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Changhua magistrate studies elderly care in Japan

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-16
By: Wu Jhe-hao and Theresa Tsai, Central News Agency

Taipei, July 16 (CNA) Changhua County Magistrate Wei Ming-ku (魏明谷) is in Japan this week to learn from the Japanese experience in caring for senior citizens, in the hope of improving Changhua’s own program for the elderly.

As Taiwan is gradually shifting into an aged society, it is important to study measures of promoting long-term care and helping the elderly stay healthy, Wei said. Those accompanying Wei on this 6-day visit include Deputy Magistrate Chou Chu-chung (周志中), Commissioner of Changhua County Public Health Bureau Yeh Yen-po (葉彥伯) and Deputy Director of Changhua Christian Hospital Chou Hsien-chang (周賢彰).     [FULL  STORY]

Five minor earthquakes rattle Taiwan, no damage reported

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/16
By: Lo Kuang-jen and Lilian Wu

Taipei, July 16 (CNA) Five earthquakes rattled Taiwan on Saturday between about 9 a.m. and 5 201607160017t0001p.m., but did not result in any damage, according to the Central Weather Bureau.

The strongest temblor with a magnitude of 4.1 hit Zhunan in Miaoli County at 9:19 a.m., the bureau’s seismology data showed.

Though the quake’s magnitude was not threatening, its very shallow depth of 3.5 kilometers meant that it still registered an intensity of 4 in Zhunan and an intensity of 3 in Miaoli City.

Intensity, measured in Taiwan on a 1-7 scale, gauges the actual effect of a temblor at a specific location. An intensity of 4 means structures can shake strongly.     [FULL  STORY]

Lawmakers criticize Ma’s counsel

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 17, 2016
By: Tseng Wei-chen and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer

Pan-green lawmakers yesterday asked why former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) did not implement suggestions he made of ways to uphold the nation’s sovereignty over Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島) while he was president.

At a news conference on Thursday, Ma said that as he is no longer in office, he would refrain from talking too much about the issue of the South China Sea, instead urging patience from the public as the new government acts to safeguard national sovereignty, adding that it needs time and space to do so effectively.

However, Ma yesterday listed 10 suggestions to protect sovereignty over Itu Aba in a letter published by the Chinese-language United Daily News.     [FULL  STORY]

ATM heist chief suspect still in Taiwan, police sources say

The China Post
Date: July 17, 2016
By: The China Post news staff

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The police on Saturday released images of 10 suspects in Taiwan’s biggest-ever ATM heist, with one believed to be still in Taiwan.

Nine of the suspects have already fled, but the alleged chief suspect, Andrejs Peregudovs, from Latvia, is believed to be still hiding in Northern Taiwan, said a senior detective from the Taipei police department, Lin Chih-cheng.

The 10 suspects, most of them Russian, have been identified from video footage captured at First Bank ATMs hacked by criminals in Taipei City. Since other First Bank ATMs in New Taipei and Taichung were also hacked, police believe there might be more suspects still at large, Lin said.

First Bank, the sole target of the heist, lost more than NT$80 million during the weekend of July 9 and 10, but police believe the money is Taiwan through illegal channels.

Evidence suggests that Peregudovs met with the other suspects, and he was seen at a five-star hotel in Taipei before the robbery, Lin said.

According to police, the gang worked in groups of up to three members. They hacked into the bank’s ATM system, and used software to remotely still in Taiwan.     [FULL  STORY]

Paintings to see light of day after decades in storage

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 17, 2016
By: Wu Po-hsuan / Staff reporter

Two paintings by renowned painter Yang San-lang (楊三郎) that had been kept in storage for

Teachers, students and friends of National Taiwan University’s department of forestry and resource conservation yesterday hold up two renovated paintings by Taiwanese painter Yang San-lang. Photo: Wu Po-hsuan, Taipei Times

Teachers, students and friends of National Taiwan University’s department of forestry and resource conservation yesterday hold up two renovated paintings by Taiwanese painter Yang San-lang. Photo: Wu Po-hsuan, Taipei Times

about six decades and nearly discarded by National Taiwan University’s department of forestry and resource conservation are to see the light of day after they were salvaged and restored.

Yang, born in 1907, is regarded as a national treasure for his contributions to the establishment and development of Taiwanese art. He died in 1995.

Department head Yuan Hsiao-wei (袁孝維) said Yang painted the two pictures, titled Landscape I and Landscape II, 58 years ago at the behest of Tso Mao-hsiung (鄒茂雄), an alumnus, to mark the inauguration of the department’s research building.

