The China Post
Date: April 26, 2017
By: CNA
This image was composed by the Wildlife First Aid Station on Monday, April 24, faking two “Shawarma babies.” The wildlife organization posted several images of shawarmas posing as real animals with information regarding the correct ways of taking care of and transporting injured wildlife animals on social media on Monday.
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Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-04-24
President Tsai Ing-wen says relations between Taiwan and Solomon Islands are
President Tsai Ing-wen meets Solomon Islands’s Deputy Prime Minister Manasseh Maelanga. (CNA)
steadily developing. She was speaking Monday while meeting with visiting Solomon Islands’s Deputy Prime Minister Manasseh Maelanga.
Tsai said Taiwan is the most important friend of the Solomon Islands, noting that the friendship had entered its 34th year. The president said the two sides are working together in the areas of agricultural technology, medical care and hygiene, talent development, environmental protection, and meterology.
Tsai said she would like to visit the South Pacific island nation if the opportunity arises.
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The Ministry of Culture introduced endemic species on its website to celebrate Earth Day
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/04/24
By: Rana Yeh, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Taiwan blue magpie. Photo courtesy of Ministry of Culture
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A Taiwan blue magpie is spotted fluttering its wings in the sky. To celebrate Earth day, the Ministry of Culture (MOC) posted several photos of species in Taiwan on its official Twitter account on April 22. [FULL STORY]
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/04/24
By: Wu Hsin-yun and S.C. Chang
Taipei, April 24 (CNA) Labor union leaders said Monday they will stage a big rally on 
Labor Day not to celebrate their day but to protest against what they perceive as “exploitation” by their “spoiled bosses.”
At a press conference, union leaders said they have formed the “2017 May 1 Action Alliance” to warn President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) not to take advantage of worker support for her ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and then ignore their appeals.
The central appeals of their May Day rally will be “opposing exploitation” and “securing guarantees for worker rights.” [FULL STORY]
OPPORTUNITY:The president’s low-key approach is not working, former officials said, as they urged her to seek allies among nations fearful of Chinese expansionism
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 25, 2017
By: Peng Wan-hsin and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) should not fear angering China and should take advantage of the threat of China’s expansionist activities to seek new diplomatic allies, a former official said, adding that the administration has failed over the past year to be proactive in its foreign affairs policies.
Former representative to Japan Koh Se-kai (許世楷) on Saturday said that China’s obstruction of the nation’s participation in international organizations such as the Interpol, the World Health Assembly (WHA) and the International Civil Aviation Organization is likely to worsen, citing comments from Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lee (李大維) that an invitation to this year’s WHA — the WHO’s highest decisionmaking body — is very unlikely.
Tsai is not making much progress in foreign affairs, despite high expectations from the public, Koh said, adding that Japan is on alert due to China’s expansionism and is consequently more willing to provide assistance to Taiwan.
“If the nation fails to express its identity and more positively respond to opportunities created by policy adjustments in the US and Japan, then this golden opportunity will soon be lost,” Koh said. [FULL STORY]
The China Post
Date: April 25, 2017
By: The China Post news staff
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The National Immigration Agency (NIA), in cooperation with the
NIA Director-general Ho Jung-chun, second from right, gives certificates to new immigrants for their outstanding craftsmanship. (Photo courtesy of the NIA)
National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute under the Ministry of Culture, has recently launched a show of handicrafts by new immigrants in Taipei.
The show highlights the craftsmanship by 10 new immigrants, who hail from mainland China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and Myanmar.
Four new immigrants from Vietnam, wearing traditional Vietnamese costumes, appeared for a catwalk performance. NIA Director-general Ho Jung-chun (何榮村) also joined the fashion show. [FULL STORY]
Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-04-23
The Hakka Tung Blossom Festival is under way in Changhua County, central Taiwan,
Tung flowers, which are a symbol of the Hakka people in Taiwan, are featured in this CNA file photo.
serving up traditional music and delicacies of the Hakka people.
The Hakka people are a linguistic group of Han Chinese who speak the Hakka dialect. About a quarter of Taiwan’s population is part Hakka.
The Hakka Affairs Council is the sponsor of the festival which will last through May 14, while the white tung flowers are in bloom.
Participants can embark on a bicycle tour of the local Hakka villages and try their hand at making traditional Hakka rice cakes. [SOURCE]
Taiwan’s southern city Kaohsiung’s third rail infrastructure aims to attract four million riders
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/04/23
By: Judy Lin, Taiwan News, Editor
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Taiwan southern city’s Kaohsiung Circular Light Rail Transit (高
The first phase constructions of Koahsiung Circular Light Rail Transit has been completed and been approved for operations by the Ministry of Transportation. (By Central News Agency)
雄環狀輕軌) will become the metropolis third light rail line that will connect all of its different rail networks and significantly boost Metro Rapid Transit (MRT) ridership.
The Kaohsiung Circular Light Rail Transit will become the first “mobile landmark” of the city to connect its MRT, Taiwan Railway, and High Speed Rail system.
One of the aims of the new light rail transit is making the city greener, reduce traffic congestion, cut carbon footprint, and clean up air pollution by changing local citizens’ commuting habits of being highly dependent on personal scooters and cars to embracing rail transport.
Another goal of the new rail infrastructure is to stimulate local tourism and raise The Koahsiung Circular Light Rail Transit ridership to 4 million to generate an annual tourism income of NT$11.3 billion (US$372.2 million). [FULL STORY]
Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/04/23
By: Hau Hsueh-ching and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, April 23 (CNA) Taichung police have busted a criminal organization based in the
(Photo courtesy of the police)
central Taiwan city that specialized in swindling money from female members of a Chinese dating website.
Seven suspects, including a man surnamed Lin believed to be the head of the telecommunications fraud ring, were arrested during an April 18 raid of an apartment in a high-end residential building in the city’s Beitun District of the city, Taichung police said Sunday.
Police also seized computers, mobile phones, fraud manuals and about NT$230,000 (US$7,576) in cash during the raid. [FULL STORY]
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 24, 2017
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter, with CNA
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) yesterday
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Hung Hsiu-chu, center, speaks at a campaign event in Chiayi County yesterday. Photo: Wang Shan-yen, Taipei Times
downplayed the low number of valid signatures she collected for the May 20 party chairperson election, saying the only figure that matters is the number of votes she would receive on election day.
Hung made the remarks in response to media queries about six chairperson candidates submitting a total of about 720,000 signatures from KMT members even though there are only 470,000 party members.
The discrepancy led to a low validity rate for collected signatures, with only 19 percent, or 24,848, of the 128,888 signatures submitted by Hung deemed valid by the KMT headquarters. [FULL STORY]
