Taiwan News
Date: 2018/07/09
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
(photo courtesy of the DED)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Taipei’s Department of Economic Development (DED) and the National Association for the Promotion of Community Universities are teaming up with the community colleges of Wanha, Xinyi, and Songshan districts to organize three community garden guide tours in July, according to a DED news release last week. [FULL STORY]
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/09
By: Chiu Chun-chin and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, July 9 (CNA) Six key members of a group advocating Taiwan’s self-
CNA file photo
determination called the Taiwan Civil Government have been indicted for fraud and illegal fundraising in the name of the organization, the Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office said Monday.
Prosecutors indicted the six suspects Monday for alleged involvement in fraud and violating the Organized Crime Prevention Act and Money Laundering Control Act.
They said the group’s founder and secretary-general Roger Lin (林志昇), 67, his wife Julian T.A. Lin (林梓安), 51 and four others in the group defrauded 315 people of about NT$770 million (US$25.8 million) through the organization by various means including asking for political donations.
Prosecutors said Lin also engaged in questionable business schemes.
[FULL STORY]
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 10, 2018
By: Staff Writer, with CNA, HANGZHOU, China
China’s Zhejiang Province has unveiled 76 measures to attract young people and professionals from Taiwan, the highest number of incentives ever offered by a local government in China.
Province officials announced the measures on Sunday as the first cross-Taiwan Strait youth development forum was being held in Hangzhou.
More than 500 young people, including 200 led by former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) in her role as China Qingyan Peace Education Foundation chairperson, took part in the six-day event.
Hung said she hopes the event would serve as a platform for young Taiwanese searching for more opportunities and as a channel to enhance communication between young people in Taiwan and China.
[FULL STORY]
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/09
By: Wang Yang-yu and Evelyn Kao
Taipei, July 9 (CNA) The Taipei District Prosecutors Office has summoned
Image taken from Pixabay
19 people, including the owner of a customs brokerage, for questioning as part of an investigation into their alleged involvement in selling a fuel used to make gunpowder to North Korea.
Led by Taipei prosecutors, law enforcement authorities performed a search Monday of customs brokerages and shipping companies after receiving a tip-off that a customs brokerage owner surnamed Chen starting using several Chinese ships last year to smuggle products to North Korea.
According to the tip, the Chinese ships were used as a cover to smuggle a special sugar that can be processed into gunpowder along with grains from Southeast Asia to North Korea through Japan and South Korea under the guise of exporting the products to the two countries. [FULL STORY]
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 10, 2018
By Rachel Lin / Staff reporter
China is recruiting Taiwanese students to attend educational camps as part of its attempts to promote unification, a source said.
Some of the camps require applicants to submit a written statement of their opinion on Beijing’s 31 incentives aimed at Taiwanese, the source added.
A Taiwanese professor said he has received an e-mail from a student about a summer workshop.
The program, which is to be held next month, offers classes as well as a tour to the Wuyi Mountains in China’s Fujian Province, he said. [FULL STORY]
NZ Herald
Date: 9 Jul, 2018
By: Lucy Casley
The Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan.
Lucy Casley checks into The Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan.
Getting there:
The hotel is located in central Taipei — a short bus or train ride from Taipei Airport.
Check-in experience: My mouth dropped to the floor when we arrived at this hotel because of its classic Chinese architecture and decor. Everything is royal red, from the carpet, to the railings to some of the walls. Beautiful mosaics cover the ceilings and statues are dotted around the hotel. There is a wall of fame featuring photographs of presidents and royalty visiting the hotel from the 1950s onwards. We were welcomed very warmly and professionally by the manager and other staff and were able to check in immediately.
Room: I stayed in a Deluxe room, which had a beautiful balcony overlooking the city. It had two single beds, a desk that looked like it was set up for some serious business, a mini fridge, a kettle, fruit and two water bottles. The fruit was not free, nor was the water in the fridge, but the room-temperature water was complimentary. Having not checked the policy list, I went for the refrigerated water after a day in the heat.
