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Military still searching for fatally misfired missile

The China Post
Date: May 10, 2017
By: By Joseph Yeh

Almost a year after a missile misfire incident that killed a Taiwanese fisherman last July, the R.O.C. military said Tuesday that it is still looking for the whereabouts of the Hsiung Feng III anti-ship missile that caused the deadly incident.

The incident occurred on July 1, 2016 when a 500-ton Chin Chiang patrol vessel (金江艦) located at Zuoying Military Harbor in Kaohsiung accidentally fired a locally produced Hsiung Feng III anti-ship missile, which hit a fishing vessel and killed the ship’s skipper.

Following the disaster, the Navy blamed Petty Officer 2nd Class Kao Chia-chun (高嘉駿), who allegedly failed to follow standard operating procedures. Superior officers were not present when the missile was fired — it was set to the wrong launch mode.

Billed as “an aircraft carrier killer,” the Hsiung Feng III supersonic missile has a range of over 100 kilometers. Developed locally, the missile is designed to maximize damage by penetrating an enemy vessel’s hull before exploding inside.
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Safety report on No. 2 reactor ready soon: Atomic Energy Council

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-05-08

The Atomic Energy Council (AEC) says its review of a safety evaluation report on the No. 2 reactor of Taiwan’s First Nuclear Power Plant will be ready in a week or two. The AEC made the statement Monday.

The AEC had requested that Taiwan’s state-run power company – Taipower – submit the report. That’s after the atomic energy body found that the power plant had activated a “coastdown” process on its No. 2 reactor.

“Coastdown” refers to an action that permits the reactor power level to decrease gradually as the fuel in the core is depleted.

This is the first time that Taipower has started a coastdown process on a reactor for generation dispatching – or adjusting the amount of electricity produced by different generation units.    [FULL  STORY]

Indonesian shop owner nabbed for exploiting illegal migrants

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/05/08
By: Sunrise Huang and S.C. Chang

Taipei, May 8 (CNA) An Indonesian woman and 19 others were arrested in New

Photo courtesy of National Immigration Agency

Taipei on Monday on suspicion of illegally brokering jobs for migrant workers and remitting funds overseas.

Immigration officials said the woman, who runs an Indonesian store, was suspected of dispatching Indonesian migrants who have overstayed their visas to work in hospitals as nurses and cleaners.

Some of the migrants also work in the woman’s restaurant or as prostitutes, according to officials with a National Immigration Agency task force who are investigating a human trafficking ring suspected of using drugs to control Indonesian sexual workers.    [FULL  STORY]

Groups slam China for WHA exclusion

PUSH FOR PARTICIPATION:DPP and NPP lawmakers and civic groups urged the government to seek inclusion in international organizations under the name ‘Taiwan’

Taipei Times
Date: May 09, 2017
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter

As the nation waited yesterday for an invitation to the World Health Assembly (WHA)

From left, Foundation of Medical Professionals Alliance in Taiwan executive director Lin Shih-chia, former deputy minister of foreign affairs Michael Kau, Taiwan-UN Alliance president Michael Tsai, People News chairman Chen Yung-hsin, New Power Party Legislator Freddy Lim and Democratic Progressive Pary Legislator Lee Chun-yi hold a news conference in Taipei to condemn Chinese suppression and call on the government to support a bid to participate in the World Health Assembly under the name “Taiwan. Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times

— the final day for registration — campaigners and medical groups urged the legislature to issue a formal condemnation of Beijing and support a bid to seek WHA participation under the name “Taiwan” rather than “Chinese Taipei.”

A coalition of activists and lawmakers called for Taiwan’s participation in the WHA — the decisionmaking body of the WHO — in Geneva, Switzerland, from May 22 to May 31 and condemned China for attempting to exclude the nation from the global disease prevention network.

They urged legislators across party lines to condemn China’s suppression of Taiwan and support the bid to seek formal WHO membership and participation in other international organizations or competitions under the name “Taiwan.”

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Lee Chun-yi (李俊俋) said the DPP caucus would issue a condemnation by Friday if the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus did not endorse a collective condemnation, which would likely be the case.
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Fruit fun

The China Post
Date: May 9, 2017
By: CNA

Children from Pingtung County learn to cultivate pineapples with a local charitable organization (慈惠善導書院) in this photograph, taken Monday, May 8. The organization teaches the children the techniques of farming and making products from agricultural produce in order to give them a chance to earn tuition money for school.    [FULL  STORY]

Brazilian woman searches for long-lost Taiwanese father

Brazilian Monica Lin has come to Taiwan to find her long-lost Taiwanese father Lin Young-Shyoung (林雍雄)

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/05/08
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A Brazilian woman has moved to Taipei to search for her

Monica Lin (Left) and Lin Young-Shyoung (Right)

long-lost Taiwanese father, who abandoned her mother before she was born.

