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400 Citi Volunteers Participate in Charity Car Wash for 2017 Citi Global Community Day

The China Post
Date: June 11, 2017
By: The China Post news staff

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Celebrating its 12th annual Citi Global Community Day (GCD),

Paulus Mok, Citi Country Officer for Taiwan leads the management team participating charity car wash with 400 Citi volunteers for 2017 Citi Global Community Day. (Courtesy of Citi)

Citibank Taiwan partnered with the Yu-Cheng Social Welfare Foundation to hold a charity car wash on June 10 in Dazhi, Taipei. More than 400 Citi volunteers participated in the charitable event, raising funds for the Taipei-based foundation in a bid to help them set up a “learning cafe” for young people with mental and intellectual disabilities to acquire skills. Cheng Cheng-mount, Vice Chairperson of the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), Taipei Department of Labor Commissioner Lai Hsiang-lin and Deputy Commissioner Chen Hui-chi also attended today’s Global Community Day volunteer event. In addition, in an effort to demonstrate its commitment to corporate social responsibility, Citibank Taiwan today released the first Corporate Social Responsibility Report (CSR Report) in Taiwan, which embodies the leading bank’s CSR performance in 2016.    [FULL  STORY]

East Asian Weather Report for Sunday, June 11

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-06-106/

In Taiwan, Taipei in the north will be partly cloudy with occasional afternoon thundershowers or thunderstorms. Temperatures will range between 25 and 36 C. Kaohsiung in the south will be mostly clear with a high of 33 C.

Elsewhere in Asia, Hong Kong will be partly cloudy with a high of 32 C. Beijing will be partly cloudy with a high of 27 C. Tokyo will be mostly sunny with a high of 25 C. And Seoul will be mostly cloudy with a high of 26 C.    [FULL  STORY]

Biggest night market in northern Taiwan opens today

The Sing Ren Garden Night Market is opening tonight in New Taipei City as the largest night market in northern Taiwan

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/06/10
By: Rana Yeh, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Sing Ren Garden Night Market (興仁花園夜市) opens tonight officially in

Night market in Taiwan(By Central News Agency)

New Taipei’s Shulin District (樹林區), becoming the biggest night market in northern Taiwan.

Covering a total area of 4.95 hectares, 400 vendors have marched into the Sing Ren Night Market. The traditional Taiwanese street food, exotic cuisine and trendy clothing stands are all settled and ready to serve all the visitors. A large playground area is also provided for children.

The night market has been planned and designed for four years, according to the organizer. The focus not only includes its large scale, but also the environmental friendliness and great sanitary. Every vendor is requested to provide filtered water, environment-friendly chopsticks and dissoluble plastic bags.

The organizer indicated that they will carry out hygienic tests for all the stalls three times a week in order to maintain the cleanliness of the market, trying to bring in a new night market culture in Taiwan.
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Afternoon thunderstorms likely in some parts of Taiwan Saturday

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/06/10
By: Chiu Shiang-ping and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, June 10 (CNA) The Central Weather Bureau said Saturday that northern, central, northeastern and eastern Taiwan as well as mountainous parts of the country could expect thunderstorms in the afternoon.

Other areas could see cloudy to sunny weather, with daytime highs expected to hit 32-35 degrees Celsius, forecasters said.

The weather pattern could last into next Tuesday, when sporadic thunderstorms are likely islandwide, according to the bureau.

From next Wednesday to June 19, however, the weather will become unstable following the arrival of a stationary front — a typical Plum Rain feature.    [FULL  STORY]

Police cooperation with China slowed

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 11, 2017
By: Staff writer, with CNA

High-level cross-Taiwan Strait official police exchanges have stopped in the wake of increased tension between the two sides, National Police Agency Director-General Chen Kuo-en (陳國恩) said.

High-level exchanges between the two sides have stopped, Chen said, although information exchanges and the mutual notification system remain in place.

Cross-strait relations became more tense since China blocked Taiwan’s participation in the annual World Health Assembly last month and since the detention of Taiwanese human rights advocate Lee Ming-che (李明哲) in March.

According to agency statistics, the two sides of the strait have continued to cooperate on criminal investigations, but such cooperation has slowed, Chen said    [FULL  STORY]

Heavy rain could bring widespread damage next week

The China Post
Date: June 10, 2017
By: The China Post

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Weather experts are warning that next week could see days of

CNA)

strong downpours that could bring widespread damage to Taiwan.

