Radio Taiwan International
Date: 04 July, 2019
By: Shirley Lin

The Taiwan Nurses Association has shed light on an unfriendly move by China at the recently-concluded congress of the International Council of Nurses in Singapore.

A Chinese representative at the closing ceremony tried to flip over the name card of one of Taiwan’s representatives. The name tag had a sticker of Taiwan’s national flag on it.
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New rules approved by the Legislative Yuan could declassify Lin Yi-hsiung and Chen Wen-chen files

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/07/04
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Former DPP Chairman Lin Yi-hsiung at a commemorative event for his murdered relatives. (By Central News Agency)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Files about suspected political murders during the Kuomintang’s (KMT) Martial Law era might be declassified, following the approval of new regulations by the Legislative Yuan Thursday (July 4).

The National Security Bureau recently announced that it would slap a permanent confidentiality order on certain key files surrounding prominent cases, provoking a stream of protest from human rights activists.

According to the new measures, only the agreement of the National Security Council could allow such files to stay secret forever, the Central News Agency reported.

Just on Tuesday (July 2), activists marked the 38th anniversary of the death of U.S.-based mathematics professor Chen Wen-chen (陳文成), a supporter of democracy who was picked up by police and found dead on the campus of National Taiwan University the following day.

Another prominent case likely to be affected by the new regulations was the murder of then-political prisoner Lin Yi-hsiung’s (林義雄) mother and two daughters on February 28, 1980. Just like in the Chen case, the murderer was never found, while the KMT government denied any involvement.
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Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/07/04
By: Yu Hsiang, Wang Yang-yu and Emerson Lim

Taipei, July 4 (CNA) A bill aimed at declassifying and archiving political files kept by Taiwan's government agencies and political parties during its period of authoritarian rule, cleared the Legislature on Thursday.

According to the bill, now an act, "political files" referred to documents related to the 228 Incident, the period of national mobilization for suppression of the communist rebellion and the period of martial law rule kept by government agencies, political parties and their attached agencies from Aug. 15, 1945 to Nov. 6, 1992, which is defined as the authoritarian period in Taiwan, based on the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice.

By unsealing historical records and revealing historical truths, the government hopes to advance social reconciliation, the Transitional Justice Commission said in a press statement Thursday.

Concerned government agencies should complete t

he inventory of political files within six months after its implementation begins, and turn the files into national archives, according to the Act.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 03 July, 2019
By: John Van Trieste

Transportation Minister Lin Chia-lung says he hopes a strike by flight attendants at Taiwan’s EVA Air

will come to a close soon.

Transportation Minister Lin Chia-lung says he hopes a strike by flight attendants at Taiwan’s EVA Air will come to a close soon.

Though flight attendants and airline management reached an understanding on certain issues during a ten-hour meeting Tuesday, the strike is continuing. The two sides have yet to set a time for any further meetings.
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Taiwan Today
Date: July 03, 2019

President Tsai Ing-wen said July 2 that Taiwan and Belize are working hand in hand to deepen exchanges and friendship in the 30th year of bilateral ties.
 
Taiwan and the Central American ally are true friends and partners in prosperity, Tsai said. This is reflected by greater cooperation in areas such as education and training, health care, and investment and trade, she added.
 
Tsai made the remarks while meeting with Belize Governor-General Colville Young at the Presidential Office July 2 in Taipei City. The representative of Queen Elizabeth II is visiting Taiwan July 2-5 along with Minister of Legal Affairs Michael Peyrefitte and other officials from the Commonwealth nation.
 
According to Tsai, the presence of Young and his delegation underscores the robust health of the Taiwan-Belize relationship as the countries prepare to celebrate three decades of official ties in October.    [FULL  STORY]

Commitment comes in response to China’s exclusionary tactics

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/07/03
By: Taiwan News

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — U.S. State Department official Jonathan Moore stated his wish for Taiwan to join more international organizations in the face of continued pressure from China.

Moore was speaking at Cross-Strait Relations: Present Challenges and Future Developments. The event was jointly held yesterday (July 2) by the Heritage Foundation and the Prospect Foundation.

Moore addressed the issue of Taiwan not being permitted to join numerous international organizations, calling for Taiwan’s inclusion in both the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and INTERPOL. In addition, he reaffirmed the U.S.’s desire for Taiwan to join international organizations regardless of whether statehood is a requirement for membership, says the State Department report.

Moore was critical of China’s bullying stance toward Taiwan, stating that its actions would not win over the Taiwanese people and would only serve to create further tension. He went on to say that the U.S. supports a continuation of the current status of cross-strait relations and rejects any military action against the island nation, calling on China to end its hostility.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/07/03
By: Yeh Su-ping and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, July 3 (CNA) The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) warned Wednesday that Taiwan is

facing a threat from China regarding technology, including theft of intellectual property and personal data, and security breaches in various sectors from agriculture, technology and commerce.

The party issued the alert at its weekly policymaking Central Standing Committee meeting after Chiang Ya-chi (江雅綺), an associate professor in intellectual property at the National Taipei University of Technology, delivered a report on technological attacks and theft there.

DPP acting Chairman Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) commented that as new technologies continue to be produced, they also bring to the world "asymmetric technological wars."

He was referring to the different types of technological penetration and threats from China, such as the spread of fake news or implanting of back-door software that allows theft of information related to the everyday lives of people in Taiwan, DPP spokesperson Lee Ming-li (李明俐) cited Ker as saying.    [FULL  STORY]

GOVERNMENT FUNDING: Part of the money for the NTHU project came from the Academia-Industry Research Alliance project, which was launched in 2017

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 04, 2019
By: Lin Chia-nan  /  Staff reporter

A team of National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) researchers yesterday shared their findings on a

microchip system for neurological disorders, saying it might help people with Parkinson’s disease.

The system is one of the projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology under its Academia-Industry Research Alliance project launched in 2017.

Deep brain stimulators are one of the options for treating Parkinson’s disease with electrical stimuli, but the surgery to place a stimulator in a patient’s brain can be difficult and dangerous, Chen Hsin (陳新), a professor in the university’s department of electrical engineering, told a news conference at the ministry in Taipei.

Chen said he became interested in seeking solutions for Parkinson’s treatment after seeing what a family member who has the disease has gone through.    [FULL  STORY]