with China.”  He also said he expected to see continued strong bipartisan support for Taiwan in the US Congress. That’s because “Taiwan is an obvious good…and has the support of those from the far left to the far right.”  He said,“The US commitment to Taiwan's security is as strong as ever.”    [FULL  STORY]

Mothership
Date: November 20, 2020
By: Julia Yeo

A man in Taiwan took to Facebook to rant about his ex-girlfriend, whom he broke up with after she threw away his beloved collection of anime figurines while he was away from home.

Man's girlfriend throws away his anime figurines

Posting in a Taiwanese Facebook group where users can anonymously rant about their girlfriends, the user shared that he is a big fan of Nezuko, a character from Demon Slayer, a popular anime in Japan.

However, the man's ex-girlfriend, whom he was cohabiting with, took the opportunity to get rid of all his Nezuko figurines while he was visiting his hometown for a couple of days.

According to him, he had spent "hundreds of thousands" of Taiwan dollars on his emporium of Nezuko dolls.    [FULL  STORY]

New measures only apply to children up to the age of 7

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/11/20
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Parents who stop their car on a yellow line will no longer have to drop their children off to school within three minutes, according to new traffic rules coming into force on Dec. 1.

However, the relaxation of the rule does not apply to waiting for the children to leave school, CNA reported Friday (Nov. 20). There is also a maximum age limit of seven years for the children involved.

The necessary changes were announced in June, but the Ministry of Transportation announced Friday that they would start to be implemented on Dec. 1. The new measure amounted to an expansion of the rule from only covering children with impaired movements to all children up to the age of seven, officials said.

Stopping on a red line to drop children off would still be banned, though if the practice did not pose a danger or a hindrance to other traffic, leniency might apply, according to the CNA report.
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Focus Taiwan
Date: 11/20/2020
By: William Yen and Chiang Yi-ching

Taipei, Nov. 20 (CNA) Taiwanese director Huang Hsin-yao's (黃信堯) comedy drama "Classmates Minus" won the non-competition Golden Horse Audience Choice Award at a ceremony in Taipei Friday night.

The ceremony was held at the Mandarin Oriental, Taipei a day ahead of the 57th Golden Horse Awards, which are widely considered the Oscars of Chinese language films.

The 122-minute color and black and white film is a drama set in Taiwan about four high school classmates who, through a series of events, ponder their life, aspirations and fate.

The film follows the four when they become a middle-aged director, white-collar worker, part-time office worker and paper offerings maker struggling through love, marriage and career, while also putting their friendship to the test, and examining society and human nature.   [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date:  Nov 21, 2020
By: Huang Hsin-po, Tsai Ching-hua and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer

The Central Election Commission yesterday said that a motion to recall Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Taoyuan City Councilor Wang Hao-yu (王浩宇) had been approved and the vote would be held on Jan. 16.

The motion was proposed by Hope Media executive officer Tang Ping-jung (唐平榮).

Eligible voters in the constituency represented by Wang number 315,143, of which 31,515 had to sign for the recall motion to proceed, the commission said.

The commission received 38,922 signatures, of which 5,506 were invalid, it said, adding that the number of valid signatures exceeded the threshold.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 19 November, 2020
By: John Van Trieste

Taiwan has donated US$500,000 to rebuilding the education system in northeastern Syria. This is the latest donation Taiwan has made to help those affected by the violence of the Islamic State.

The donation was made as part of a Taiwan-US agreement on helping create stability in Syria. Taiwan’s representative office in the US and the American Institute in Taiwan concluded the agreement on Wednesday.    [FULL  STORY]