Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/23
By: Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Aug. 23 (CNA) A new fellowship established with funds donated by Yu Ying-shih,

the recipient of the first-ever Tang Prize in Sinology and a professor emeritus of Chinese studies of Princeton University, has begun accepting applications.

Yu donated his NT$10 million cash prize from the Tang Prize to the establishment of the “Yu Ying-shih Fellowship for the Humanities” to support promising researchers and scholars in the humanities fields with the financial assistance needed to complete dissertations and other academic works, according to the Tang Prize Education Foundation.

The focus of the fellowship is research on various fields of humanities and sinology, including history, linguistics, archaeology, philosophy, religion, classical studies, literary studies, and the arts.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-08-23
By: CNA and Staff Reporter

The chair of Taiwan’s minority New Party, Yok Mu-ming, called on party members

Saturday to support the ruling Kuomintang in the legislative elections in January in the hope that the alliance would prevent the opposition Democratic Progressive Party from gaining a majority.

On the 22nd anniversary of the party’s founding, Yok outlined the New Party’s strategy of putting its weight behind the KMT and encouraging tactical voting for the ruling party, with whom the New Party is broadly aligned.

For the legislative election, Taiwan has a single-district, two-vote system. Voters usually cast one ballot for a district member and another for a political party. Of the 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan, 73 are district members elected from special municipalities, counties and cities; six are elected from among indigenous groups; and 34 seats are allotted to legislators-at-large whose election depends on the vote for political parties.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-08-22
By: Jocylin FC, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Environmental awareness is something which everyone should possess. However, this is

not the case in Lamay Island. Over the years, the ecosystems in many beaches are affected by the increase in human activities. Some tourists leave more than their footprints on the beach by taking a bottle of seashells and shell sand home.

As the weather worsens, the transportation from Taiwan to Lamay Island has been suspended, yet at the same time, the locals spotted a tourist who carried a bottle of seashells and shell sand. They informed the government authorities to handle the situation but they did not do anything about it. The tourist left with the bottle of sea shells.

Many tourists often take souvenirs from the local environment. When caught by the locals and guides, some tourists would say, “Why can’t I bring it home?” It shows many citizens lack environmental awareness; they do not understand they are destroying the local environment.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/22
By: Y.F. Low

Taipei, Aug. 22 (CNA) A Taiwan film festival and Taiwanese food fair opened at the Sylvia Park shopping center in the Auckland suburb of Mount Wellington in New Zealand Friday, according to a statement released by Taiwan’s representative office in Auckland.

The events, jointly organized by the Taiwanese Business Association of New Zealand and Taiwanese Junior Business Association New Zealand, are a lead up to the Republic of China National Day celebrations, the office said.

The films that are being screened at the festival include “Everlasting Glory (英烈千秋),” “Good Luck! Boy (加油！男孩)” and “The Frogville (桃蛙源記).”     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-08-21
By: CNA

The nonprofit organization, United Way of Taiwan (UWT), kicked off its annual

fundraising event “One-day Salary Donation” on Thursday to help improve the lives of the disadvantaged and promote social equality.

Chu Tzu-pi, secretary general of UWT, said that since it began in 1992, this campaign has brought a glimmer of hope to more than 1 million underprivileged and over 800,000 disadvantaged families each year.

The general fundraising effort in the first half of the year did not meet expectations due to slow economic growth and donations being channeled to victims of major disasters, which led to a contraction of UWT’s resources, according to Huang Chiu-ping, deputy director of the organization.     [FULL  STORY]