Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-09-21

The Ministry of Health and Welfare on Thursday gave details of its efforts to play a

The Ministry of Health and Welfare on Thursday gave details of its efforts to play a role in international health issues over the past few months. (CNA file photo)

role in international health issues over the past few months. That’s after Taiwan was denied the opportunity to attend the annual assembly of the World Health Organization this year due to pressure from China.

The ministry said a delegation made visits to Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia in August. That month, deputy health minister Ho Chi-kung led a team to Vietnam to attend a High-Level Meeting on Health and the Economy under the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) framework. He was able to hold meetings with health ministers from a number of countries, including the US health secretary, Tom Price.

Ho was also invited to take part in a forum in Malaysia organized by the British Medical Journal.    [FULL  STORY]

The Atomic Energy Council also said that the natural radioactivity contained in the salt substitutes would do no harm to the human body.

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/21
By: Teng Pei-ju, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiyen Biotech (台鹽生技) responded to the accusation made

Taiwan’s legislator said Taiyen’s salt substitutes contain high levels of radiation. (Source: CNA)

by Taiwan’s legislator Kao Chin Su-mei (高金素梅) at a news conference Thursday that three of the salt substitutes manufactured by the company contain high levels of radiation by quoting the statement of the country’s Atomic Energy Council (AEC，原能會) that the products’ containing natural radioactivity would do no harm to the human body but it also said it would send the ingredient of the salt substitutes, potassium chloride, for an assay.

Kao Chin said the report issued by the AEC’s Radiation Monitoring Center earlier in September discovered that among 18 samplings of edible salts that were tested, Taiyen’s three salt substitutes, Dietary Salt, Delicious Salt, and Natural Flavor Salt, contain high doses of Potassium-40 – 8,860 becquerel/kilometer (Bq/Kg), 5,063 Bq/Kg, and 5,063 Bq/Kg respectively – compared to other salt products sold in the domestic or global market.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/21
By: Joseph Yeh

Taipei, Sept. 21 (CNA) A scramble of fighter jets late Wednesday was part of a night drill involving all three main branches of the armed forces against a possible enemy invasion, the Ministry of National Defense (MND) said Thursday.

The MND statement was released following a local media report that members of the public noticed fighter jets flying overhead islandwide. Some also saw armored vehicles on the streets, according to the United Daily News.

Some feared the maneuvers could be a response measure against possible Chinese fighter jets invading Taiwanese airspace, as several types of Chinese military aircraft have been reported flying close to the nation’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the past few months, the report said.    [FULL STORY]

The China Post
Date: September 21, 2017
By: The China Post

It happens to all of us. Your friend sends a group text message to everyone but just seems to have forgotten you. But what if you are left out of a group message sent to the entire nation?

It happens to all of us. Your friend sends a group text message to everyone but just seems to have forgotten you.

But what if you are left out of a group message sent to the nation?

You feel like “national outsider”, according to one who complained of not getting such a group SMS on President Tsai Ing-wen’s Facebook. The comment was a response to the president’s question — “Have you received the disaster prevention SMS?” — that started her post about the Sept. 21 National Disaster Prevention Day set to coincide with the anniversary of the 1999 Earthquake.

Tsai said the disaster prevention drill SMS was sent to every user of a 4G cellphone in Taiwan by the Central Weather Bureau at 9:21 a.m. All cable TVs in Taiwan main island were switched to the Public Television Channel 13 at 9:59 a.m. when a 2-minute drill video was broadcast. Her post ended with the hashtags “921 National Prevention Day” and “the nation will not forget you” in Chinese.   [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-09-20

The foreign ministry reports that five Taiwanese nationals are trapped in a collapsed

Five Taiwanese nationals are trapped beneath the rubble of this collapsed building in Mexico City. Much of central Mexico was hit by a 7.1 earthquake on Tuesday. (Photo Courtesy Oficina Económica y Cultural de Taipei en México) (CNA)

building in Mexico City after a 7.1 earthquake on Tuesday.

Taiwan’s representative office in Mexico has sent consular staff to the scene, where Mexican rescue teams continue to work.

Taiwan has offered to dispatch teams to help with the search and recovery effort. On Wednesday, Cabinet spokesperson Hsu Kuo-yung said that Taiwan is prepared to send rescue personnel and dogs if Mexico asks for assistance.

Meanwhile, the Overseas Community Affairs Council says it began emergency contact procedures after the earthquake to check on the safety of Taiwanese nationals in Mexico. The council also said that Taiwanese businesses in Mexico that suffered damage in Tuesday’s earthquake can apply for loans from its overseas fund.
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Kaohsiung City Police Department Commissioner Chen Chia-chin (陳家欽), who has been appointed as the new director-general of the National Police Agency (NPA), said he is confident that he can take up the challenge.

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/09/20
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Kaohsiung City Police Department Commissioner Chen Chia-

Kaohsiung City Police Department Commissioner Chen Chia-chin (陳家欽) has been appointed as the new director-general of the National Police Agency. (By Central News Agency)

chin (陳家欽), who has been appointed as the new director-general of the National Police Agency (NPA), said he is confident that he can take up the challenge.
Chen said he has never felt cheerful after being notified of the appointment because he has been thinking about the greater responsibility and more pressure the new job entrails.

He said that taking over as NPA head has not been part of his career plan. Police are a big team, and the NPA will cooperate more closely with local police departments and stations to give the public a safer living environment and more peace of mind, he said.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/20
By: Christie Chen

Taipei, Sept. 20 (CNA) The father and sister of deceased Vietnamese migrant worker

Nguyen Quoc Dong (right)

Nguyen Quoc Phi were among those who rallied in front of the Presidential Office on Wednesday to seek justice for the worker, who was shot and killed by police in Taiwan last month.

The latest rally was organized by the Migrant Empowerment Network in Taiwan (MENT) and other rights groups following the recent release of ambulance videos showing that police and paramedics delayed treating Nguyen after he was shot nine times.

“Whether my brother was at fault or not, the police should not have shot him nine times,” said Nguyen’s 26-year-old younger sister, Nguyen Thi Thao, who held a photo of her brother.    [FULL  STORY]