The China Post
Date: July 29, 2017
By: Pessy Lee, Special to The China Post

TAIPEI — The exhibition Lady Dior As Seen By Taiwan will be in Taipei 101 for four weeks, presenting 55 artworks to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Dior.

Lady Dior As Seen By is an exhibition that tours around the major cities in the world such as Seoul, Hong Kong and Tokyo, working with local artists. This year, Dior worked together with Taipei 101 for the first time, exhibiting 30 photographs and 25 sculptures, including works by Taiwanese artists.    [FULL  STORY]

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-07-27

A driverless minibus will undergo a trial run in Taipei in the early hours of the morning

from August 1st to 5th.

Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je said Thursday that members of the public should not be worried if they see the driverless EZ10 bus between 1 and 4 am. He said the test will take place on a short bus lane section of one of the city’s main thoroughfares.

Ko said, “This time we’re taking [the bus] onto the road for a test in real conditions. We will be using the bus lane on Xinyi Road to test the driverless bus between 1 and 4 in the morning. So if city residents see a bus moving about without a driver on Xinyi Road between 1 and 4 in the morning, don’t worry, don’t be scared.”

The early hours of the morning have been chosen for the test run as no regular buses will be operating during that time.  [FULL  STORY]

Cover of India Today magazine ruffles Beijing’s feathers by excluding Taiwan and Tibet from map of China

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/07/27
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — In a bizarre reversal of fortune, instead of the usual erroneous

inclusion of Taiwan in a map of China, the cover of the latest issue of the magazine India Today, not only excludes Taiwan from Chinese territory, but it also carved away Tibet from its posterior, while a tiny green chick in the shape of Pakistan stands behind it.

The creative illustration for its cover story, titled “China’s New Chick,” which analyzes China and Pakistan’s growing economic ties, was selected as the “The Cover of the Day” by the Society of Publication Designers (SPD), New York.

China’s Sina News quickly responded by asking “Where’s our Tibet and Taiwan?” In the article, India Today claims that the China-Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC) is laying the groundwork for a “takeover of Pakistan by China,” for it to eventually become “China’s colony.”

The question from the Taiwanese media is why the editors of the magazine decided to exclude Tibet and Taiwan from the illustration and what message were they trying to convey. Thus far, there have been no public comments by the editors of the magazine on the subject.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/07/27
By: Yang Shu-min and Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, July 27 (CNA) Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency said Thursday that Taiwanese boats

had not been fishing illegally in Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone as the government of that country has claimed.

The agency said its monitoring system showed that none of the seven Taiwanese fishing boats accused of poaching in Indonesian waters had engaged in any illegal operations over the past three months.

Lin Ding-rong (林頂榮), director of the agency’s Deep Sea Fisheries Division, said the agency could provide the evidence gathered from the monitoring system, which tracks the operations of some 1,800 Taiwanese fishing boats.    [FULL  STORY]

TEMPORARY SUSPENSIONS:Politicians and online personalities said they had been denied access to their Facebook accounts after writing criticisms of DPP policy

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 28, 2017
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter

The National Policy Foundation, a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) think tank,

yesterday said that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government might have clamped down on dissidents by allegedly suspending Facebook users who posted comments deemed harmful to the pan-green political camp.

“Facebook has entered a period of ‘Green Terror’ in Taiwan since the DPP took office,” foundation chief executive officer Sun Lih-chyun (孫立群) told a news conference in Taipei.

For example, an article by former Straits Exchange Foundation secretary-general Chen Charng-ven (陳長文) likening the Executive Yuan’s tightening of regulations on retired government and military officials’ visits to China to the reinstatement of Article 100 of the Criminal Code was temporarily removed by Facebook, Sun said.
[FULL  STORY]

The China Post
Date: July 27, 2017
By: The China Post

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A woman called the Taipei Fire Department for help Wednesday after

she and three others got lost while hiking up on Yangmingshan.

They found their way out and headed home soon after, but they forgot one important thing: to tell the fire department that they were safe.

Police officers and firefighters launched a search-and-rescue mission that continued for 24 hours after the distress call.

It started at 2:32 p.m. on Wednesday, when the Taipei City Fire Department received the call from the woman. She told the operator that she, another woman and two children had gotten lost while hiking to Qingtiangang (擎天崗) in Yangmingshan National Park (陽明山國家公園).

The woman said they couldn’t determine their exact position because they were surrounded by tall silvergrass. The call disconnected and the fire department was not able to contact the caller.    [FULL  STORY]

U.S. ITC names pork as major issue of concern, hog farmers oppose imports

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/07/26
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taiwan will discuss all issues with a visiting United States

trade delegation, the Presidential Office said Wednesday, as hog farmers voiced their renewed opposition against the import of U.S. pork showing residues of ractopamine.

The comments came after the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) published its 2016 trade report Tuesday, mentioning the ractopamine ban as a major concern in relations with Taiwan.

The island allowed the import of U.S. beef containing traces of the leanness drug in 2012, which led to a steep drop in popularity for then-President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九). Pork is an even touchier subject because hog farming is a strong local sector of the Taiwanese economy.    [FULL  STORY]