Streamer CJayride in is in hot water again for steamy Jacuzzi video that included 3 men and 2 women

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/01/10
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — An American streamer who Taiwanese grew to love to hate

for his antics while streaming from his skateboard last year around Taipei, is in hot water again after he made a live-streamed video of him with two men and two women having a steamy bubble bath together on Sunday (Jan. 7), reported Now News.

On Sunday, word started to spread on the Taiwanese online forum PTT that Chris James Robb, a 30-year-old American streamer who goes by the online handle “CJayride,” was broadcasting a group bubble bath in a love motel somewhere in Taiwan live on the streaming site Twitch. In the video, titled “‘Hot Spring’ Love Motel 700 Subs Celebration,” two men and three women cavort together in a Jacuzzi while wearing swimsuits.

While the participants drink alcohol and chat in Chinese in the video, it becomes apparent that one of the two women wearing bikinis is from Taiwan, while the other is from Hong Kong.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan is a global node of internet traffic, but also a major target for PRC hackers.

The News Lens
Date: 2018/01/09
By: Adam Hatch

Weaknesses include a lack of implemented policies, underdeveloped training programs and an absence of international cooperation.

Dr. Joseph Hwang of Taiwan’s National Defense University told the Center for Strategic

and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. last week that cybersecurity is a particularly sensitive threat for Taiwan, with threats ranging from criminal activity to cyber warfare and espionage.

Taiwan has been a prime target of hackers, thus giving the R.O.C. a tremendous amount of experience and sophistication in the realm of cybersecurity. Hwang said that Taiwan’s National Security Bureau (NSB) faces roughly 100,000 hacking attempts every month.

Fortunately, Taiwan’s cybersecurity environment is relatively well-structured and continues to develop. Taiwan’s geographical location makes it a prime node in global networks, both as a conduit for web traffic between Northeast and Southeast Asia, as well as between China and North America. To manage and protect Taiwan’s interests, Taipei has followed the lead of nations like the U.S. and China in forming a centralized cyber command: the National Information and Communication Security Taskforce (NICST).    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News  
Date: 2018/01/09
By:  Central News Agency

Taipei, Jan. 9 (CNA) A migrant worker from the Philippines has been confirmed as

having Taiwan’s first imported case of the mosquito-borne contagious disease chikungunya this year, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Tuesday.

The 29-year-old Filipino was detected as having a fever upon his arrival at Kaohsiung International Airport on Jan. 2. Two days later, he was confirmed to have been infected with the chikungunya virus after a blood test, a CDC statement said.

According to the CDC’s epidemiological investigation, the Filipino flew alone to Taiwan for contract work in Tainan, which neighbors Kaohsiung. It was his first time in the country, the CDC said.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/01/09
By: Chiu Chun-chin and Ko Lin

Taipei, Jan. 9 (CNA) Huang Jung-ching (黃榮清), chief of the Aviation Police Bureau

under the National Police Agency, died in a Taipei hospital Tuesday.

Huang, who was appointed head of the aviation bureau in July 2017, had apparently been diagnosed with cancer late last year, according to a the Aviation Police Bureau.

The aviation authority issued a statement late Tuesday saying that the bureau had been aware of Huang’s death since that morning, but wanted to wait for an appropriate time to make an announcement, out of respect for his family.

A graduate of the Department of Public Safety at Central Police University, Huang had held numerous law enforcement positions in a number of divisions before his promotion to aviation police chief last year.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Jan 10, 2018
By: Sean Lin  /  Staff reporter

Despite intensive negotiations on Monday and yesterday morning, legislators failed to

reach a consensus on several key articles before sending draft amendments to the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法) to a plenary session for review.

After the New Power Party (NPP) caucus withdrew from cross-caucus talks on Monday evening to protest the proposed amendments, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the People First Party (PFP) caucuses proceeded with the negotiations.

Despite lending support to the Executive Yuan’s proposal to calculate overtime fees by the actual number of hours worked — as opposed to the rule stipulating a minimum of four times an employee’s hourly wage — the caucuses sparred on how compensatory leave should be calculated if an employee chooses to convert overtime pay into compensatory leave.

According to the amendments passed in December 2016, employees should be paid 1.33 times their hourly rate during the first two hours of overtime and 1.66 times their hourly rate from the third hour onward.    [FULL  STORY]

The Boston Globe
Date: January 07, 2018
By Jeff Jacoby GLOBE COLUMNIST  

THERE IS A moment in “1776,” the acclaimed musical about the American founding, in

which Benjamin Franklin explains to the Continental Congress why he no longer thinks of himself as an Englishman. He is aggrieved that the colonists are denied the full rights of English citizens, but that isn’t the whole of it.

“We’ve spawned a new race here — rougher, simpler, more violent, more enterprising, less refined,” Franklin says. “We’re a new nationality. We require a new nation.”

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I thought of that scene as I was having dinner recently with three students in Taipei. Celia Chung, Tony Chang, and Polly Cheng attend National Chengchi University, one of Taiwan’s leading institutions of higher education. I met them during a visit to Taiwan sponsored by the Association of Foreign Relations, a Taiwan-based NGO that promotes international awareness of the island’s affairs. After several days of hearing from middle-aged diplomats and civil servants, I had sought out a chance to talk with young people unconstrained by party line or official platitudes. I especially wanted to know what it meant to them to be Taiwanese.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-01-08

President Tsai Ing-wen says Taiwan cherishes its close and friendly ties with Paraguay.

She was speaking on Monday while meeting with a visiting Paraguayan delegation at the Presidential Office.

The delegation was led by Paraguayan Senator Fernando Lugo, who served as president from 2008 to 2012. This is his fourth visit to Taiwan.

Tsai said that over the past year, the two countries have continued to work together in a number of areas, including an economic cooperation agreement which is set to take effect next month. A Taiwan-Paraguay industrial and technological university will soon be established and Taiwan has decided to offer more scholarships to Paraguayan students this year, raising the number from 28 to 40.

Tsai said Taiwan has already increased its quota on beef imports from Paraguay to 10,000 tons and that figure is set to increase further this yea    [SOURCE]