In "Form Of Foods", Max Chang Min will have his eyes wide open with the new combination of chicken.

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Date: 2019. 11. 30​

The show "Form Of Foods" (working title, general channel JTBC), a blockbuster show about food with a new format, will broadcast its first episode at 11 pm (KST) December 1. In this first episode, fried chicken will appear as a kind of food to help audiences get to know the secrets of Korean cuisine. Thus, the cast of the show will comprehensively "dissect" fried chicken – the representative food of the US, after it was introduced into Korea.

​Max Changmin and Baek Jong Won will together perform the mission of collecting all special kinds of chicken in New York City. During about 8 hours wandering many places in New York to find chicken, both were exposed to the "chicken culture" of Taiwanese cuisine when enjoying chicken with bubble tea.

In particular, Max Changmin surprised and asked again, "Drink this with fried chicken, right?" and could not utter a word with this unbelievable "weird" food combination. Therefore, the audience is curious about whether the male idol can be "enchanted" by this combination of fried chicken and Taiwanese bubble tea.

​Additionally, the audience is expecting the artists to taste many types of chicken dishes from American-style chicken nuggets, South American-style chicken mixed with spices and tortilla, to Korean-style chicken with an appealing salty and sweet flavor as well as looking forward to their interesting conversation at the dining table.​    [FULL  STORY]

DPP calls for calm and reasonable behavior

Taiwan News
Date: .2019/11/30
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Police in Tainan nabbed a middle-aged man suspected of having thrown eggs at a billboard of President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) and her vice-presidential running mate Premier William Lai (賴清德) early Saturday (November 30) morning.

The incident happened at the Tainan City election headquarters of the Tsai campaign, though the offices were not scheduled to start operations until December 14, the Central News Agency reported.

A man had been seen throwing eggs at the effigy of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential ticket around 2 a.m. Saturday. Party representatives reported the incident to the police, and by watching surveillance cameras, officers concluded the suspect was a local 42-year-old man named Cheng (鄭).

They went to his home and arrested him around 4 p.m., reports said. He had taken two or three eggs from home in order to “express a couple of things,” police quoted him as saying.
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Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/11/30
By: Elaine Hou and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, Nov. 30 (CNA) Filip Grzegorzewski, the new chief of the European Economic and Trade Office

(EETO) in Taiwan, said his top priorities will be to make the European Union more visible in Taiwan and encourage more Taiwanese investment in the EU.

Grzegorzewski, who took office in September, told CNA in a recent interview that he hopes to increase the profile of the EU in Taiwan, particularly to further introduce Europe as an excellent investment destination.

"I would like to promote Europe as a good place for Taiwanese investors to bring Taiwan and Europe closer," he said.

Such a task is important because compared with European investment in Taiwan, Taiwanese invests relatively little in Europe, Grzegorzewski said.    [FULL  STORY]

DELIVERING A MESSAGE: Union members contended that employees hired before the reorganization of the post office receive higher subsidies than those hired later

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 01, 2019
By: Chen Wei-chi  /  Staff reporter

Taiwan Postal Workers’ Union members are to march in Taipei today over what they say are

unequal subsidies between employees hired before Chunghwa Post’s reorganization 16 years ago and those who joined later.

As of yesterday, more than 2,200 people had signed the union’s online petition demanding equal subsidies for the same work, the union said, adding that more than 500 post office staff members nationwide would take part in the rally today, marching from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to the Control Yuan and the Executive Yuan.

When Chunghwa Post was reorganized into a government-owned corporation in 2003, civil servants employed at the post office were deemed “transferred personnel,” while those that were hired after the change were considered “hierarchical personnel,” the union said.

Currently, the postal service employees about 11,000 transferred personnel and 14,000 hierarchical personnel, it added.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 29 November, 2019
By: Shirley Lin

Elementary school students perform ballroom dance[/caption]Elementary school students perform ballroom dance[/caption] After 14 years on the air, a children’s television program produced by the education ministry and Public Television is still getting rave reviews. The show is now getting ready for the start of a new season.

One new episode of a popular Taiwanese children’s program shows a group of children from Taipei’s Dong Men Elementary School performing ballroom dance. The kids say they gained confidence after learning the dance style.