Due to Tso’s background as a former student, he had access to the Xitou Forest in Nantou County and took Yang there, where he painted the pieces, Yuan said, adding that Yang agreed to let the department purchase the two paintings in 1958 for a small fee.     [FULL  STORY]

Violence in Taiwan’s Emergency Rooms: When Medical Staff Get Abused

The News Lens
Date: 2016/07/14
By: Chang Shin-wei

The current legal system only allows complaints against medical personnel. Some say there

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should also be a channel for complaints against patients.

On July 13, a 25-year-old man went to the emergency room at Kuan Tien Hospital General Hospital in Taichung to receive treatment for a 3-cm-long cut on his hand. Accusing the nurse of treating him with bad attitude, the man’s mother shouted and, along with four other family members, beat the nurse. Three other nurses who attempted to stop the fight were also injured.

In an interview with the Apple Daily, the family says the bad attitude of the nurse “provoked them to commit the crime.” In addition, they say the nurse did not have a good attitude and thus was not abiding the moral principles as a medical staff.

The abused nurse posted a photo of his wound from the incident and thousands of netizens are now calling for the abuse of medical personnel to stop. The Ministry of Health and Welfare has also vowed to bring the culprits to justice.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan caught in a game of islands and rocks

EDITORIAL
Date: 2016-07-14
By: Taiwan News, Staff Writer

As predicted by many, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague issued a ruling July 12 which favored the Philippines over China in their dispute in the South China Sea.

The five-member panel came to the conclusion that China could not exert historic rights over the area, thus rejecting its claims based on the so-called “nine-dash line” over a large part of the South China Sea extending deeply into Southeast Asia.

While a slap in the face for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s aggressive policies in the Pacific might seem at first look like good news for Taiwan, the island nation became indirectly involved in the PCA verdict, and completely on the negative side.

Even though the case was brought by the Philippines against China and other nations, including Taiwan, should not have been involved or even mentioned, the PCA went out of its way to make remarks completely unacceptable to Taiwan.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan, Czech Republic to enhance scientific cooperation

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/07
By: Tang Pei-chi and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, July 7 (CNA) Representatives from Taiwan and the Czech Republic have recently signed a scientific cooperation pact to promote research cooperation between young scientists in the two countries to pave the way for them to seek projects from various European Union (EU) institutions, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) official said Thursday.

Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Tsai Mi-ching (蔡明祺) and Jiri Drahos, president of the Czech Academy of Sciences, inked a new version of the Agreement on Scientific Cooperation between the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan and the Czech Academy of Sciences on June 29, according to Anna Kao (高安), director general of MOFA’s Department of European Affairs.     [FULL  STORY]

Cabinet vows to act on Aboriginal demands

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 15, 2016
By: Loa Iok-sin / Staff reporter

The Executive Yuan yesterday vowed to legislate on Aboriginal domains and languages, adding

Members of the Aboriginal Transitional Justice Alliance demonstrate outside the Eastern Gate in Pingtung County on July 2. Photo: Tsai Tsung-hsien, Taipei Times

Members of the Aboriginal Transitional Justice Alliance demonstrate outside the Eastern Gate in Pingtung County on July 2. Photo: Tsai Tsung-hsien, Taipei Times

that it would help to reclaim Aboriginal lands illegitimately occupied by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) during the authoritarian White Terror era.

Speaking to reporters at a post-meeting news conference yesterday, Cabinet spokesman Tung Chen-yuan (童振源) said that the Executive Yuan has rubber-stamped a transitional justice plan for the nation’s Aborigines drafted by the Council of Indigenous Peoples that would deal with their land, languages and cultural issues.

“President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) will formally apologize to the nation’s Aborigines in her capacity as president and Premier Lin Chuan (林全) said during the meeting that bills on Aboriginal traditional domains and languages should be passed within three years,” Tung said.

Briefing the media, Council of Indigenous Peoples Minister Icyang Parod said that, after the Aboriginal Basic Act (原住民族基本法) was passed in 2005 to set a framework for the protection of Aboriginal rights, other laws on the details — including a draft bill on Aboriginal land and water, as well as the development of Aboriginal languages — were never passed by the legislature when the KMT had a majority.     [FULL  STORY]

Foreign minister to visit Latin America

The China Post
Date: July 15, 2016
By: Joseph Yeh

TAIPEI, Taiwan — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) is arranging for Foreign Minister David p15dLee (李大維) to visit Latin American next month to meet with local senior officials to solidify ties with allies in the region, a MOFA official said Thursday.

Miguel Tsao (曹立傑), director-general of MOFA’s Department of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs, said at a regular news briefing that the department is scheduling for August a visit by Lee to the region where 12 of the R.O.C’s 22 diplomatic allies are located.

Lee’s scheduled weeklong trip is principally intended as an opportunity for him to host an annual regional briefing featuring 22 R.O.C. ambassadors and top representatives stationed in countries in the region.

“During the briefing, the minister will seek to convey the new administration’s diplomatic policies,” he said.     [FULL  STORY]