Monica Lin, 30, a masters student in Asian-Pacific Studies at National Chengchi University, was born and raised in a city near Brasilia, Brazil’s capital, called Samambaia Sul.

Monica’s father, Lin Young-Shyoung (林雍雄), also known as David Lin, went to Brazil in the early 1980’s and met her mother, Maria de Jesus Miranda de Souza, in Brasilia. The two met at a school where her father was studying Portuguese. Her mother believed that her father was an official representative of Taiwan in Brazil.    [FULL  STORY]

Air quality unhealthy for sensitive groups in southern Taiwan

Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-05-07

Much of Taiwan, including Taipei in the north was experiencing “good” to “moderate” air quality on Sunday. But authorities were urging sensitive groups in the south to be on alert.

The Environmental Protection Administration’s Taiwan Air Quality Monitoring Network showed mostly yellow – or “moderate” – markers in the north, with a scattering of green markers which denote “good” air quality.

But by 9am, areas in central Taiwan, including parts of Nantou, Yunlin, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung and Pingtung, were flashing orange markers. That means the air quality is “unhealthy” for young children, the elderly and people with chronic diseases.

The EPA’s six-color scale takes into account ozone, PM2.5 and PM10 particulates, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide and nitric oxide concentrations in the air.
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Visit the oldest district in Taiwan’s oldest city

Taiwan News
Date: 2017/05/07
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Taipei (Taiwan News)–As the slogan put forth by the Tainan City Government to

As the slogan put forth by the Tainan City Government to promote the city goes, “If you never visited Tainan, you never really visited Taiwan,” anothe(By Taiwan News)

promote the city goes, “If you never visited Tainan, you never really visited Taiwan,” another slogan should be created to read like, “If you never visited Anping, you never really visited Tainan.”

Taiwanese history was initiated from Tainan, and Anping (安平) was the earliest developed district of Tainan. Therefore, abundant historic sites and structures can still be seen in the district. The following is a list that tourists visiting Anping should not miss. Visitors can take Buses 2, 88, and 99 from across the Tainan train station, and get off at Fort Anping. Visitors may either walk or ride a bike to explore every corner of the oldest area in Taiwan.

Tainan public bike rental T-Bike also has a station not far away from Fort Anping at Anyi Parking Lot on Anyi Road across the Anyi Bridge.

In 1624, the Dutch arrived in Formosa and established “Fort Zeelandia,” the construction of which was completed in 1634. The fort, which locals call Fort Anping, served as the administration center for the Dutch ruling Taiwan. Today, only a few wall ruins are left from the 17th century fort, which require visitors to pay close attention to locate.    [FULL STORY]

Taipei slaughterhouse suspends operations due to possible avian flu

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/05/07
By: Yu Kai-hsiang and Ko Lin

Taipei, May 7 (CNA) A poultry slaughterhouse in Taipei has been ordered to suspend

(File photo)

operations for 24 hours due to suspected cases of avian influenza, the Taipei City Animal Protection Office said Sunday.

Veterinarians reported the suspected cases to authorities late Saturday and early Sunday after they found traces of the disease in five groups of chickens transported to the Taipei wholesale poultry market slaughterhouse, it said.

A total of 304 slaughtered chickens have been confiscated and frozen at the slaughterhouse for further inspection and analysis.    [FULL  STORY]

Most government apps ‘vulnerable’

SECURITY:The most common issues relate to data storage and software vulnerability, among others. Apps that fail to meet the deadline for improvement will be pulled

Taip Times
Date: May 08, 2017
By: Lo Tien-pin and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Executive Yuan yesterday said 98 government-made applications render their users highly vulnerable to hacking, adding that it would pull the apps from circulation if improvements are not made by the middle of the month.

Only 20 apps out of a total of 144 made by the Executive Yuan’s subordinate agencies passed all tests conducted by its evaluators, an Executive Yuan inventory report to the Legislative Yuan Internal Administration Committee said.

Of the remaining apps, 23 were found to have four to six vulnerabilities and 101 have one to three vulnerabilities, the report said.

The 98 apps that failed the tests pose a “high informational security risk” and the National Development Council last month instructed agencies to improve them before the middle of this month.    [FULL  STORY]