Another episode shows a rock band made up of students from New Taipei’s Mudan Elementary School performing a medley of cartoon theme songs. The children get a hands-on introduction to music, learning everything from the violin to the electric guitar.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan English News
Date:} November 29, 2019 
By: Phillip Charlier

Police arrested a man in Taichung City yesterday found to be in possession of a Beretta pistol loaded with dumdum bullets, and a revolving shotgun, in the latest of a series of raids that has seen 56 firearms confiscated, and dozens of people arrested.

Police officers from Taoyuan City’s Pingzhen Branch had long been attempting to track a 50-year-old man named Zheng, who was suspected of being part of a gun trading syndicate. Zheng was of no fixed abode and constantly on the move. Yesterday, November 28, police were informed that Zheng was staying at a motel in Xitun District, Taichung City.

A police team swooped on the motel and broke down the door to Zheng’s room, immediately restraining him before he could reach for a weapon.

In Zheng’s bag, police found a Beretta pistol loaded with expanding (dumdum) bullets, and a revolving shotgun with 10 shotgun shells.    [FULL  STORY]

Former Foxconn founder spokeswoman calls for strong opposition if president is re-elected

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/11/29
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – An absolute majority for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the

new Legislative Yuan would be "a nightmare within a nightmare," the Foxconn Technology founder’s spokeswoman and People First Party (PFP) legislative candidate Amanda Liu (劉宥彤) said Friday (November 29).

Liu is one of the at-large candidates supported by Foxconn founder Terry Gou (郭台銘), and she features on the PFP list, which backs its chairman, James Soong (宋楚瑜) in the January 11, 2020 elections.

Speaking on a radio show Friday morning, Liu said that even if President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) was re-elected, as most opinion polls indicated, it would be better for her DPP not to hold on to its present absolute majority in the 113-seat Legislative Yuan.

She said that situations which occurred over the past four years, such as the conflict over pension reform, would happen again if the DPP maintained control of the legislature, the Central News Agency reported.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/11/29
By: Flor Wang and Elaine Hou

Taipei, Nov. 29 (CNA) A group of indigenous Tao people and anti-nuclear activists protested in front of the Executive Yuan Friday, demanding that the government move its nuclear waste storage facility off Orchid Island.

The protesters also rebuffed a government offer of NT$2.55 billion (US$83.6 million) in compensation to residents of the island.

They chanted slogans demanding the relocation of the facility away from the island off Taitung County that is home to the Tao people, also known as the Yami, and made it clear that they will never give up that goal, accusing the government of trying to buy them off ahead of major elections.

Speaking in his mother tongue in a news conference, Capen Nganaen, a Tao tribal elder and a policy adviser to President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), said through an interpreter that he accepted the post with the hope of holding more in-depth dialogue with the government.    [FULL  STORY]

​DANGER LOOMS: A DPP legislator said that more than 40 percent of local culture authorities nationwide have not yet submitted a required accident emergency planTaipei Times

Taipei Times
Date: Nov 30, 2019
By: Chung Li-hua and Dennis Xie  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

More than 1,000 cultural heritage sites nationwide do not have an accident emergency plan in

place, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Ho Chih-wei (何志偉) said yesterday, urging government agencies to protect the nation’s cultural assets.

Of the nation’s 2,442 sites, 1,008 need a “natural accident prevention and emergency plan,” as required by the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act (文化資產保存法) and Standard Operating Procedures of Disaster Prevention and Rescue for the Historical Buildings (古蹟及歷史建築消防救災處理原則), which state that authorities must submit a plan to local fire departments, Ho told a news conference in Taipei.

However, 41 percent of local culture authorities nationwide have not yet submitted a plan, he said, adding that 80 to 90 percent of relevant authorities have not done so in the top five ranking areas: Hsinchu, Kinmen and Yunlin counties, and Kaohsiung and Keelung.

In November 2013, Cingshan Temple (青山宮) in Taipei’s Wanhua District (萬華) was damaged in a fire, in which structures and flower and deity sculptures were partly destroyed, Ho said.
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Radio Taiwan International
Date: 27 November, 2019
By: Jake Chen

President Tsai Ing-wen says she looks forward to more exchanges between Taiwan and the United States in the field of veterans’ affairs.

Tsai was speaking on Wednesday during a meeting with James Oxford, the national commander of US veterans’ organization the American Legion.    [FULL  STORY]