Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/10
By: Light McCandless, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)–If you have a good level of Chinese, Taipei MOCA Design

Branch offers classes for those wanting to learn traditional crafts. Workshop classes with small numbers create a space for craftsworkers to interact and pass on skills to students.

Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, the National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute and MOCA Design Branch.

Classes are held at the NTCRDI in Nanhai Road.(工藝學堂：臺北市中正區南海路41號6樓)    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/10
By: Li Hsien-feng and William Yen

Taipei, Sept. 10 (CNA) A French Catholic priest was granted Taiwanese citizenship Sunday without having to give up citizenship in his home country and said he would like to be buried in the Hualien township of Yuli, where he has been serving for most of his 58 years in Taiwan.

Father Maurice Poinsot (潘世光), 85, was presented with a Taiwan national identity card, household registration certificate, and permanent residency card, at a ceremony at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Yuli Township, Hualien County.

The documents were presented by Hsiao Ming-chia (蕭明甲), head of the Hualien County Government Civil Affairs Department, who also tried to make the occasion a celebration of the priest’s birthday, which falls on Sept. 12.

“Getting old is no good,” Poinsot said. “There’s no need to celebrate because today is not my birthday.”    [FULL  STORY]

The event is organised by International Hospital Federation, which works closely with the WHO

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/09
By: Light McCandless, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)–This November, Taipei will be full of health care professionals.

Over 1,000 hospital managers, medical professionals, and other health care industry representatives will arrive from 20 countries to attend the World Hospital Congress in Taipei. They will share knowledge, expertise, and experience on hospital management.

The World Hospital Congress is the International Hospital Federation’s (IHF) main event, and it is the first time that this has been held in Taiwan.

Kao Hsiao-lin ( 高小玲), a consultant for the Taiwan Hospital Association said that the IHF works closely with the World Health Organization, an international agency that Taiwan wants very much to take part in.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/09
By: Ko Lin

Taipei, Sept. 9 (CNA) A tropical depression located near Guam has developed into this

year’s 18th tropical storm and is expected to affect Taiwan next Wednesday, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Saturday.

Tropical Storm Talim was located about 2,450 kilometers south-southeast of Taiwan’s southernmost tip, Eluanbi, at 8 a.m. Saturday, traveling at 24 kilometers per hour in a west-northwesterly direction, the bureau said.

Having a radius of 80 kilometers, the storm was packing sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour with gusts up to 90 kph, according to data provided by the CWB.
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TRADITIONAL VIEW:The KMT chairman also weighed in on the textbook debate, saying that proponents of fewer classical Chinese texts are ‘completely wrong’

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 10, 2017
By Sean Lin / Staff reporter

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) yesterday said that

exchanging votes in the election of KMT Central Committee members is allowable, as long as bribery is not involved.

Wu made the remark before casting his votes in yesterday’s internal party election for 210 Central Committee members among 358 nominated party representatives.
As each of the 2,046 representatives gets to cast 105 votes, it is only natural that some candidates who are friends had formed alliances to vote for each other, Wu said.

For instance, if two groups of 30 and 40 representatives formed an alliance to vote for each other, it would take up 70 of the votes each members is allowed to cast, leaving them with 35 votes for candidates outside the alliance, Wu said.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 09, 2017
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter

Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee Chairman Lin Feng-cheng yesterday said

during his inauguration speech that his greatest hope for the committee is to “eliminate” it.

Lin was sworn in as head of the committee, filling the post left vacant by Wellington Koo (顧立雄), who has been tapped to run the Financial Supervisory Commission.

“My greatest hope is to eliminate the committee. I hope in the future there will no longer be an assets settlement committee,” Lin said.

Asked by the media for clarification, Lin said his reasoning was simple: He hopes the commission’s work of accounting for and dealing with all ill-gotten party assets will proceed smoothly and efficiently, “so there would be no need for the committee to exist.”   [FULL  STORY]