Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-09-07
A new season of TV documentary series As Young as We Are tells the stories of 13 outstanding young men and women.
Champion boxer Chen Nien-chin, World Brewers Cup champion Chad Wang and movie make-up artist Chu Chia-Yi are among the 13 young men and women featured in the latest season of As Young as We Are. [FULL STORY]
We investigate increasing military and diplomatic pressures on Taiwan from the People’s Republic of China.
Al Jazeera
Date: 06 Sep 2018
Taiwan – a sovereign democracy, or a wayward breakaway province of the People’s Republic of China that must inevitably return to mainland control?
As the island comes under increasing military and diplomatic pressure from Beijing – against a background of fluctuating relations between China and the United States, Taiwan’s principal ally – the battle to influence Taiwanese hearts and minds on its future status is intensifying.
We’ve been to investigate the tactics of those to whom reunification is only a matter of time. [FULL STORY]
Hui-Wen Municipal High School in Taichung has been admitted as a partner school to Germany’s global language program for young students ‘PASCH’
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/09/07
By: Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Hui-Wen Municipal High School in Taichung (臺中市立惠文高中)
Image from 臺中市立惠文高中 Facebook Page
on Sept. 7 signed an agreement with the Goethe Institute in Taipei today, coordinated by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to become the world’s newest PASCH partner school.
The “PASCH” iniative, which stands for “Schools: Partners for the Future” in German is organized and endorsed by the government of Germany to promote high quality German language education.
Hui-Wen High School is the sixth high school in Taiwan to join the PASCH network with established German language programs, supported by the German Federal Foreign Office. It is also the first to be approved for membership in ten years reports LTN, even though many schools apply every year.
According to the PASCH introduction on the Deutscheland website, The PASCH network includes over 2,000 member schools in 120 countries. [FULL STORY]
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/09/07
By: Chang Ming-hsuan and Ko Lin
Taipei, Sept. 7 (CNA) Six different types of canned nutritional supplements produced by 
U.S. pharmaceutical firm Abbott Laboratories were ordered to be removed from store shelves in Taiwan due to concerns about health and safety, Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday.
The branded items affected were Ensure, Suplena, Nepro, Osmolite, Jevity and Osmolite HN, according to the FDA. They are all produced by the company.
Wei Jen-ting (魏任廷), an official with FDA’s Food Safety Division, said the administration made the decision after it received a total of 629 customer complaints in the first eight months of this year over these products.
An investigation later found that many of the complaints were related to rancidity and putrid tastes in the products, Wei said. [FULL STORY]
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 08, 2018
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
The nation’s agriculture sector should evolve toward sustainable development and adapt
President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Sixth National Agricultural Congress held by the Council of Agriculture in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times
to the effects of climate change, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday.
Tsai made the remark at the inauguration of the Sixth National Agricultural Congress in Taipei, where many attendants called for more action to prevent diseases, such as African swine fever.
The two-day congress, to discuss how to develop safe, sustainable and progressive agriculture, was organized by the Council of Agriculture and is taking place at the Taipei International Convention Center.
Over the past two years, the government has promoted many reforms in the agriculture sector, such as passing the Organic Agriculture Promotion Act (有機農業促進法), amending the Organic Regulations for Irrigation and Water Conservancy Associations (農田水利會組織通則) and completing an inventory of farmland use across the nation, Tsai said in her speech. [FULL STORY]
Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-09-06
The agriculture council will hold an event in October to promote the consumption of locally produced beef in Taiwan.
In the early days, many Taiwanese refused to eat beef because cows were important helpers to local farmers. But national figures show that the consumption of beef in the last ten years has gone up by 50%. Local production of beef, however, is still low in comparison as 94% of beef on the market is imported. [FULL STORY]
East Asia Forum
Date: 6 September 2018
By: Jean Yu-Chen Tseng, Fo-Guang University
It is obvious that the biggest challenge facing Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen after her 
first two years in office is the state of Taiwan’s economy. And the stakes are particularly high because Beijing is making the most of Taipei’s woes.
Soon after her inauguration, Tsai commenced a reform of the pension system to preserve the government’s fiscal health, with the new system coming into operation on 1 July 2018. The first wave of reforms concern the pensions of military personnel, civil servants and teachers. They are provoking considerable controversy and social upheaval. The next wave will involve Taiwan’s 10 million labourers.
Relations with China have fallen into disarray because of cross-Strait disputes over the 1992 Consensus. The drop in the number of tourists coming to Taiwan from China is having a direct impact on Taiwan’s tourism industry. There was a sudden rush of sales of hotels in southern Taiwan, and hospitality and tourism industry workers are losing what had looked like a stable source of income. [FULL STORY]
Payment will occur by app, QR code or EasyCard
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/09/06
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Taipei City Hall (photo by Allen Timothy Chang) (By Wikimedia Commons)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taipei City will give a discount of 20 percent for drivers who park their vehicle in 44 spaces across the capital using electronic means such as smartphone apps or EasyCards to pay, reports said Thursday.
The campaign is meant to promote paperless and cashless transactions, the Liberty Times reported.
Under the existing system, a parking attendant will make a round of the block and fix a paper with the details of the parking fee to the car’s windshield, with the driver supposed to pay the fee at a convenience store of bank.
Taipei City wants sensitive camera equipment to record when a car starts occupying a space, but during the test period, a student is likely to help the driver download the necessary app and explain the new procedure. [FULL STORY]
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/09/06
By: Wang Shu-fen and William Yen
Taipei, Sept. 6 (CNA) Taiwanese carriers announced Thursday that flights to Hokkaido
Photo courtesy of Kyodo News
will be canceled the following day as the airport remains closed following an earthquake that rocked the area triggering landslides and cutting power to millions.
China Airlines (CAL) and EVA Airways, canceled all flights to New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido Thursday and have announced there will be no flights Friday.
According to the CAL website, the airport is closed due to an electricity outage.
On Thursday, CAL flight CI0130 from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TTIA) to New Chitose Airport and return flight CI0131 were canceled, while CI0134 from Kaohsiung and return flight CI0135 were also canceled, according to CAL’s website.
[FULL STORY]
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 07, 2018
By: Shih Hsiao-kuang and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) leadership will not allow the winning design of the
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Den-yih, second left, visits an exhibition at National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times
party’s mascot competition to become its logo, KMT Chairman Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) said yesterday.
“I do not think [the design] looks good,” he told reporters after viewing an exhibition at the National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall commemorating the 50th anniversary of the implementation of the nine-year compulsory education program.
The winning design, which looks like a rubber chicken with a baby-faced blue squiggle on its chest and the KMT’s emblem on its rump, was created by 18-year-old Wu Ching-ping (吳婧萍) for a contest organized by the KMT Youth Department.
A white seal wearing the KMT emblem placed second, while a white lion with the KMT emblem as its head was third. [FULL STORY]
