The China Post
Date: February 22, 2017
By: Joseph Yeh

TAIPEI, Taiwan — An official on Tuesday denied that an English-language magazine

under the Foreign Ministry had withheld a story featuring an interview with a transportation minister from the Ma Ying-jeou administration.

Yeh Kuang-shih (葉匡時), chief of the transportation ministry in the Ma administration, took to social media on Tuesday to complain that the Foreign Ministry’s Taiwan Review decided not to print a story in which he gave his views on the Taiwan High Speed Rail.

In a Facebook post, Yeh said he was interviewed by a reporter for an article to be published in an upcoming issue of Taiwan Review.

Yeh said he later received a call from the reporter, who said his superior told him the article would not be published.

In the post, Yeh suggested the decision may have been politically motivated.
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Scenes from the Hollywood film ‘Silence’ directed by Martin Scorsese were shot in this location

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/02/20
By: Rana Yeh, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Taipei (Taiwan News) — The Mysterious Shore in Jinshan District, New Taipei City was

the backdrop of many scenes in the new Hollywood movie “Silence,” which was directed by Martin Scorsese, making the spot famous overnight.

The Mysterious Shore is well known for its special shoreline scenery, including marine caves and reefs. Besides the scenery, visitors can also enjoy the beautiful seafood at the Shui-wei Fish Harbor restaurant nearby.

“Silence” was released on Feb. 17. in Taiwan. It was filmed entirely in Taiwan in locations including Taipei, Taichung and Hualien.   [SOURCE]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/02/20
By: Scarlett Chai and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Feb. 20 (CNA) Students from Taiwan’s diplomatic allies in Latin America and the

Caribbean will perform May 6 at a cultural event being organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) to promote exchanges, understanding and friendship between the people from those regions and Taiwan, MOFA said Monday.

The carnival will highlight the customs and culture of Taiwan’s 12 allies in the two regions through music and dance performances by their nationals studying in Taiwan, the ministry said.

The event, to be held May 6 at National Taiwan University of the Arts, will also include an exhibition of the food and art of the various countries, the ministry said.
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DEEP BLUE:The China Youth Corps first operated as a subordinate of the defense ministry’s General Political Warfare Department, now the Bureau of Political Warfare

Taipei Times
Date: Feb 21, 2017
By: Yang Chun-hui and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Cabinet’s Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee is on Friday expected to

order public hearings to investigate whether the China Youth Corps (CYC) is an affiliate organization under the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) de facto control.

The assets committee has said that the CYC — known as the China Youth Anti-Communist National Salvation Corps until 2000 — was under direct control of the KMT.

The public hearings are to determine whether the KMT continues to exercise de facto and direct control over the corps’ personal management and financial operations, a determination that could lead to the confiscation of any or all of the organization’s illegally-obtained assets, committee members said.

The corps’ legal status has changed three times since its founding on Oct. 31, 1952, the committee said.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-02-19

President Tsai Ing-wen spoke at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Taipei on

Sunday. She said that Germany had worked for years to pave the way for an apology and reparations for the Jewish people and others who were killed in the Holocaust. The president also spoke about how Germany had created education programs for people of all ages, as well as anti-nazi legislation.

President Tsai said that Taiwan, a country which has human rights abuses in its own past, should learn from Germany’s bravery in facing its history.

This year marks the second year that Taiwan has recognized Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is usually observed on January 27. This year’s event was sponsored by the Israeli and German representative offices in Taipei, as well as the Ministry of Education and the National Central Library.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/02/19
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Taipei (Taiwan News)–The Tiammu Ancient Trail, an old trail connecting Tiammu to

Yangmingshan, provides an easy getaway from the craziness and madness of life in Taipei as well as an alternative way to get to the Yangmingshan National Park. The trail takes hikers right into countryside environments the minute they set foot on the trail entrances.

The best way to get to the entrances of the trail is by bus. Hikers should get off at the Tiammu bus stop and walk to the end of Sec. 7, Zhongshan N. Rd., where the lower trailhead is located, or alternatively get off at the Shanzaihou stop on Yangmingshan and walk to the upper trailhead on Aifu 3rd Street.

Hikers taking the trail from the lower end will have to climb hundreds of steps along a large black water pipeline to a rest area where the trail begins to level and the steps are replaced by a gravel trail, where the pipeline continues underneath the gravel surface.
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Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/02/19
By: Emerson T. Lin and Ko Lin

Manila, Feb. 19 (CNA) Taiwan is optimistic that its bilateral relationship with the

Philippines will remain strong as economic links continue to grow, Taiwan’s representative to the Philippines Gary Song-huann Lin (林松煥) said Sunday.

Bilateral trade between the two countries increased from US$9.7 billion (NT$300 billion) in 2015 to US$10.8 billion last year, Lin said, noting that Taiwanese exports to the Philippines increased 15 percent year-on-year.

Furthermore, cooperation between both sides in such areas as technology, agriculture, and fishery also grew, Lin continued.

“Our relationship with the Philippines will be even stronger this year,” he said, citing a number of new projects between the two countries in the pipeline for the coming year.
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