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Lin vows greener Taiwan at 1st meeting of energy and carbon office

Taiwan Today
Date: August 18, 2016

Taiwan will achieve greater energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reductions while

Premier Lin Chuan (right) discusses ways of increasing renewable energy generation during a recent visit to a wind power farm in southern Taiwan’s Pingtung County. (CNA)

Premier Lin Chuan (right) discusses ways of increasing renewable energy generation during a recent visit to a wind power farm in southern Taiwan’s Pingtung County. (CNA)

regularly reviewing progress on reaching targets set out under the Paris Agreement, Premier Lin Chuan said Aug. 16 at the first committee meeting of the Energy and Carbon Emission Reductions Office under the Executive Yuan.

“As a member of the international community and an advanced economy, Taiwan is obliged to tackle global warming and climate change,” Lin said “Establishment of this office is significant at a time when these issues are the primary concern of every nation.”

According to Lin, the office has set three initial goals: boosting solar power generation, lifting wind power generation and industry-related investment and transforming Shalun Village of southern Taiwan’s Tainan City into a center for green energy R&D.

Under the first, the office will assist the Ministry of Economic Affairs in implementing Sept. 1 a two-year project aimed at increasing solar power installed capacity to 1.44 gigawatts in two years’ time. The latest MOEA statistics reveal that Taiwan had installed capacity of 832 megawatts in 2015.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei ranked second most liveable city in Greater China

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-08-18
By: Wendy Lee, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) global livability survey, Taipei has 6772523been ranked the world’s 60th best city in the latest ranking, while Melbourne retains the top spot sixth year in a row.

The annual survey scores 140 cities worldwide, and ranks the most livable locations on five lifestyle categories, including stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.

Melbourne remains the most liveable of the 140 cities in the survey, followed by Vienna, Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, and Adelaide.

Tokyo, ranked 13th, is among Asia’s most lievable cities, while Taipei remains the same as last year at 60, and the second most liveable in the Greater China region.     [FULL  STORY]

MAC says it has not been invited to Taipei-Shanghai forum

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/08/18
By: Chen Chia-lun and Y.F. Low

Taipei, Aug. 18 (CNA) Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said Thursday that its 201608180027t0001officials have not been invited to attend the upcoming twin-city forum between Taipei and Shanghai.

According to MAC Deputy Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正), officials from his council were not invited to previous forums and they have not received an invitation this year either.

Sha Hailin (沙海林), a member of the Standing Committee and head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China’s Shanghai Municipal Committee, will lead the Shanghai delegation to the Aug. 23 forum in Taipei.

During the forum, the two cities will sign memorandums of understanding on cooperation on marathon events, cooperation between the Taipei Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival, and cooperation between Taipei’s Wenshan District and Shanghai’s Songjiang District.     [FULL  STORY]

KMT dismisses rumors of a deal with White Wolf

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 19, 2016
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday dismissed speculation about a quid pro quo deal with China Unification Promotion Party (CUPP) Chairman Chang An-le (張安樂), alias the White Wolf.

Chang, a former leader of the Bamboo Union gang who spent many years in China while being on Taiwan’s most-wanted list for alleged violations of the Organized Crime Prevention Act (組織犯罪條例), on Wednesday led a large group of supporters to campaign for the KMT’s candidate in the Hualien mayoral by-election.

“KMT Hualien mayoral candidate Wei Chia-hsien’s (魏嘉賢) campaign headquarters did not arrange for Chang’s visit. Chang came of his own volition to show his support for Wei’s down-to-earth and honest campaigning style,” KMT Culture and Communications Committee director Chow Chi-wai (周志偉) said.     [FULL  STORY]

Tsai offers condolences to families of tank accident deadKAOHSIUNG, CNA

The China Post
Date: August 19, 2016
By: CNA

KAOHSIUNG–President Tsai Ing-wen traveled to Kaohsiung Thursday to personally offer

President Tsai Ing-wen embraces the widow of Sgt. Chen Shih-kun (陳世坤) at a mourning parlor in Kaohsiung City's Neimen District on Thursday, Aug. 18. Tsai personally offered her condolences to the families of three Army personnel who died after the tank they were traveling in fell into a stream during a training drill on Tuesday, Aug. 16. (Photo courtesy of the Kaohsiung City Government)

President Tsai Ing-wen embraces the widow of Sgt. Chen Shih-kun (陳世坤) at a mourning parlor in Kaohsiung City’s Neimen District on Thursday, Aug. 18. Tsai personally offered her condolences to the families of three Army personnel who died after the tank they were traveling in fell into a stream during a training drill on Tuesday, Aug. 16. (Photo courtesy of the Kaohsiung City Government)

her condolences to the families of three Army personnel who died after a tank in which they were traveling fell from a bridge two days earlier.

Tsai first visited the home of Sgt. Chen Shih-kun in the southern city’s Neimen District, where his family had set up a mourning parlor prior to the funeral.

Chen’s wife broke down in tears when Tsai held her in her arms.

The 31-year-old late sergeant left behind a 4-year-old daughter and a son born in June.

