Committing suicide could be expensive for the family of the death seeker and this is the case of a man who jumped to his death in central Taiwan’s Nantou County in 2016.

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/10/24
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Committing suicide could be expensive for the family of the

death seeker and this is the case of a man who jumped to his death in central Taiwan’s Nantou County in 2016.

According to the written judgment of Taiwan High Court’s Taichung Branch Court, in April, 2016, a man surnamed Lin went up to the roof of the seven-floor building where he lived ,crossed a short wall to the roof of a next building, jumped off the building, and crushed a female vendor surnamed Chen selling vegetables on the roadside, killing both himself and the woman. On Tuesday Taiwan’s Supreme Court affirmed the high court’s verdict that Lin’s family should pay NT$5.2 million (about US$173,000) damages to Chen’s family.

Chen’s husband and five children collectively filed a civil lawsuit against Lin’s wife and her three children, seeking an award of damages. Chen’s widower told the court that he was married to his wife for 50 years and took her to the same location to sell vegetables every day. The loss of his wife also meant the loss of the mother for his five children, who were very saddened by their mother’s sudden departure, Chen’s widower said, adding that they were seeking NT$6.5 million in damages, the court judgment said.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/24
By: Christie Chen

Taipei, Oct. 24 (CNA) A group of protesters demonstrated in front of the Executive

Yuan Tuesday, urging the government to protect the right of migrant workers to change employers and to revise regulations that they say punish migrant workers for their employers’ faults.

Tien Kei-fung (田奇峯), a member of the Serve the People Association, which organized the protest, said his association has handled cases over the years in which migrant workers have been unable to extend their stay in Taiwan to look for work due to false information provided by their former employers.

Some employers, when they want to suspend a contract with a migrant worker for no good reason, will falsely write “business contraction” as a reason on the official form that needs to be filled out so that migrant workers can change employers, he said.
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Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-10-23

President Tsai Ing-wen has extended an invitation to the president of the Dominican

Republic to visit Taiwan. The invitation came during Tsai’s meeting with the Caribbean nation’s defense minister, Ruben D. Paulio Sem, in Taipei on Monday.

Tsai said that when Vice President Chen Chien-jen attended Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina’s inauguration last year, he was warmly received there. She said the close ties between the two countries is also evidenced by Defense Minister Feng Shih-kuan’s trip last August and an upcoming trip to the Dominican Republic by a senior Taiwanese military officer in November.

“The interactions are a sign of the deep friendship between the two countries. It is my belief that the bilateral military ties will see pragmatic and positive developments. I would like to ask Defense Minister Ruben D. Paulio Sem to convey my best wishes and extend my invitation [to the president]. We sincerely welcome President Danilo Medina to visit Taiwan to further strengthen exchanges between the two sides,” said Tsai.
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The troupe had their performances translated into French, German, and so on, so that the audience could understand and appreciate the shows.

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/10/23
By: Teng Pei-ju, Taiwan News, Staff Reporter

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – After SamadhiTang Creative Puppet Troupe gained initial

attention through their debit exhibition in Chiayi’s Koji Pottery Museum in 2011, they began receiving invitations from the Tourism Bureau to hold exhibitions and performances overseas as a way to promote Taiwanese culture.

However, they realized in order to successfully promote Taiwanese glove puppetry, languages are of utmost importance.

That is why the troupe started to collaborate with the faculty and students of Wenzhou Ursuline University (WUU).

Professors at the Department of Foreign Languages helped translate stories and the names of characters into such languages as English, French, and German, while students joined forces with the troupe on tour as voice-overs.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/23
By: Yeh Tzu-kang and Elizabeth Hsu 

Taipei, Oct. 23 (CNA) With some 18,000 foreign workers employed in the industrial and
social welfare sectors in Yunlin County, the local government said Monday that it has set up a service center consultancy to enhance communication between the workers and their employers.

Yunlin County Labor Affairs Department Director-General Chang Shih-chung (張世忠) said that assisting in communication and coordination between employers and their foreign employees is one of his department’s key missions.

The department is tasked with helping contract workers from foreign countries to adapt to the life, culture, folk customs and laws in Taiwan, Chang said.    [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: October 23, 20174
By: Yeh Su-ping and Frances Huan

TAIPEI (CNA) – President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) on Sunday sent a congratulatory

message to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the landslide victory of his Liberal Democratic party (LDP) in the parliamentary elections in the day.

In the message released by the Presidential Office, Tsai said that

she hoped Taiwan and Japan would forge closer ties in the wake of the LDP’s victory.

The president’s congratulatory message was conveyed via Chiou I-jen (邱義仁), head of the Taiwan-Japan Relations Association (TJRA), a semi-official Taiwanese agency in Taipei that handles relations with Japan.

The LDP won a strong mandate in the snap general election Sunday, taking two-thirds of the seats in the parliament, which is expected to strengthen Abe’s hard line position against North Korea and create room to push for revision of the country’s pacifist Constitution.    [FULL  STORY]

ARDENT SUPPORTER:A Kaohsiung foreigner decided to show his support for Taiwanese independence by getting the Chinese characters for ‘Taiwan’ tattooed on his forehead

Taipei Times
Date: Oct 23, 2017
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

A Briton living in Kaohsiung has become the talk of the town after appearing in public

yesterday with the Chinese characters for “Taiwan” tattooed on his forehead, saying that he regretted having had it done while intoxicated.

Initial reports said that the tattoo was the result of a misunderstanding between the tattooist and a foreigner, who was identified by some media as being British. The Briton reportedly visited a local tattoo shop on Friday after getting drunk and made what he later called a “rash decision.”

A man, who claimed to be a tattoo artist, posted a photo of the Briton’s face online on Saturday, saying that the man came to his shop seeking ways to remove or modify the tattoo.

Because the tattoo covers a large surface of the man’s skin, the tattoo artist said he did not believe that he could manage the task and hence turned to the Internet for help.

The post attracted mixed reactions. Some people criticized the tattooist who tattooed “Taiwan” on the man’s forehead for lacking professionalism and ethical conduct.
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