Taiwan News
Date: 2015-09-27
By: Ko Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

As Typhoon Dujuan prepares to make landfall, the Taipei Water Department said it will

Water dept. discloses turbidity data periodically. Central News Agency

publicly disclose water turbidity level in the greater Taipei metropolitan area every three hours beginning Sunday.

According to the water department’s Director Chen Chin-hsiang, the water murkiness level for Xindian River is currently measured at 50 nephelometric turbidity units (NTU).

“The public can be rest assured that the city’s drinking water remains safe and is not affected by the current rain,” Chen said.

Residents in northern Taiwan have expressed worry that the coming typhoon will affect drinking water as witnessed during Typhoon Soudelor in early August, where water have turned murky for over a week. At the time, the turbid water reached as high as 39,000 NTUs.

As a newly-implemented standard of procedure, Chen said the department will periodically update turbidity measurements from all three of its water purification plants in the greater Taipei area, including its Jhitan treatment plants in Xindian, Chunghsin and Gongguan.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/27
By: Emmanuelle Tzeng and Jay Chen

Taipei, Sept. 27 (CNA) A team from a Kaohsiung university, southern Taiwan, on Sunday won the top trophy at the Mondial du Pain, a major bakery competition held in the central French city of Saint-Etienne every two years.

Chang Min-hsu of National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism and his team won the Ambassadors’ Trophy and an artistic award, after they were placed second two years ago.

An orchestral version of the Republic of China (Taiwan) national anthem was played as Chang and his team went on stage to receive their awards.

Want China Times
Date: 2015-09-26
By: Staff Reporter

Scholars in China have urged Chinese president Xi Jinping not to discuss the Taiwan issue

Xi Jinping and Barack Obama. (Photo/Xinhua)

with US president Barack Obama during the Chinese leader’s ongoing visit to the United States, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily.

Shen Dingli, vice dean of Fudan University’s International Issues Study Institute, said the Taiwan issue should only be discussed by the two leaders if Taiwan asserts its independence. Tsai Ing-wen, chair and presidential candidate of Taiwan’s major opposition Democratic Progressive Party, has pledged to maintain the status quo and so it is unnecessary for the two leaders to discuss the Taiwan issue at the moment, said Shen. He said the US opposition to unilateral changes to the status quo by either side across the Taiwan Strait suggests Washington will not allow Taiwan to assert its independence.

Shen also said that the US may become less willing to intervene in cross-strait relations in ten or 20 years when China’s overall national strength surpasses the US and that this would give Beijing the opportunity to annex Taiwan.     [FULL  STORY]

‘STRONG COMMITMENT’:US President Barack Obama said that he reiterated his responsibility to uphold the ‘one China’ policy during the closed-door discussions

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 27, 2015
By: William Lowther  /  Staff reporter in WASHINGTON, with AFP

US President Barack Obama reportedly declared his “strong commitment” to the Three

A group of Taiwanese protest outside the White House during closed-door discussions between US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington on Friday. Photo courtesy of Formosan Association for Public Affairs

Joint Communiques and the Taiwan Relations Act during his White House summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平).

While details of discussions concerning Taiwan remain secret, Obama is understood to have firmly supported Taiwan.

A congressional source told the Taipei Times that Xi raised the subject and Obama responded.

The source did not know if Taiwan’s upcoming presidential elections were mentioned.

About 600 anti-China protesters — 60 of them Taiwanese waving placards and banners — could be heard clearly as they chanted slogans from a nearby park.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan Today
Date: September 24, 2015

President Ma Ying-jeou said Sept. 23 that the Lin family from Taichung City’s Wufeng

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District played a significant role in the development of Taiwan’s democracy during the early 20th century.

“Several of the Lins made invaluable contributions to defending Taiwan and promoting democracy on the island,” Ma said. “Their sacrifices serve as a salient reminder that the freedoms we enjoy today did not come easily.”

According to Ma, some of the standout members of the family are Lin Chao-Dong, who took part in the Sino-French War (1884-1885), as well as Lin Cheng-heng and Lin Tsu-mi—both staunch supporters of the revolution led by ROC Founding Father Dr. Sun Yat-sen against the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

“In particular, Lin Hsien-tang was a pre-eminent figure of the nonviolent opposition to Japanese colonial rule [1895-1945] and a pioneer of Taiwan’s democracy,” Ma said, citing his organization of the Taiwan Culture Association in 1921 and a petition establishing Taiwan Council the same year.     [FULL  STORY]