Radio Taiwan International
Date: 10 September, 2019
By: Natalie Tso
Last month, Samsung announced in Taipei that they are ready for 5G (CNA photo)
NCC Acting Chairman Chen Yao-hsiang said this year is key for the development of 5G. Taiwan could be releasing 5G technology by the end of the year or early next year. The business model for 5G is currently under discussion and should be out by next July. [FULL STORY]
Autoevoluion
Date:10 Sep 2019
By: Mircea Panait
Founded in 1984 through an alliance with Yamaha, the company responsible for the San Yuan received $30 million for its Taoyuan facility in Taiwan about 11 years ago. And even though these people bought a stand at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show, the concept in question leaves much to be desired.
First things first, it’s an odd contraption that tries to combine the aesthetics of a coupe with the high ground clearance of a crossover. But as opposed to small utility vehicles such as the Toyota C-HR and Suzuki Jimny, the San Yuan doesn’t have a proper styling direction that would make a designer proud.
Look at the logo, affixed to an Audi-esque front grille complemented by vents next to the LED headlamps and a curious-looking lip spoiler. It’s three rings crossed by a chrome strip, featuring backlighting to bring the point home. The yellow trim makes the badge look like three lemon slices impaled by a cocktail stick, and that’s just the start of everything that’s wrong with the San Yuan.
Now glance at the silver-and-red wheels with too many spokes for anyone’s liking. The center cap – presented as a black star with gold accents – is the definition of chintzy. Most embarrassing for the Taipei-based company is the braking system, which is a non-functional fake whichever way you look at it. [FULL STORY]
Anonymous source quoted by NYT claims Taipei would retaliate after Chinese attack by striking Fujian Province
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/09/10
By: Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
New York Times office (Pixabay photo)
The original article, titled “This is How a War With China Could Begin,” was published by The New York Times (NYT) on Sept. 5 and authored by journalist Nicholas Kristof. In the article, a source is mentioned who claims that the MND has a counteroffensive contingency plan to attack China’s shores in response to a People's Liberation Army attack on the island.
The claim was included in the article following a statement from Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu in which Wu said that Taiwan’s military is planning "for defense and offense.” The structure of the paragraph might lead readers to believe that Wu’s use of the word “offense” indicates plans for a missile strike on Fujian.
The MND declared on Tuesday that the reported statement is false and that the ministry has no such provisional “offensive plans” to launch “air strikes on Fujian Province” as the NYT article suggested. The portion of the NYT article in question was as follows. [FULL STORY]
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/09/10
By: Joseph Yeh
HMCS Ottawa / Image taken from Wikipedia Commons; Public domain files
The MND did not provide any additional information on the transit through the waterway that separates Taiwan and China, except to say that Taiwan's military was fully aware of the situation and that it was done under Canada's freedom of navigation.
Asked to comment on the transit, the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei (CTOT) identified the vessel as HMCS Ottawa but did not say either when the transit was made.
According to local media reports, however, the vessel passed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday.
[FULL STORY]
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 11, 2019
By: Shen Pei-yao and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Flamingo chicks born last month at the Taipei Zoo are doing well and learning to swim, the zoo said on
A family of flamingos is pictured in an undated photo taken at the Taipei Zoo. A total of nine baby flamingos have been hatched at the zoo this year.
Photo courtesy of the Taipei Zoo
Those who would like see the chicks swimming should visit the zoo soon, as the chicks must learn to swim before the summer ends, it said.
Flamingos begin teaching their hatchlings to swim shortly after they leave the nest, with the adults guiding their young to shallow areas of water near the shore, it said.
The hatchlings learn very quickly and are able to keep up with the adults in a short amount of time, it added.
In the wild, flamingos tend to roost in salt water lagoons and salt fields, or inland in large salt water lakes, it said. [FULL STORY]
Radio Taiwan International
Date: 09 September, 2019
By: Leslie Liao
Airports around the country will begin looking for meat products on travelers arriving from the Philippines
Taiwan will begin prohibiting travelers from bringing in any meat products from flights originating in the Philippines. That was the word from the Central Emergency Operation Center for African Swine Fever. The center said Philippine authorities confirmed cases of African swine fever on Monday.
