Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/06/26
By: Huang Lih-yun and Ted Chen

Taipei, June 26 (CNA) Former Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) on Thursday said that the Taipei City government has been suffering from an exodus of employees since the incumbent mayor took office.

Since last December when Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) took over as mayor, 902 Taipei City workers have either requested early retirement, sought reassignment, or have quit, Hau wrote on his Facebook page, saying that he was greatly concerned about the situation.

Addressing similar criticisms last month, however, Ko said that 486 employees had quit between January and March this year compared with 534 last year.

Ko’s six months in office have been characterized by investigations into suspected irregularities in the award of contracts for five build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects during the tenures of two former mayors, Hau and President Ma Ying-jeou.     [FULL  STORY]

Zhang Heling is the oldest graduate from Chia Nan University, Taiwan. He promised his parents that he would attain a university education. The graduate hopes to pursue a career as a full-time tour guide.

The Daily Mail
Date: 26 June 2015
By Qin Xie For Mailonline

Zhang Heling has become the oldest person to graduate from Chia Nan University,

Taiwan, 72 years after promising his parents that he would gain a university education, according to People’s Daily Online.

Mr Zhang was also awarded the ‘Senior Diligence Award’ for his hard work.

Originally from the town of Bai Ma in Jiangsu Province, China, Mr Zhang had followed his parents to Shanghai where they were in business.

Due to unrest in China, Mr Zhang moved to Taiwan alone aged 13. Before he left Shanghai, he was able to place a final call to his parents during which his mother told him, ‘Your father wants you to finish university. You’re a boy, you have to survive no matter how hard it is.’

Owing to his young age, Mr Zhang was stationed at the Tainan Air-force Base where he later worked.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/06/26
By: Chiu Chun-ching and Christie Chen

Taipei, June 26 (CNA) Japanese scientist Tasuku Honjo, who was awarded the first

Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science last year, arrived in Taiwan on Friday to share his research in cancer immunotherapy.

Professor Honjo, a pioneer in the field of cancer immunotherapy and genetic research, will give a talk at the international conference center of National Taiwan University’s College of Management on June 29.

He will share his early aspirations as a high school student and his decades of experience in immunotherapy research, according to the Tang Prize Foundation.

During his stay, Honjo will also address a convention sponsored by the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) at the Academia Sinica in Taipei.     [FULL STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-06-26
By: CNA

Personnel from 12 Taiwanese government agencies got on board the National

Immigration Agency’s (NIA) mobile unit Thursday, when it traveled to the southernmost county of Pingtung in an expansion of service to new immigrants in remote areas.

NIA deputy director Ho Jung-chun, who was onsite to check on the efficiency of the service, said the NIA mobile unit will visit Pingtung every three months to process new immigrants’ applications for resident visa extensions and to provide consultations.

Since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs joined the government mobile service last October, it has also been serving Taiwan citizens who can now submit applications for biometric passports to the mobile unit and obtain the documents on the spot the same day, Ho said.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/06/25
By: Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, June 25 (CNA) The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) announced Thursday it will loosen current regulations over in-flight use of electronic devices, including allowing passengers to use their handsets during any part of the flight as long as they are in airplane mode.

As long as Taiwanese airline companies apply for the new flight safety standards and gain approval, their passengers can use their mobile devices in airplane mode or other electronic devices that can be stored in the seat pocket throughout their flight, the CAA said.

Oversized electronic devices can be used after the aircraft is above 10,000 feet for those on international routes, while passengers on domestic flights are still forbidden from using such electronic devices for the entire duration of the flight.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-06-25
By: CNA

Deputy legislative speaker Hung Hsiu-chu, the presidential candidate for Taiwan’s

ruling Kuomintang, on Wednesday appointed a lawyer to file a criminal aggravated defamation suit against talk show host Clara Chou and the general manager, editor-in-chief and three reporters at Next Magazine Taiwan.

Yu Tzu-hsiang, Hung’s campaign spokesman, said certain media outlets have been viciously questioning Hung’s educational background, claiming that the master’s degree in Education she received from Northeast Missouri University (now Truman State University) in the United States in 1991 was fake.

Chang Szu-min, vice president of National Taiwan Sport University, joined Yu at the press conference, saying he was Hung’s classmate at the university and can vouch for her credentials.

In a statement issued later in the day, Hung said she would file a defamation suit against Windson Tsai, a TV pundit who has said repeatedly on TV talk shows that Hung’s late father was an informant to the authorities during the White Terror era in the early 1950s.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/06/25
By: T.H Kuo and Lillian Lin

Pingtung, June 25 (CNA) Personnel from 12 government agencies got on board the

National Immigration Agency’s (NIA) mobile unit Thursday, when it traveled to the southernmost county of Pingtung in an expansion of service to new immigrants in remote areas.

NIA Deputy Director Ho Jung-chun (何榮村), who was onsite to check on the efficiency of the service, said the NIA mobile unit will visit Pingtung every three months to process new immigrants’ applications for resident visa extensions and to provide consultations.

Since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs joined the government mobile service last October, it has also been serving Taiwan citizens who can now submit applications for biometric passports to the mobile unit and obtain the documents on the spot the same day, Ho said.     [FULL  STORY]