Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/05
By: Kuo Hsuan-wen and Emerson Lim

Taipei, June 5 (CNA) At least 30 vehicles were stranded along a freeway in Hsinchu

County on Monday due to punctured tires caused by numerous pairs of scissors that fell from a delivery truck, the National Highway Police Bureau (NHPB) said Wednesday.

Around 6:48 p.m. Monday, the NHPB received several reports of accidents on the southbound lane of the Jiadong section of National Freeway No.3, police officers told reporters.

When the police arrived on the scene, they realized that the 30 stranded vehicles had flat-tires and that several pairs of broken scissors were scattered across the freeway.

Footage from traffic cameras later showed that the scissors had fallen from a delivery truck, police said.    [FULL  STORY]

ALTERNATIVE SOURCES: The Joint Research Center for Green Energy Technologies is to help the nation secure a place in the global green energy industry

Taipei Times 
Date: Jun 06, 2019
By: Lin Chia-nan 

By Lin Chia-nan

Minister of Science and Technology Chen Liang-gee (陳良基) yesterday attended a beam-

raising ceremony for the main building of the Joint Research Center for Green Energy Technologies in Tainan, saying that he expects the center to become a hub for research on green energy generation, preservation and storage.

The center is near the Tainan High Speed Rail Station and is part of the wider Shalun Smart Green Energy Science City, which also encompasses Academia Sinica’s planned second campus, the Taiwan CAR (connected, autonomous, road-test) Lab and other industrial or exhibition spaces.

The Taiwan CAR Lab, which is focused on developing self-driving technology, was inaugurated in February.

Construction crews broke ground for the joint research center in April last year and it is expected to be completed by February next year.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan Internatinal 
Date: 03 June, 2019
By: Natalie Tso

The president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, William Foreman, said that western companies see Taiwan as a safe haven for intellectual property. He said this is one of Taiwan’s strengths and opportunities. Foreman made the remarks in an RTI interview after AmCham released its annual White Paper.

[FULL  STORY]

Yang emphasized that Taiwan should not embrace the wrong people

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/06/03
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Fount Media, an online media outlet, carried an article written by senior journalist Yang Hsien-hung (楊憲宏) criticizing a pro-China organization in the U.S. that has defended China’s hideous behavior.

The article points out that while U.S. Congress members were motioning to take up H.R.649, or Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019, the organization accepted China’s defence and opined that China adopted oppressive measures to control the area because over the years more than 1,200 explosions had happened in the area where the Uyghur live.

The bill was introduced to condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, and calls for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and harassment of these communities inside and outside China.

The bill would require the U.S. government to come up with remedy measures, even allowing actions affecting U.S.-China trade as steps to counteract China’s oppression in the region    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/03
By: Ku Chuan and Evelyn Kao 

Taipei, June 3 (CNA) President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said Monday that since China’s Tiananmen Square massacre and Taiwan’s Formosa Incident, Taiwan has been firmly treading the path of democracy and freedom, and she hoped China would also choose the same path.

Tsai made the remarks during a meeting with a delegation of overseas democracy activists who are visiting Taiwan to gain an understanding of the country’s democracy and human rights development.

Tuesday will be the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, commonly known as the June Fourth Incident, while this year marks the 40th anniversary of the Formosa Incident, Tsai noted, saying that the two incidents are of crucial historic significance.

After the two incidents, the direction and pace of development in Taiwan and China diverged, with the former firmly taking the path of democracy and freedom.
[FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 04, 2019
By: Tang Shih-ming and Jonathan Chin  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

Images of a speeding ticket for a fighter jet that took off from an emergency runway on a

freeway during the Han Kuan military exercises last week were doctored, the National Highway Police Bureau said on Sunday.

Two versions of the traffic citation — supposedly issued by the highway police — showed stills from traffic cameras on the Sun Yat-sen Freeway (Freeway No. 1).

One purportedly showed a traffic camera image of an Indigenous Defense Fighter on the Changhua Reserve Runway exceeding the 110kph speed limit by 240kph.

The other showed four grainy images of a military aircraft taking off from a freeway and said the cameras were located between the 230km and 650km markers on the Puyan Interchange (埔鹽).    [FULL  STORY]

Several Kaohsiung City council members in have reported receiving anonymous death threats in the mail

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/06/01
By:  Central News Agency

TAIPEI (CNA) — Several council members in Kaohsiung have reported receiving anonymous death threats in the mail, with City Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Councilor Chiu Chun-hsien (邱俊憲) saying Saturday that local police are investigating the matter.

Chiu, who was attending an event to promote Kaohsiung’s agricultural produce, showed reporters a cellphone photo he took of a letter he received the day before, noting that the words “Taiwan, China” were written next to his address on the envelope.

Clearly, the message was intended to denigrate Taiwan’s sovereignty, he said.

The letter warned Chiu to watch his step or risk the lives of his family and signed off with the exclamation “Hahaha.”    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/02
By: William Yen 

Taipei, June 2 (CNA) Over 200 animal lovers and animal rights activists in Taipei joined thousands around the world on Sunday to commemorate an annual international event that raises awareness of animal rights.

National Animal Rights Day (NARD), established by the United States-registered non-profit animal rights and planet conservation organization “Our Planet. Theirs Too,” in 2011, is observed annually in countries around the world on the first Sunday in June.

The purpose of NARD is to highlight the importance of animal rights, until all animals are free from enslavement and their rights are established and have legal protection, the “Our Planet. Theirs Too” website said.

“Kindness to Animals,” the organizer of this year’s NARD in Taipei, said the event focused on a number of animal rights, including adoption of pets instead of buying, boycotting live animal performances, banning the capture of animals to perform, gradually reducing and eliminating animal testing, banning the fur trade, and promoting a vegan lifestyle.    [FULL  STORY]

DETENTIONS: In Taichung, police questioned people about their work and visa status after a raid on the ASEAN Square shopping mall in Central District

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 03, 2019
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

The number of migrant workers in Taiwan reached 706,060 in April, with more than 90

percent of them from Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines, Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) data showed on Saturday.

More than 271,000, or 38.4 percent of migrant workers, were from Indonesia followed by Vietnamese (221,000, 31.4 percent) and Filipinos (154,000, 21.8 percent), the data showed.

Total migrant workers exceeded 700,000 for the first time in October last year, when there were 703,162.

The data showed that 259,144, or 36.7 percent, worked in domestic care and services, while 446,916, or 63.3 percent, worked in manufacturing, construction, agriculture and other roles.   [FULL  STORY]