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Court rules against Lee Teng-hui family in boundary dispute

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 19, 2015
By: Chin Ren-hao, Su Feng-ho and Jonathan Chin  /  Staff reporters, with staff writer

The Shilin District Court on Monday ruled that part of the mansion former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) lives in must be torn down, with the court ruling that an addition was built crossing the boundary line with an adjacent property.

The residence, which is in the Zueishan Villa (翠山莊) community, is registered in the name of Lee’s granddaughter Lee Kun-yi (李坤儀).

A lawsuit against the family was filed by Chen Hsu Chun-mei (陳許春美).     [FULL  STORY]

Swiss councilors laud CNA’s multi-language services

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/18
By: Lu Hsin-hui and Romulo Huang

Taipei, Aug. 18 (CNA) A group of 3 councilors of the Council of State of Geneva, Switzerland visited the Central News Agency Tuesday, hailing the agency’s excellent multi-language web site for offering subscribers good access to its information services.

The CNA is now offering information services in Chinese, English, Spanish and Japanese.

The Geneva state councilors were greeted by CNA Vice President Neil Lu (呂志翔) at the headquarters of Taiwan’s national news agency in Taipei.     [FULL  STORY]

PM2.5 standard to go into affect in 2016

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-08-18
By: Wei Yun-ling and Lauren Hung, Central News Agency

Taipei, Aug. 18 (CNA) The PM2.5 air quality monitoring and simulation standard has been added to the Air Pollution Control Act, and will take effect on January 1, 2016, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) said Monday. The amendment to the Air Pollution Control Act is aimed at strengthening the control of emissions of stationary sources of air pollution by the nation’s industries.

The steel industry, petrochemical industry, and electricity generation industry which are emitting a large number of particulates, volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxide, and oxysulfide in Taiwan will be the sectors primarily affected after the amendment goes into effect, the EPA said.

The term PM2.5 refers to particles 2.5 microns or smaller in diameter, which are considered particularly dangerous because they are often composed of substances like heavy metals that are very toxic and are minute enough to travel deep into human lungs.     [FULL  STORY]

Anti-vote-buying task force set up in Taipei ahead of election

Want China Times
Date: 2015-08-18
By: CNA

A joint law-enforcement task force was created in Taipei on Monday to prevent

The Taiwan Ministry of Justice's homepage. (Internet photo)

The Taiwan Ministry of Justice’s homepage. (Internet photo)

vote-buying or other illicit activities in the city during campaigning for national elections in January 2016.

The “Task Force to Investigate Election Bribery and Violence” was jointly organized by the Taipei District Prosecutors Office, the Taipei office of the Investigation Bureau under the Ministry of Justice, and the Taipei City Police Department.

Integrating police, prosecutors and officials in charge of civil service ethics, the panel will be deployed to investigate alleged vote-buying activities and protect voters and candidates from threats of violence, the Taipei District Prosecutors office said in a statement.     [FULL  STORY]

Chinese transit proposal not on agenda: MAC

Taipei Times
Date:  Aug 19, 2015
By: Stacy Hsu  /  Staff reporter

The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday said that a proposal to allow Chinese to make transit stops in Taiwan en route to other nations would not be included in the agenda of the 11th cross-strait summit to be held next week.

The council made the remarks at a Taipei news conference on the upcoming summit between the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), in Fuzhou, China, from Monday to Wednesday next week.

“We had hoped to be able to make public a consensus forged by both sides of the Taiwan Strait on the [transit stops] issue at the approaching summit. However, given that we have yet to settle on the issues of greatest concern to each side, a consensus might not be reached before the meeting,” MAC Deputy Minister Lin Chu-chia (林祖嘉) told reporters.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan plans to release white space frequency bands

DIGITIMES
Date: 17 August 2015
By: Kai-Ti Chiang, Taipei; Adam Hwang

Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) plans to release white space frequency bands which will be available for use via application rather than open-bids as early as in 2017, according to NCC.

