The China Post
Date: April 15, 2017
By: CNA

Taiwan’s first woman postal inspector Wang Chuen-mei (王春美) is deployed to provide roadside assistance to her subordinate yesterday. Her daily responsibilities include managing and supervising daily operations. However, Wang is most well-known for her hardworking attitude and her kindness toward subordinates and coworkers, which was listed as a main reason for her promotion..    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-04-13

The head of the Council of Indigenous Peoples, Icyang Parod, is backing a bill to protect

Taiwan’s indigenous languages. The bill was drawn up by the Council and came before the Legislature for review Thursday.

Taiwan is home to 16 officially recognized indigenous groups, each with its own language. However, the minister said that ten of these languages are critically endangered. He said this was part of a wider loss of speakers brought about by social change. He said that while the constitution protects indigenous languages and culture, there is not yet any law specifying how this should be done.

Icyang Parod outlined several of the bill’s provisions. They include a rule putting the central government in charge of standardizing writing systems and coining new words in these languages. The bill will also require the government to come up with development policies for each language based on its use and how well it is being passed on.
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NGOs urge Taiwanese government to upgrade Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act to catch up with the times

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/04/13
By: Judy Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—More than 72 civil organizations in Taiwan submitted a petition to lawmakers to update the decade-old Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act ahead of the World No Tobacco Month in May, following latest international studies indicating a rise in smoking related deaths at a press conference on Wednesday.

Lastest studies by Global Burden of Disease report conducted by The Lancet from 1995-2015, showed growing trends of smoking related deaths, such as heart diseases, tuberculosis, oral cancer, lung cancer, and others.

Smoking related deaths claimed lives of 6.4 million people in 2015, amounting to 11.5 percent of total global deaths that year, according to the report.   [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/04/13
By: Jeffrey Wu and Lilian Wu

Taipei, April 13 (CNA) Yahoo Kimo apologized on Thursday after a glitch in its online shopping system was discovered to have potentially resulted in patrons who won prizes on the uniform invoice lottery over the past few months not being notified.

Yahoo Kimo said it will start to notify invoice winners and those unable to claim the cash in time will be fully compensated.

The uniform invoice lottery system, which draws winning numbers every two months, was created to encourage consumers to collect sales invoices as part of a national efforts to prevent tax evasion by retailers.

Yahoo Kimo online buyers receive an e-invoice lottery receipt and the company is obliged to notify the winners.    [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: April 14, 2017
By: Dimitri Bruyas, Supplement Writer

Located just a one-minute walk from an MRT station in Taipei’s East District, Sunrise

Estate (揚昇君苑) is a favorite among Taiwan’s cross-strait entrepreneurs.

The 24-story building was developed by the Sunrise Group, after it completed a luxury estate project in Taipei’s Bo Ai Special Zone (揚昇君臨).

Sunrise Estate has a prime location a mere 100 meters away from Songshan Metro Station, facing roads on three sides of the building.

With a front-row seat to a river, Sunrise Estate combines many coveted features including a convenient location and steel-concrete construction developed with Evergreen Consulting Engineering, the company behind Taipei 101.

From its financial office buildings on Nanjing Songjiang Boulevard to its landmark residential estates, Sunrise Group has always chosen its locations with meticulous care and an eye toward creating one perfect project after another. Sunrise Estate faces the Keelung River and sits near the Rainbow Bridge, with Taipei 101 at its back and the bustling city center at its feet.   [FULL STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-04-12

Taiwan’s flag at the 2017 World Baseball Classic. (CNA file photo)
The national flag of the Republic of China (ROC), which is the official name of Taiwan, will be allowed at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei. That was the word from the head of Taiwan’s Sports Administration, Lin Te-fu, on Wednesday.

Lin was responding to a question from lawmaker Wu Su-yao at the legislature’s Education and Culture Committee. Wu asked him to give a clear explanation of what sorts of items would be allowed at sporting venues, and what would be considered “politically sensitive.” Wu said it was important for Taiwan to make sure that, as the host nation, it did not create a stir at its own event.

When Wu asked if the nation’s flag would be allowed inside the venue as it was when Taipei hosted the Deaflympics in 2009, Lin said that would be acceptable.
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We will learn what decision has been reached at their relaunch tomorrow, as well as what will happen about their outstanding NT$231 million in fines.

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/04/12
By: David Spencer, Taiwan News, Contributing Writer

Uber is finally returning to Taiwan after a two-month hiatus in a decision which will be

welcomed by everyone, with the exception of a few vested interest groups keen to maintain the existing status quo.

Uber has swept the globe since it was first launched in 2009. It first arrived in Taiwan to much fanfare in 2013 with actor and TV hosts Alex and Lisa Wang taking a ride to mark the occasion. At the time, Taipei was only its third Asian city location, which was an indication of how positively Uber viewed the free-market economy in Taiwan.

Uber in Taiwan

Since then, it has recorded more than 15 million rides and provided work for more than 100,000 drivers. But there have also been significant issues with the Taiwanese Government, which have hamstrung Uber’s operations here and finally led to their withdrawal from the market earlier this year.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/04/12
By: Emmanuelle Tzeng, Sunrise Huang and Kuo Chung-han

Taipei, April 12 (CNA) “Toward the Sun” (迎向邊疆公路), a 28-minute documentary by a

Taiwanese college student, has been one of the 16 films selected by the Cinefondation, a foundation under the aegis of the Film Festival, on Wednesday.

The 16 films (14 works of fiction and 2 animations) are selected from among 2,600 works submitted by film schools from all over the world this year, according to the Cinefondation, created to inspire and support the next generation of international filmmakers.

The Cinefondation will award the best three of the 16 on May 26.    [FULL  STORY]