Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/11/13
By: Yu Hsiang and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, Nov. 13 (CNA) The main opposition Kuomintang announced its nominees for at-large

legislative seats Wednesday, with former Central Police University Professor Yeh Yu-lan (葉毓蘭) topping the list of 34 names.

The second name on the list was KMT legislative caucus whip and former Financial Supervisory Commission Chairman Tseng Ming-chung (曾銘宗), while KMT Chairman Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) was listed in 10th place, former lawmaker Chiu Yi (邱毅) eighth, and KMT Tainan chapter director Hsieh Lung-chieh (謝龍介) 11th.

Also in the top 10 were former lawmaker Lee Kuei-min (李貴敏); retired Lt. Gen. Wu Sz-huai (吳斯懷); former lawmaker Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文); Lin Wen-jui (林文瑞), the head of Taiwan Joint Irrigation Association, ROC; Li Yu-chan (李玉嬋), a professor at National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science; and head of the KMT Pingtung County chapter, Liao Wan-ju (廖婉汝).

Other nominees included former KMT lawmaker Wong Chung-chun (翁重鈞), former Presidential Office spokesman Charles Chen (陳以信), Central Standing Committee member Lee Teh-wei (李德維) and Taiwan Labor Welfare Alliance convener Wang Yu-wen (王裕文).    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 12 November, 2019
By: Natalie Tso

A Malaysian student in Taiwan recently released Timelapse Taiwan, an amazing depiction of breathtaking scenery throughout Taiwan. Timelapse photographer Feng Yeh-hui spent four years trekking over 100,000 kilometers to produce this love letter to Taiwan before he left the country.

This is the sunrise at Hehuan Mountain…and the night sky, all captured by photographer, Malaysian student Feng Yeh-hui. 

While studying in Taiwan, Feng spent the past 4 years capturing Taiwan’s most beautiful scenery through time-lapse photography. "Before I leave Taiwan, I wanted to give something to Taiwan," Feng said. "I hope these works don’t just receive a lot of attention but rather leave a lasting impression on Taiwan’s people."

This is another beautiful sunrise Feng captured above fields of Asian knotweed in Nantou County and this is an amazing shot of the indigenous Talampo village in Hualien’s Fuli Township and a sea of cosmos in Taichung.    [FULL  STORY]

Frame
November 12, 2019

As the Frame Awards 2020 submission period has come to a close, we have many thanks to give – 1,070, to be exact. We’ve received over 1,000 projects from an unprecedented 50+ countries: designers and studios from Kuwait, Israel, Chile, Kosovo, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Egypt, Dubai, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malaysia, Russia, Turkey, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Angola, Australia, Mexico, France, Spain, Brazil, Canada, and the United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands, amongst elsewhere, are represented in the Frame Awards community.

Our team is now comprehensively poring over each and every one of the spaces submitted to the 36 individual categories making up the four main – Spatial, Executional, Societal and Honorary. Together, the categories aim to holistically acknowledge the world's best retail, hospitality, residential, institutional, work and show interiors. The resulting longlist is to be announced 21 November 2019. After, we pass the baton to industry leaders who will vote on the projects that will comprise the shortlist; that reveal will take place on 12 December 2019. Both the longlist and shortlist will be a valuable overview of the most inspiring and innovative spatial design today.
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Canadian flying in from Toronto busted with 30 kg of pot at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/11/12
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Canadian man was arrested late last month while trying to smuggle in excess of NT$100 million (US$3.2 million) worth of marijuana through Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE).

Since Canada legalized marijuana in 2018, customs officers at TPE have seized marijuana smuggled by drug trafficking groups from Canada on several occasions. As a result, drug enforcement units have begun to strengthen their investigation of this new drug transportation pipeline.

According to the Aviation Police Bureau, customs officers at 5 a.m. on Oct. 30 scanned two suitcases from Toronto, Canada, through an X-ray machine at Terminal 2 and tagged them as suspicious, reported Liberty Times. When their Canadian owner picked up his bags and walked towards customs, he was stopped by officers, who asked him to open the suitcases.

In addition to a few items of clothing, officers discovered 30 vacuum-sealed packs, each containing 1.054 kilograms (kg) of marijuana buds for a total of 31,629 kg, reported China Times. The market price for marijuana in Taiwan is approximately NT$1,500 to NT$2,000 per gram, while marijuana buds are worth three to five times that price.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/11/12
By: Ku Chuan, Lin Chang-shun and Chiang Yi-ching

Taipei, Nov. 12 (CNA) The Retired Police Officers Association launched a protest Tuesday over a court ruling that requires the state to pay compensation to 10 people who were injured during the 2014 Sunflower Movement protests.

The Taipei District Court ruled in October that the city's Police Department must pay NT$1.11 million (US$36,174) in total damages to 10 protesters, who suffered serious injuries when police forcibly removed them from the Executive Yuan complex during the 2014 demonstrations.

In a statement released Monday, the association said the ruling was politically motivated and unacceptable.

Those who broke the law have been raised above those authorized to enforce it, the association said.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan Internatinal
Date: 11 November, 2019
By: Leslie Liao
 

Norwegian triathlete Gustav Iden visited Changhua County over the weekend at the invitation of county Norwegian triathlete Gustav Iden (Source: Iden’s Instagram)Magistrate Wang Hui-mei. Iden soared to fame in Taiwan back in September when he was spotted wearing a hat from the county during a big win.

Gustav Iden became an overnight star in Taiwan when he became the Ironman 70.3 world champion. When he crossed the finish line back in September, he was spotted wearing a hat bearing the name of a temple in central Taiwan’s Changhua County.

No, Iden didn’t have a sponsorship deal. In fact, that he found the hat at all was a matter of pure coincidence. Someone had dropped the hat on a street in Japan, and that’s where Iden found it.    [FULL  STORY]

Deer appears to be victim of wildfire in Taichung, Taiwan

Taiwan News
Date: 12019/11/11
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — After a wildfire struck Taichung City on Sunday, local residents on Monday (Nov. 11) discovered the carcass of a deer, suspecting it had fallen victim to the blaze.

At 2:20 p.m. on Sunday, the Taichung City Fire Bureau received a report about a brush fire near an electric tower in the city's Longjing District. The fire was visible to motorists driving past the 185-kilometer mark on National Freeway No. 3.

The fire department dispatched over 100 firefighters to the scene. Due to strong winds, the blaze continued to spread and burn throughout the day, and it was not until 2:51 a.m. on Monday morning that firefighters were able to fully extinguish the fire, reported UDN.

Later that day, a netizen posted photos of a deer carcass they had discovered at the scene of the fire in a ditch on Nanliao Footpath. In the photos, the deer's legs are bloody, and the report said this was possibly caused by severe burns or taking a precipitous fall.    [FULL  STORY]