Beginning 4:00 pm Monday, travelers arriving from the Philippines will be subject to inspection. Those found with meat products will be fined NT $200,000 on the first offense, and NT $1,000,000 for subsequent offenses. Travelers who are unwilling or unable to pay the fine will be sent to the National Immigration Agency and denied entry into Taiwan. [FULL STORY]
Taipei is backing US entities to recover money from Beijing, since it took over the railways funded by the bonds
Asia Times
Date: September 9, 2019
By: KG CHAN
A copy of the Qing dynasty sovereign bond issued in 1911. Photo: Facebook
Offsprings and representatives of the original holders in the US of the “antique China debt” – issued by the Qing dynasty government (1644-1911) to fund China’s railway construction less than a year before the last monarchy was toppled in the 1911 Revolution led by Sun Yat-sen – insist that it is incumbent upon Beijing to pay back the money long overdue under the principle of the succession of states, Bloomberg reported at the end of August.
The total size of the defaulted bonds to be repaid in line with their conditions, factoring in inflation and interest, is estimated to hit the one trillion dollar mark, roughly the equivalent to Beijing’s US treasuries holdings.
The money was raised 108 years ago to fund the construction of the Hukuang Railway, as part of north-south and east-west arteries linking the central province of Hunan to the southern trading hub of Canton, now Guangzhou. [FULL STORY]
Pro-Han vendor pulls out knife after police try to shut down illegal booth at New Taipei rally
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/09/09
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Vendor (center). (Video still from Facebook group 公民割草行動)
As Han held a rally in New Taipei City in an attempt to rekindle sagging momentum in his campaign, many loyal Han fans came to attend, and some vendors set up food stands to serve them. However, when police asked one of the vendors to dismantle her stand as it did not follow regulations, she went into a fit and threatened them with a knife, reported Liberty Times.
A witness posted a video of the incident on the Facebook group Citizens Mowing Action (公民割草行動). In the video, a middle-aged woman wearing a ball cap with a Taiwanese flag on it is arguing with police after they told her that her stand needed to be taken down because it did not meet regulations.
She argued that she should first be given a written warning before being banned from the event. She suddenly pulled out a knife, held it up to her neck, and menaced police with it.
[FULL STORY]
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/09/09
By: Chen Wei-ting and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, Sept. 9 (CNA) Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Co. has announced that it will recall 500 boxes of its Acuvue disposable contact lenses from the Taiwan market due to possible quality problems, Taiwan's Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) said Monday.
The company has released a notice announcing that six batches of its daily disposable contact lenses from the Acuvue brand will be recalled, the FDA said in a statement.
The notice said the problematic products were found to have irregularities from the manufacturer's production line on the surface of the lenses and in the lens solution, so the company decided to initiate a recall of the products in Taiwan, according to the FDA.
The products are the daily disposable contact lenses with lot numbers 3957490106, 3957490109, 3957500101, 3957500102, 3957500109 and 3957510105. [FULL STORY]
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 10, 2019
By: Su Meng-chuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Taichung public schools are using 1,599 security cameras made by China’s Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co almost five months after government restrictions were imposed on the use of its products, Taichung City Councilor Huang Shou-ta (黃守達) of the Democratic Progressive Party said yesterday.
In April, the Executive Yuan ordered government facilities and institutions to stop using imported technology products that could compromise cybersecurity, including cameras made by Hikvision, a company with close links to the Chinese government, Huang said.
After city residents expressed concern over data safety, he asked Taichung City Government agencies to provide lists of Chinese-made security cameras still in use, he said.
The Taichung police said that no Chinese cameras are used at major road intersections, while the city’s transportation and construction bureaus said they have replaced all Chinese cameras with locally made ones, he said. [FULL STORY]
