The school has endeavored to go global through collaborations with overseas universities

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/05/11
By: Huang Tzu-ti, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan’s National Dong Hwa University has for the first time

made it into the list of the Times Higher Education Emerging Economies University Rankings, taking the 184th place of the 2018 Rankings released on May 9.

Located in Hualien County, Dong Hwa University also ranked 17th among the 31 Taiwan universities recognized by the prestigious global index this year on the performances of tertiary education institutions.

According to a press release by Dong Hwa University, the school received accolades for its ability to meet industry needs and the extent to which it has gone international.

Effort invested on globalization over the years has helped increase the university’s number of foreign students to 900 in 2018, or 9 percent of the total students. Dong Hwa has also established sister ties with 245 overseas universities, with the number expected to exceed 300 in two years.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/11
By: Wu Jui-chi and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, May 11 (CNA) Three key officials of the Taiwan Civil Government (TCG), a group that advocates for Taiwan’s self-determination, has been accused of running a Ponzi scheme and were detained on Friday by the Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office after they were deemed a flight risk in an ongoing investigation into the organization.

The controversial group, which believes that Taiwan has been under military occupation since the end of World War II, has been recruiting members by claiming that it alone is authorized by the United States military government to issue personal identification cards, licenses and other passes.

It claims the U.S. military government actually controls the country, and had simply put former Taiwanese President Chiang Kai-shek in charge as its agent. The group argues that the late Chiang illegally stripped all Taiwanese of Japanese citizenship in 1946 and its stated ultimate goal is that Taiwanese people should return to Japanese citizenship, with allegiance to their former colonizer Japan.

Under this premise, the TCG has been able to recruit around 36,000 members and collect at least NT$300 million (US$10 million) in what prosecutors say amounts to a Ponzi scheme, a fraudulent operation in which new members are recruited to pay fees that generate returns for the founders or older members.    [FULL  STORY]

Business Insider
May 10, 2018
By: Liu Zhen

 

• China’s home-grown Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter has carried out sea training for the first time, but the PLA didn’t specify where or when.
• The drill was conducted over the sea in “actual war conditions” to “further upgrade the air force’s combat capabilities,” Senior Colonel Shen Jinke said on the air force’s official microblog.
• Beijing-based military analyst Zhou Chenming said the sea training indicated that the fighter jet would be sent to Taiwan and the contested South China Sea in the future.

China’s home-grown Chengdu J-20 stealth fighter has carried out sea training for the first time as the air force seeks to boost its combat readiness amid rising tensions with Taiwan and a regional arms race.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News  
Date: 2018/05/10
By:  Agencies

Taipei City-based National Palace Museum is among the local institutions offering free

admission May 18 in celebration of International Museum Day. (C
More than 40 institutions across Taiwan will offer free entry and host special events May 18 to mark International Museum Day.

Many of the country’s leading artistic, historical and scientific facilities will provide complementary admission, including National Palace Museum and National Taiwan Museum in Taipei City; National Museum of Natural Science in central Taiwan’s Taichung City; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in the southern Taiwan metropolis; and National Museum of Prehistory in southeastern Taiwan’s Taitung County.
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Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/10
By: Tai Ya-chen, Sabine Cheng and Kuan-lin Liu

London, May 9 (CNA) Lin Hwai-min (林懷民), founder and artistic director of Cloud Gate

Dance Theatre, was named an honorary fellow of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London on Wednesday.

Lin, who was in London with the theatre group for its performance of “Formosa” at Sadler’s Wells Theatre earlier in the day, received the award from Mirella Bartrip, the conservatoire’s director of dance.

In naming Lin as an honorary member of the conservatoire, Bartrip said he was one of the top choreographers in Asia.

In response, Lin said the recognition by one of the world’s leading dance and music schools was great encouragement for him.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: May 11, 2018
By: Ann Maxon  /  Staff reporter

Veterans’ group 800 Heroes vice commander-in-chief Wu Sz-huai (吳斯懷) and two other

veterans yesterday reported to the Taipei Police Department’s Zhongzheng First Precinct for questioning, as police investigated whether they had incited protesters to resort to violence or engage in other illegal activities during a rally against planned pension reforms for military personnel last month.

At a demonstration outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on April 25, 32 police officers and 11 journalists were injured as protesters tried to break into the legislature.

Many journalists said they were attacked or had their cameras vandalized by protesters who demanded that they stop filming or photographing.

Before reporting to the police, Wu told reporters that as “law-obeying veterans,” they would follow all legal procedures and that they hoped the evidence would attest to their innocence.    [FULL  STORY]

BBC News
Date: 9 May 2018

An Australian city council has been criticised after it covered up Taiwanese flags painted

by school students on a public artwork.

The flags were painted on a bull statue displayed for a beef industry event in Queensland.

Rockhampton Regional Council said it altered the work to reflect the Australian government’s policy of not recognising Taiwan as a country.

China claims sovereignty over Taiwan, which it sees as a breakaway province.

The fibreglass statue was one of six school artworks commissioned by the council and Beef Australia for a week-long festival in Rockhampton, 600km (370 miles) north of Brisbane.

North Rockhampton State School said students had created the design, which featured various national flags in the shape of fish, to celebrate the cultural diversity of their community.    [FULL  STORY]