The president, accompanied by Defense Minister Feng Shih-kuan and Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu, then went to the city’s public funeral parlor and met with the families of Cpl. Chen Ping-yi and Pvt. Chang Chih-wei.

The three were killed after the Army CM-11 tank carrying them and two others fell into the Wangsha Stream in Pingtung County Tuesday after a training exercise.     [FULL  STORY]

Chinese officials outline rules to see new accords

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 19, 2016
By: Staff writer, with CNA

A senior Chinese official said that China will continue to honor its agreements with Taiwan, but ruled out any new accords unless Beijing’s conditions are met.

China’s Taiwan Affairs Office Minister Zhang Zhijun (張志軍) arrived in Hangzhou, China, on Wednesday for a meeting with the heads of nine Taiwanese business associations in Zhejiang Province.

At the meeting, Association of Taiwan Investment Enterprises on the Mainland executive vice president Hsieh Chih-tung (謝智通) told Zhang about the difficulties facing Taiwanese businesses that specialize in machinery, equipment and other fields, and expressed concern that China would reduce its preferential policies for Taiwanese businesses.

Zhang said that although talks between Taipei and Beijing have been suspended since January, Taiwanese businesses need not worry, because China will keep its promises and continue to honor the 23 agreements that the two sides have signed since 2008, according to people who attended the meeting.     [FULL  STORY]

Expelled HIV Student Wants to Return to University as Pressure on Government Mounts

‘I thought of each day as a war.’ Calls are mounting for the Taiwanese government to intervene in the case of a student who was expelled from a military university after he texted positive for HIV. The student just wants to complete his degree.

The News Lens
Date: 2016/08/17
By: Hsu Chia-yu

The student at the center of a growing controversy involving discrimination against

Photo Credit：jacinta lluch valero@Flickr CC BY SA 2.0

Photo Credit：jacinta lluch valero@Flickr CC BY SA 2.0

people with HIV/AIDS in Taiwan wants to return to the university that expelled him three years ago.

Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) this week fined National Defense University (NDU) NT$1 million (US$32,000) for expelling the HIV-positive student, who is known as Ah Li, in 2013.

Ah Li said on Monday that he is “doing okay” and still wants to return to school to complete his education.

In April, the High Court ruled against the CDC after it tried to have Ah Li reinstated at NDU. The Court said the CDC could take further action against the school under the “HIV Infection Control and Patient Rights Protection Act.” The CDC said earlier this week it will continue to appeal in court for the student to be reinstated.     [FULL  STORY]

Four WDC events are set to transform Taipei into global design role model

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-08-17
By: Taiwan News, Staff Writer

World Design Capita (WDC) Taipei 2016 extends a warm invitation to participants and 6772470visitors from around the world to come and share their ideas and experiences, and bear witness to Taipei’s transformation into a model city that incorporates design thinking into public policy.

“October will be a defining month for the World Design Capital Taipei 2016,” says Beatrice Hsieh, Commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Taipei City Government. “It is an opportunity both to reflect on the progress we have already made and to ignite international dialogue with other cities; to share experience and expertise. This is a chance to define a legacy for WDC Taipei 2016 that will be felt long into the future.”

Four major events in the WDC program will kick off in October: the International Design House Exhibition, International Design Week Forum, International Design Policy Conference, and Network of Cities Meeting.

The International Design House Exhibition will be held at Taipei City’s historic Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, bringing together local and international designers, studios, and organizations to curate a series of thought-provoking exhibitions that will challenge visitors to reconsider their relationship with the urban environment and experience first-hand how design can radically change the world’s cities.     [FULL  STORY]

Three new Pacific weather systems pose no threat to Taiwan: CWB

Focus Taiwan
Date:2016/08/17
By: S.F. Wang and Flor Wang

Taipei, Aug. 17 (CNA) Three tropical depressions have formed in the Pacific but none of

(From the Central Weather Bureau website)

(From the Central Weather Bureau website)

them are expected to affect Taiwan, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said Wednesday.

According to the CWB, two of the depressions are located off the coast of China’s Guangdong Province and will converge into one system as they move toward Guangdong.

The other low pressure system is currently located west northwest of Wake Island and is moving at 20 kilometers per hour in a northwest direction, the bureau said.

As that system is still some 4,000 km away from Taiwan, it is not likely to affect Taiwan soon, the CWB said, adding that it was too early to forecast whether that depression would develop into a tropical storm.     [FULL  STORY]

Commission rejects BCC request to reduce capital

ANTI-PROPAGANDA MACHINE:The agency has asked the firm to return two national broadcasting licenses, as they were granted to block Communist transmissions

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 18, 2016
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter

The National Communications Commission yesterday again rejected a Broadcasting Corp of China (BCC, 中廣) application to reduce its capital, saying that the company might hold illegal assets previously owned by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).

Yesterday’s ruling was the third time the commission has denied the nation’s largest radio network over capital reductions. The two previous applications were rejected in 2011 and last year.

Commission spokesperson Wong Po-tsong (翁柏宗) said that BCC applied to reduce its capital from approximately NT$3.2 billion to NT$628 million (US$101.74 million to US$19.97 million).     [FULL  STORY]