Heavy and sudden rainfall characteristic of the plum rain season will affect Taiwan starting as early as Wednesday, according to meteorologist Wu Te-rong. The weather system could hover over Taiwan for up to 120 hours, bringing rainfall levels similar to those experienced last week, which caused extensive flooding and extensive crop damage

Meteorologist Peng Chi-ming characterized the system as having “disaster potential” and said it could last for up to six days.    [FULL  STORY]

FSC: Market effects of UK election only short-term

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-06-09

The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) expects market fallout from the surprise

Cheng said on Friday that market effects of UK election only short-term. (CNA photo)

result of the UK’s general election on Thursday to be short-term. Prime Minister Theresa May had called an early election in the hope of increasing her Conservative party’s parliamentary majority. Instead, her majority was wiped out, with major gains for the main opposition Labour party.

UK stocks dropped on the election result, with the pound also falling by 1.5% against the US dollar. The deputy head of the FSC, Cheng Cheng-mount, said last year’s Brexit referendum in the UK was a “black swan” event. But he said Thursday’s election vindicated expectations that the process of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU would not be smooth.

“Even if the Brexit process is not smooth, it is still a long process. The financial market’s reaction will be over in a few days, it won’t be a long-term shock. The lowest the pound has been against the US dollar was 1.22, at the moment it’s 1.27, the position is not too dangerous,” said Cheng.    [FULL  STORY]

No more high-level contacts between police Taiwan and China

Taiwan police chief says still exchanges of data at lower levels

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/06/09
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – High-level contacts between the police forces of Taiwan and

Taiwan national police chief Chen Kuo-en. (By Central News Agency)

China have ceased, but exchanges of information on crime still continue, the island’s top police chief said Friday.

Despite the existence of a bilateral judicial cooperation agreement, relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits have been frosty due to China’s opposition to the government of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), who came to power last year after landslide victories in presidential and legislative elections.

At the higher echelons of the police hierarchy, interaction between Chinese and Taiwanese officers has all but stopped, National Police Agency (警政署) Director-General Chen Kuo-en (陳國恩) told a Taiwan media interview Friday.
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Japanese fan honored at Taiwan railway’s anniversary celebration

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/06/09
By: Wang Shu-feng and Elaine Hou

Taipei, June 9 (CNA) A Japanese railway fan was honored as “a friend of Taiwan’s railways” at a celebration to mark the 130th anniversary of the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) in Taipei on Friday.

Yoshiyuki Kekke, 64, has visited Taiwan more than 300 times over the past 37 years, spending more than NT$5.5 million (US$182,414) on the trips.

Kekke, who was born in Tokyo in 1953, joined a railway club while at university and researched the development of the railway system in Japan, including the routes and trains. He currently works for a Japanese company that publishes railway publications.

He said he has ridden trains in Australia, as well as other Asian and European countries, but Taiwan is still his favorite travel destination.    [FULL  STORY]

Official apologizes, holds EIA meeting

DIFFERING VIEWS:Participants at the public hearing argued over the roles and responsibilities of central and local governments, and issues such as mining rights

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 10, 2017
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter

Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Deputy Minister Thomas Shun-Kuei

Environmental Protection Administration Deputy Minister Thomas Shun-Kuei Chan bows in apology at the opening of a public hearing on proposed amendments to environmental impact assessment rules yesterday in Taipei. Photo: Yang Mien-chieh, Taipei Times

Chan (詹順貴) yesterday opened the first public hearing on proposed amendments to environmental impact assessment (EIA) regulations by apologizing for storming out of the meeting earlier this week.

The first hearing was supposed to convene on Tuesday, but it broke up due to conflict between Chan and Taiwan Water Conservation Alliance director Jennifer Nien (粘麗玉).

The hearing was held to discuss proposed amendments to the Standards for Determining Specific Items and Scope of Environmental Impact Assessments for Development Activities (開發行為應實施環境影響評估細目及範圍認定標準) and Environmental Impact Assessment Enforcement Rules (環境影響評估法施行細則).

While Chan apologized to Nien and other attendees for losing his temper on Tuesday, yesterday’s meeting hit some bumps over differences in opinion, mainly over the division of responsibility between the central and local governments.    [FULL  STORY]