Taiwanese wife returns home with baby

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/08/31
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Mother arrives back in Taiwan from Iraq with her baby Saturday August 31. (By Central News Agency)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A Taiwanese woman returned home from Iraq Saturday (August 31) with her baby son after her Iraqi husband had been arrested there on suspicion of having murdered her parents in Taipei last April.

The man, Ali Hammad Jumaah, 31, had met the boy’s Taiwanese mother during her studies in the United States, and the family later settled in Japan. After allegations of domestic violence, her 70-year-old parents brought her and her little boy back to Taiwan.

However, last April, Jumaah suddenly showed up at their home in the Taipei City district of Shilin. Police later found the elderly couple strangled to death with a towel. The man had fled the country with the one-year-old boy and later sent a Line message to his wife telling her he had reached Iraq.

Police in a Kurdish-controlled region of northern Iraq reportedly arrested Jumaah as a murder suspect last month, and were planning to send him to the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the Liberty Times reported Saturday.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/08/31
By: William Yen

Taipei, Aug. 31 (CNA) The Filipino community called Saturday for factories in Taiwan to provide safer working environments for its workers in the wake of the recent death of a Filipina from a chemical spill this week.

The victim, identified by local media as 29-year-old Deserie Castro Tagubasi, died Wednesday at Taipei Veterans General Hospital after suffering chemical burns when a container of a mixture containing hydrofluoric acid fell and splattered against her legs.

Tagubasi was on duty at the time of the accident at her place of employment, an electronics plant in Jhunan Science Park in Miaoli operated by LED maker Tyntek Corp., according to local media.

Fidel A. Macauyag, labor attaché and director of the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Taichung, told CNA that he has faith in the Taiwanese investigators and will also follow up on their progress with the case after the victim's body has been returned to the Philippines.    [FULL  STORY]

‘NO LEAKS’: A health ministry official said that systems were back to normal quickly and no records were lost, although password management needed improving

Taiei Times
Date: Sep 01, 2019
By: Lee I-chia  /  Staff reporter

More than a dozen computer system servers at hospitals have been attacked by ransomware, the

Ministry of Health and Welfare said yesterday.

The ministry issued the statement after Chinese-language reports said that about 56 hospitals nationwide have been targeted by ransomware since Thursday, including ministry-affiliated hospitals, large regional hospitals and clinics.

Hackers used malware to block hospitals’ access to their own information system and asked them to pay in bitcoin within a certain time or face losing files, the reports said.

The reports said that the ministry had reported the cases to the Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 30 August, 2019
By: Leslie Liao

.President Tsai Ing-wen says that her years as commander-in-chief of the armed forces have brought about three big military achievements. Tsai was speaking during and Armed Forces Day award ceremony on Friday.

Tsai said that she has boosted the country’s overall defenses, advanced the domestic defense industry, and fostered both domestic morale and international support. Tsai said that the United States’ willingness to sell Taiwan M1A2 Abrams tanks and advanced F-16V fighter jets is an example of how the international community has recognized Taiwan’s commitment to staunch defense measures.

Tsai also said that her administration is doing everything it can to upgrade soldiers’ gear.
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VOA (Voice of America)
Date: August 30, 2019
By Ralph Jennings

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Taiwan’s relations with the United States have reached their strongest point ever

despite a lack of formal diplomatic ties as officials in Washington value the Asian government’s role in international causes, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said Friday.

Close ties with the United States give Taiwan military and diplomatic support that it struggles to get elsewhere because most countries recognize Beijing over Taipei. Taiwan faces a chronic military threat from nearby China.

The government of U.S. President Donald Trump, though it also maintains formal ties with Beijing instead of with Taipei, is locked in a trade dispute with China and often sends naval ships to oppose Chinese maritime expansion.    [FULL  STORY]

Total for 2019 could reach double of 2018

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/08/30
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The number of deaths caused by drunk driving is showing a sharp increase, reaching 80 percent of last year’s total in just six months, the United Evening News reported Friday (August 30).

From January through July, a total of 77 incidents caused 81 deaths, with a possible doubling of fatalities likely for 2019 compared to the previous year if the trend continues, the report said.

Over the previous three years, the death toll showed ups and downs, but no excessive falls or rises, with 102 deaths in 2016, 87 in 2017 and 100 last year, according to police data mentioned by the evening paper.

Since a tougher approach of drunk driving was launched July 1, more thorough checks were launched, but nevertheless in July this year six people died in drunk driving incidents, compared to just two in July 2018.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/08/30
By: Liu Shu-chin and Ko Lin

Taipei, Aug. 30 (CNA) Taipei has been ranked the 22nd safest city in the world, according to the 2019 Safe Cities Index released Friday which ranks 60 cities around the globe.

The report, conducted by the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit, looks at 57 qualitative and quantitative indicators spread across four categories in terms of security: digital, infrastructure, health and personal.

The SCI Index is announced every two years, the first one being published in 2015.

With an overall index of 82.50, Taipei's 2019 ranking remains unchanged from the previous edition.
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CONTROL YUAN INTERVENTION:TAUP  deputy chairman Chen Li-fu said that complaints had been filed against the professors, but NTU had yet to take corrective measures

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 31, 2019
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

Academics and legal experts yesterday asked the Control Yuan to investigate alleged breaches of

the National Languages Development Act (國家語言發展法) at National Taiwan University (NTU), after two professors instituted a rule that school meetings must be conducted in Mandarin only.

The issue had been raised repeatedly and complaints had been filed against biology professor Shih Hsiu-hui (施秀惠) and agricultural economics professor Jerome Geaun, but NTU governing officials did not take corrective measures, Taiwan Association of University Professors (TAUP) deputy chairman Chen Li-fu (陳俐甫) said.

“The two NTU professors ruled to ban the speaking of Hoklo [commonly known as Taiwanese] and all other mother tongues, and use Mandarin exclusively at meetings. It is illegal… They are bullying people who speak other mother tongues and denying them their rights,” Chen said at yesterday’s media briefing.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 29 August, 2019
By: Paula Chao

A local community in Tainan has published a story book about a 99-year-old traditional midwife. The book is a small token of the community’s appreciation to a real life traditional midwife from the area called Hsu Bao-hsiu.

At a book launch event in Danei, Tainan, many participants discovered that they have something in common – they were all delivered by the same traditional midwife.

Ninety-nine-year-old Hsu Bao-hsiu started working as a midwife when she was 21. She stayed in the line of work for over four decades. Hsu delivered an impressive number of babies in the area, making her something of a local celebrity.

The head of a community association, Tseng Chan-ping, says that in fact, Hsu delivered most of the people living in his community today, including himself.    [FULL  STORY]