Bathroom: The electronic toilet had a controller where you could adjust the heating of the toilet seat. There were a lot of other buttons but it was all in Mandarin, so I stuck to my usual toilet routine to be safe. There was also a bath and separate shower with good water pressure.
Toiletries: Very comprehensive including a dental kit, razor, bathrobe and slippers.
Facilities: Remarkable banquet rooms for special events, shops on level two, a restaurant, gym, sauna, swimming pool, tennis courts and a business centre.
The bed: Single and very cosy with crisp, clean white linen.
Price: $640 per night. [FULL STORY]
Xinhua
Date: 2018-07-08
By: Ximhua Editor, Mu Xuequan
TOKYO, July 8 (Xinhua) — A passenger plane from China’s Taiwan made an emergency landing Sunday at an airport in central Japan.
The China Airlines plane from Taipei was scheduled to land at Toyama Airport around noon, but failed to do so due to unstable air currents, according to Japan’s Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry.
The pilot, after trying to land at Toyama Airport three times in vain, changed the direction and made an emergency landing at the Chubu Airport in Nagoya due to shortage of fuel, according to the ministry.
A total of 155 passengers and crew members were on board the plane, and none was injured. [SOURCE]
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/07/08
By: George Liao,Agencies
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Passenger ship companies in Taitung County, eastern Taiwan
(By Central News Agency)
have announced that the operation of all ships between Taitung and either of the offshore islands of Orchid Island and Green Island will be suspended on July 10 and 11 due to Typhoon Maria.
According to Central Weather Bureau’s updated weather forecast, Typhoon Maria is moving towards northern Taiwan, and if the path remains unchanged, a sea alert for the typhoon is likely to be issued as early as Monday night (July 9) and a land warning could be issued on Tuesday morning on (July 10).
Coast Guard Administration’s eastern branch security personnel at Fugang Fishing Harbor said on Sunday morning that they had received notices from the ship companies operating the route between Taitung and Green Island that they will begin to transport passengers in Green Island back to Taitung at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, but in the afternoon, all passenger ships will head to Green Island to shelter from the typhoon, according to media reports. [FULL STORY]
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/08
By: Tai Ya-chen and Elizabeth Hsu
London, July 7 (CNA) Taiwan is seeking to strengthen cooperation with the United
Photo courtesy of Science and Technology Division, Taipei Representative Office in the UK
Kingdom in the fields of technology, the humanities and social sciences, with a visit to London by Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Su Fong-chin (蘇芳慶) last week.
Su, heading a delegation of the Ministry of Science and Technology, visited the British Library July 5, where he held talks with chief library executive Roly Keating in an effort to seek to reinforce Taiwan’s international cooperation in the areas of humanities and social sciences, according to the Taipei Representative Office in the United Kingdom.
During the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on ways to support start-up businesses after Keating noted that the British Library established a commercial and intelligence property center in 2006 with the goal of helping the formation of start-ups.
As of 2014, the center had offered assistance to more than 400,000 people, Keating was cited as saying in a statement released by the office’s technology division Saturday.
[FULL STORY]
Taipei Times
Date: Jul 09, 2018
By: Chen Yu-fu / Staff reporter
The Transitional Justice Commission is to investigate military detention and discipline centers established during the Martial Law era, as part of a plan to conserve the negative heritage sites and establish historical truth, a commission member said yesterday.
The commission has received a list of 45 negative heritage sites compiled by the Ministry of Culture and some sites are military compounds that the National Human Rights Museum’s investigators could not reach, the member said on condition of anonymity.
After visiting the Ministry of National Defense and establishing a communication channel with ministry officials, the commission is to thoroughly probe such military sites, the member said.
It would first target the 45 sites to which access was denied by the ministry before the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice (促進轉型正義條例) was passed last year, the member said, adding that the commission knows that the total number of such sites is far greater than that. [FULL STORY]
