Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-22
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A total of 198 Taiwanese citizens have been deported to China from other countries as fraud suspects since last April, the Mainland Affairs Council announced Thursday.

The deportations have disturbed relations between Taiwan on the one hand, which wants its citizens to be investigated and tried in their home country, and the other countries and China on the other hand. Beijing says that since most of the fraud ring’s victims were Chinese nationals, it should take the lead in the investigation.

The first instance which was given prominent media coverage was the expulsion of 50 Taiwanese from Kenya, but recently Armenia deported 78 Taiwanese suspects to China. Cambodia and Malaysia sent 38 and 32 Taiwanese to China respectively, the MAC said.

Each time the MAC receives news that Taiwanese citizens are about to be put on a plane for China instead of Taiwan, it will protest with Beijing, a spokesman said Thursday. Taiwanese nationals should not be incarcerated in China for alleged crimes committed elsewhere until an agreement on such cases was reached, he said.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/22
By: Lilain Wu

Taipei, Sept. 22 (CNA) Pope Francis blessed Taiwan on Wednesday when he received the island’s

Control Yuan Vice President Sun Ta-chuan (孫大川), head of a Taiwanese delegation, in a General Audience Wednesday.

The delegation departed from Taiwan for the Vatican Tuesday and was arranged by the Republic of China (Taiwan) Embassy at the Holy See to see the Pope in his general audience the following day.

On Wednesday, Sun, a Catholic himself, paid regards to the Pope on behalf of Taiwan and the Pope responded by saying “Bless Taiwan.”

The delegation’s goal is to inspect the government’s mission in pushing for humanitarian diplomacy.     [FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: September 22, 2016
By: CNA

Taichung Mayor Lin Chia-long, fourth from left, and others stand at a press conference to announce upcoming activities in the central city on Fishermen’s Day, Saturday, Sept. 24. Lin said he hopes the activities can promote the city’s fishery and tourism resources. Taiwan’s Fishermen’s Day falls on July 1 every year, but to mark it, activities will be held around the island between July and September, according to the Council of Agriculture.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-21
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

An antique collector and dealer surnamed Huang is suspected of stealing antiques from a famed old

house on the offshore island of Kinmen, according to a police investigation.

Chin Hu Police Station of Kinmen County Police Bureau said on Wednesday that the owner of a well-known “five-foot way western-style house” in Jinsha Township surnamed Huang told police that after he came back from a medical trip to Taiwan in early September, he found that the side door of his house was opened, two drawers inside the house had been ransacked, a safe had been pried open, and household items were scattered on the ground. Huang said he found scores of antiques, including contracts, old books, incense burners, bronze mirrors, Silver Dragon coins, “Yuan big head” coins, kaoliang liquor and western liquor had been stolen. Police said Huang reported the theft immediately.

Owner of the old house, surnamed Huang, identifies the stolen goods.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/21
By: Esme Jiang and Lilian Wu

Taipei, Sept. 21 (CNA) Trend Micro Inc. (趨勢科技), a leading global software security company, said Wednesday that ransomware attacks have been escalating in Taiwan, registering 2 million over the past six months.

On average, there is a ransomware attack every eight seconds in Taiwan, with 40 percent targeting personal computers, said Bob Hung (洪偉淦), general manager of Trend Micro’s Taiwan & Hong Kong Business Unit.

That is the second highest attack rate in Asia-Pacific region, after Japan, he said.

In the first half of 2016, the number of attacks in Taiwan was four times the number in the same period last year, Hung said.

The major concerns among Taiwan consumers arising from the ransomware threats include losing photo files, spending a lot of money to clean up their computers, and not being able to access important documents, according to Trend Micro.      [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-20
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the life sentence for a business man who murdered his wife and two daughters just to please his mistress, and the mother of the murdered wife Tuesday expressed her grief over the losses of her daughter and granddaughters over the years and disappointment over the court’s final ruling to spare the murderer’s life.

According to court reports, ten years ago, Chang He-ling, under the urge of his mistress, Su Yi-chen, used ether to anesthetize his wife, Tsai Ting-yu, and two toddler daughters, and then turned on fuel gas to kill them, making them look like they died from gas poisoning. Chang even used his cell phone to broadcast the killing process live to his mistress.

The case went through five trials and Chang was sentenced to death several times. However, in the most recent trial, judges changed the death sentence to life in prison on April 29 this year on the grounds that Chang had no criminal records, that he killed his daughters, who whom he had normal interaction at regular times, out of spontaneity, and that he could be educated to become a better person.     [FULL  STORY]