ICRT Radio News
Date: 2019-06-22
French music and traditional foods will be on offer at a festival in Taipei
today.
Association of French People in Taiwan Chairman Dominique Levy said "La Fete
de la Musique" originated from France, and is a day for all to share music in
the streets.
The Taipei version of the festival will take place in Maji Square near
Yuanshan MRT station today. [FULL STORY]
The cartoonist’s new exhibition pokes fun at the Chinese leader and Taiwan’s diplomatic upheavals
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/06/22
By: Teng Pei-ju, Taiwan News, Staff Reporter
Caricatures created by Taiwanese political cartoonist Stellina Chen (Source: Stellina Chen)
The painting sums up Stellina Chen’s new exhibition of political cartoons, which is called, “Xi is All Over.” Among the 23 showcased images created by the 27-year-old Taiwanese cartoonist, the majority are associated with turbulent cross-strait relations and the leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
In a nearby illustration, Danilo Medina, president of the Dominican Republic, is having a body checkup to find out the reason for his stomach problem. The doctor tells him he has consumed too much Chinese money, “You ate too much recently!” In another caricature, Xi Jinping is busy making art. The Chinese leader is trying to glue his nation’s five stars on the flag of Taiwan. These bitingly funny depictions of the diplomatic adversity show how Beijing poaches Taiwan’s allies, isolates the nation from the international community, and attempts to undermine its sovereignty.
China’s bullying and threats are the norm for the 23 million people living in Taiwan, regardless of their age, ethnicity, or socio-economic status. The government of Taiwan storms protests every now and again an ally switches recognition from Taiwan to China, or every spring when the World Health Assembly (WHA) is held in Geneva and the country is again excluded. While many Taiwanese learn to accept these political and diplomatic upheavals, Stellina fights back with her pen and pokes fun at the political turbulence. [FULL STORY]
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/22
By: Chang Hsiung-feng and Ko Lin
File photo for illustrative purpose only
Samples taken earlier in the week from the free-range poultry farm in Fangyuan Township were confirmed to be infected with the avian flu virus subtype, the bureau said in a statement.
[FULL STORY]
COMMON PROBLEM: The ministry said that landlords are reluctant to change their tenants’ household registration details, as they would incur added taxes
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 23, 2019
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
The Ministry of the Interior yesterday said that the rights of people eligible for a planned rent subsidy
The Ministry of the Interior logo is pictured at the ministry’s offices in Taipei on Feb. 26.
Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times
However, people who are unemployed need to be registered in the same city or county as the units they want to rent to qualify for the subsidies, it said.
Those who are employed and have presented documented proof would be eligible for the subsidies, even if their household registration information shows that they are from a different city or county, it said.
The Executive Yuan on Thursday approved a rent subsidy program targeting single people aged 20 to 40, couples who have been married for no more than two years and families with children younger than 20. [FULL STORY]
Radio Taiwan International
Date: 21 June, 2019
By: Shirley Lin
The Heavenly Cloud Valley Waterfall
The waterfall reaches a height of 250 meters. Most of the time, mountain hikers watch the waterfall from the bottom. However, a professional photographer recently managed to catch a breathtaking top-down view of the waterfall using a drone.
Not far from Heavenly Cloud Valley waterfall is Taiwan’s tallest waterfall, Jiaolong Waterfall. It reaches 846 meters. In the summer it becomes a popular sightseeing spot for nature lovers, making Taiwan’s wet season a little more bearable. [SOURCE]
"Over my dead body", said Kuomintang presidential aspirant Han Kuo-yu at a recent rally
Shanghaiist
Date: June 21, 2019
By: Kenneth Tan
It’s no secret what Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party thinks of ‘One Country, Two Systems’, China’s plan to reunify the nation.
President Tsai Ing-wen has experienced a miraculous rebound in her political fortunes, thanks in part to record turnouts in Hong Kong for the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square student protests and the ongoing anti-extradition movement.
Events in Hong Kong could not have come at a more opportune time for Tsai as she was facing an unprecedented party primary from her former premier William Lai that could have robbed her of her chance to serve a second term.
At a doorstop interview on Sunday, Tsai reiterated her stance that ‘One Country Two Systems’ was not acceptable to the people of Taiwan. [FULL STORY]
More than 670 EVA Air flights canceled as flight attendants go on strike in Taiwan
Taiwan News
Date: 2019/06/21
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
(By Central News Agency)
As of 11:40 p.m., June 21, information from EVA Air's website showed that about 679 flights will be canceled between June 22 and June 30.
For real-time EVA flight information, please go to https://www.evaair.com/en-global/emer/strikeinfo.html
[Last update: June 21 at 01:40 am]
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — After failing to reach an agreement with EVA Air management, the Taoyuan Flight Attendants Union (TFAU) at 2:10 p.m. announced its EVA Air flight attendant members would go on strike, starting at 4 p.m. this afternoon (June 20), leading to the cancellation of more than 100 flights on June 21, 22 and 23.
Detailed information about the cancellations can be found on the EVA Air website. Passengers can also call the EVA Air customer service hotline at 02-2501-1999 for more information.
[FULL STORY]
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/21
By: Stacy Hsu
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文, right) and Guatemalan Ambassador to Taiwan Olga Maria Aguja Zuniga/Image taken from the Presidential Office’s website.
Aguja is set to return home on June 24 for her new position as a consultant to Guatemala's foreign ministry after serving as her country's ambassador to Taiwan for nearly four years.
Aguja assumed the ambassadorship in August 2015, when Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of the Kuominting (KMT) was president.
"For more than three years, Taiwan and Guatemala have seen extremely close interactions. Not only did I pay a state visit to Guatemala, Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales also led a delegation to visit Taiwan," Tsai said when meeting with Aguja at the Presidential Office in Taipei.
[FULL STORY]
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 22, 2019
By: Thomson Reuters Foundation, BANGKOK
Once dubbed “garbage island” for its overflowing landfills and filthy streets, Taiwan now has Asia’s highest rate of recycling and is a role model for the region, analysts said on Thursday.
With untreated waste causing marine pollution and clogged drains triggering fatal floods from Bangkok to Manila, Southeast Asian cities should look to Taiwan’s success in reducing and recycling waste, they said.
“Taiwan didn’t do anything mystical; it just developed good policy based on the experiences of others,” Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research consultant Nate Maynard said. “If Southeast Asian countries adopted the same core principles, then they could develop their own models that work.”
Reducing waste is becoming a global priority amid growing calls for more aggressive action on climate change and plastic pollution, particularly in urban areas, which the UN has projected will house 60 percent of the global population by 2030. [FULL STORY]
The Globe And Mail
Date: June 20, 2019
By: Nathan Vanderklippe, Asia Correspondent
Canada has sailed a frigate through the Taiwan Strait in what officials in Taipei called a freedom of navigation operation, the first since the arrest of a Huawei executive set off a deepening dispute between Ottawa and Beijing.
The HMCS Regina, one Canada’s 12 frigates, sailed through the waters between Taiwan and China on Tuesday. It was accompanied by Naval Replenishment Unit Asterix.
The two ships sailed from Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, where they made their first-ever call on a naval base there.
“The most practical route between Cam Ranh Bay and Northeast Asia involves sailing through the Taiwan Strait,” Jessica Lamirande, spokesperson for Canada’s Department of National Defence, said in a statement. “Transit through the Taiwan Strait is not related to making any statement.”
[FULL STORY]