NCC said it plans to release bands ranging from 500MHz to 600MHz with total bandwidth of about 50MHz. While five TV broadcasters each use 6MHz in the 500-600MHz spectrum to transmit VHF/UHF TV signals, there are unused bands in the spectrum available for release, NCC indicated.

White space bands can be applied to development of innovations including the Internet of Things, wearable devices, smart electric meters and smart gas meters, NCC said.

MAC to hold seminar before 11th cross-strait summit

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-08-17
By: Ko Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

A seminar will be held Tuesday morning in preparation for the upcoming Cross-Taiwan

MAC gears up for cross-strait summit. Central News Agency

MAC gears up for cross-strait summit. Central News Agency

Strait Summit, according to the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) on Monday.

The 11th summit between Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) will hopefully be held in Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province before the end of August.

MAC Deputy Minister Lin Chu-chia, Deputy Minister of Finance Chang Fan, and Directorate-General of Highways (DGH) Director-General Wu Meng-fen will preside over the seminar.

The two organizations are expected to sign a tax agreement and an aviation safety cooperation agreement, reports said.     [FULL  STORY]

Agencies blasted for dereliction of duty on tobacco factory project

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/08/17
By: Lu Hsin-huei and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Aug. 17 (CNA) A group of anti-tobacco activists filed a complaint with the Control 201508170032t0001Yuan on Monday, accusing three Cabinet agencies of dereliction of duty and legal violations after allowing an international tobacco producer to build a factory in Taiwan.

John Tung Foundation Chief Executive Officer Yau Sea-wain (姚思遠), Consumers’ Foundation Vice Chairman Yu Kai-hsiung (游開雄), and two celebrity volunteers filed the accusation against the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Health Promotion Administration.

The activists called on the Control Yuan to stop the construction of a planned factory by Japan Tobacco International (JTI) in the Tainan Technology Industrial Park in southern Taiwan.     [FULL  STORY]

Taitung authorities express concerns over spread of rabies

Want China Times
Date: 2015-08-17
By: CNA

Animal disease control officials in eastern Taiwan’s Taitung county have expressed

A dog is vaccinated against rabies at the Taipei Pets Show in Taipei, July 11. (File photo/Chen yu-sheng)

A dog is vaccinated against rabies at the Taipei Pets Show in Taipei, July 11. (File photo/Chen yu-sheng)

concern that rabies may have spread after the township of Taimali reported its first rabies case.

After an outbreak of rabies in the county in 2013 — the first resurfacing of the disease in Taiwan since 1961 — only townships in the mountains or on the coast first reported cases, chiefly in ferret-badgers, after which the disease spread to Taitung city and surrounding valleys.

Wu Tze-he, director of Taitung’s Animal Disease Control Center, said that apart from Taitung county’s offshore islands, all townships that have sent samples for examination have confirmed rabies cases.

So far, only two townships — Tawu and Chinfeng — have not sent specimens, but Wu suspected that the disease could have made its way to them as well.     [FULL  STORY]

Prosecutors drop charges in flag defamation case

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 18, 2015
By: Hsieh Chun-lin and Jake Chung  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

Citing insufficient evidence, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday said it has dropped charges of theft, damaging and insulting the national flag against four individuals who were accused of having destroyed 74 national flags along Aiguo W Road in Taipei on Double Ten National Day last year.

According to a prosecutors’ investigation, Chou Shih-lun (周世倫), known for directing a documentary on the Sunflower movement, Hsiao Chang-chan (蕭長展), a member of The Village Armed Youths band, and two other individuals — surnamed Hu (胡) and Lu (呂) — allegedly launched an “art event” on Oct. 9 last year to raise public awareness on the restrictions the national flag faced at international events.

Police were later informed that 74 flags along Aigwo W Road between Boai Road and Zhonghua Road Sec 1 had been slashed or damaged about 2am on Oct 9.     [FULL  STORY]