shanghaiist
Date: Jul 22, 2015
By: Katie Nelson

A wealthy Shanghai university student who suffered injuries in last month’s Taipei water park

blaze has offered to donate 300,000 yuan towards the recovery of a fellow burn victim staying in her hospital.

Eighteen-year-old Teresa Yip, who sustained burns over nearly 40 percent of her body in the Color Play Asia “party powder” explosion, was transferred to the Shanghai Ruijin Hospital on June 30 at the request of her parents, who live and work in the city.

Also staying in the hospital is 25-year-old Wang Haibin, who made headlines last month after helping to evacuate his neighbors during a fire at his residential building, resulting in severe burns over 88 percent of his body.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-07-22
By: Central News Agency

The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) is still in discussions with several agencies on

MOHW mulling change in ban on some food from Japan. Central News Agency (2015-07-22 13:05:18)

whether to lift a ban on food imports from regions in Japan affected by a nuclear meltdown in 2011, a Cabinet spokesman said Wednesday.

Responding to a report Tuesday that Taiwan will partially lift a ban on food imports from the restricted areas, spokesman Sun Lih-chyun (孫立群) said that no timetable has been set for resolving the matter and that the decision will be up to the MOHW.

The Food and Drug Administration under the MOHW said the ministry is still communicating with organizations in Taiwan and Japan and indicated that no decision has been made yet.

According to the United Daily News, Taiwan is expected to lift a ban on food imports from Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma and Chiba prefectures while the ban on food items from Fukushima prefecture will remain in place.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/22
By: P.N. Lung and Lillian Lin

Taipei, July 22 (CNA) Cancer patients who lose a lot of weight rapidly may die as a result, according to a survey conducted by the Taiwan Clinical Oncology Society.

The survey, which was conducted among 202 selected cancer patients being monitored by doctors, found that 59 percent of the patients had a weight loss problem and 77 percent had eating problems. In cases of patients who had suffered a drastic loss in weight, 20 percent had died, according to the survey.

Citing the survey, Dr. Kao Shang-jyh (高尚志), chairman of the medical society, said at a press conference Wednesday that in the process of chemotherapy, 77 percent of cancer patients lose their appetite or vomit their food, and 78 lose weight after three months.

He said patients with gastric, pancreatic or lung cancer are most likely to suffer severe weight loss, which could lead to death.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-07-22
By: CNA

Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang spokesman said Tuesday that the party has returned over 90% of

Lin Yi-hua speaks in Taipei, Feb. 7. (File photo/Chen Hsin-han)

its allegedly “illicit property”–totaling 219 assets–to the rightful owners, with the remaining 10 percent to be “finished off” by the end of this month.

Lin Yi-hua, director of the party’s Culture and Communications Committee, said the remaining 10 controversial assets will all have been given back to their legitimate owners by July 31, as the party is determined to end the controversy once and for all.

Lin said seven of the 10 problem assets have already been handed back to the rightful owners, with the remaining three scheduled to change hands before the end of the month.

He said the KMT has been handling the issue in accordance with Control Yuan member Huang Huang-hsiung’s April, 2001 investigative report and the Executive Yuan’s 2006 report on KMT assets–conclusive reports made when the opposition Democratic Progressive Party was the country’s ruling party.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/21
By: H.H. Lu and Lillian Lin

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) The Ministry of National Defense announced Tuesday that despite the fact that China’s military buildup has led to a shift of the Taiwan-China military balance in Beijing’s favor, the Republic of China armed forces are continuing to reinforce the country’s self-defense strength to ward off any enemy attempts.

The ministry was responding to Japan’s recently released 2015 defense white paper, which states that “China has been continuing activities seen as high-handed to alter the status quo by force and has attempted to support its unilateral claims without making compromises.” It suggested that “these activities could trigger contingencies.”     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Editorial
Date: 2015-07-21

Former Taiwanese legislator Shen Fu-hsiung of the major opposition Democratic Progressive

Hung Hsiu-chu visits a local market in Kaohsiung, July 15. (File photo/CNA)

Party (DPP) commented on Kuomintang (KMT) presidential hopeful Hung Hsiu-chu’s stance on China in a recent op-ed piece, stating that “Beijing may have come to realize that it cannot depend on the ruling Kuomintang to maintain the situation in Taiwan.”

Shen concluded that Beijing conceding to Hung’s call for recognition of the Republic of China in Taiwan is what Want Daily has been advocating for, since it will help prevent anti-China sentiment from spreading further in Taiwan.

Beijing has refrained from responding to the “one China, same interpretation” version of the “1992 consensus” proposed by Hung May 1, when she was running in the KMT presidential primary and this is likely because its actions during previous Taiwanese elections have backfired.

There would not be such counter effects if Beijing were simply to recognize the ROC’s existence, without siding with a particular party or candidate.     [FULL  STORY]