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Chu to let ‘matters run their course’ on Ko invitation

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 14, 2015
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Eric Chu (朱立倫)

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice presidential candidate Jennifer Wang, left, and presidential candidate Eric Chu, center, yesterday wear chefs’ uniforms at the founding of a campaign support group for the catering trade. Photo: CNA

yesterday said that he would let matters run their course with regard to the possibility of inviting Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) to boost his campaign.

Chu made the remarks during a morning visit to a tourism factory in Yunlin County in response to reporters’ questions about rumors that one of Chu’s aides had telephoned Ko in the morning to sound him out on the topic.

“I think I will let everything run its course,” Chu said.

“I do not know which one of my aides spoke to Ko, but we are all friends and I will still extend my gratitude to him regardless of whether he comes to help me out or not,” he added. [FULL STORY]

Pressure grows in US for more regular Taiwan arms sales

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 13, 2015
By: William Lowther / Staff reporter, in Washington

With the US believed to be ready to announce a new US$1 billion arms sales package for Taiwan, pressure is growing to further increase the flow of weapons and to make future sales on a more regular basis.

“We should be seeing even more regular transfers of equipment that would help shore up Taiwanese security,” US House Committee on Foreign Affairs chairman Eliot Engel said.

He was speaking as the committee passed the Taiwan Naval Support Act, urging US President Barrack Obama to quickly transfer at least two guided-missile frigates to the nation.

The transfer is expected to be part of a new arms package to be sent for US Congressional approval before the end of this month. [FULL STORY]

Ko looks for discourse of candidates

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-12-12
By Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je said Saturday he was still

Ko looks for discourse of candidates. Taiwan News

looking for the “discourse” to decide which legislative candidates to support in the capital.

In the campaign for the January 16 legislative elections, the Democratic Progressive Party has only nominated two of its own members for the eight legislative districts in Taipei City. In the six other seats, it is backing a wide variety of candidates from other parties or independents.

There have been reports that the DPP and Ko would like to see those candidates form an alliance, with names like “Capital Progress Alliance” or “Capital Change Alliance” being bandied about by the media.

On Saturday, Ko attended the official opening of the campaign headquarters of one of the independent candidates backed by the DPP, Lee Ching-yuan, at present a member of the Taipei City Council. [FULL STORY]

Wharf, lighthouse on Taiping Island inaugurated

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/12/12
By: Tang Pei-chun and Lilian Wu

Taipei, Dec. 12 (CNA) Interior Minister Chen Wei-zen (陳威仁) presided

Photo courtesy of Ministry of the Interior

Saturday over the opening of a renovated wharf and a newly constructed lighthouse on Taiping Island, the largest of the disputed Spratly Islands, which is controlled by Taiwan.

In a news release, the interior ministry said Chen, Coast Guard Administration Minister Wang Chung-Yi (王崇儀), and officials from other government agencies traveled to the island by plane.

The government is declaring to the international community that it plans to transform Taiping into an island of peace, ecological preservation and low carbon emissions and will help realize President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) “South China Sea Peace Initiative,” the ministry said.

It said the inauguration of the wharf and lighthouse was historically significant because Saturday marked the 69th anniversary of the return of Taiping Island from Japan to the Republic of China. [FULL STORY]

Vice presidential candidate Wang defends KMT term

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 13, 2015
By: Yeh Kuan-yu and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer

KMT vice presidential candidate Jennifer Wang (王如玄) yesterday said that

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) vice presidential candidate Jennifer Wang high fives a supporter at a campaign event in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA

the seeming lack of accomplishments under the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) over the past eight years is not because of a lack of actual accomplishments, but because the party is reflective and strives to do better.

“The KMT is a party that does things firmly and does not boast of its accomplishments,” she said, adding that the party is building its confidence and stepping forward to tell people how much it had achieved.

Wang made the remarks at an event hosted by a support group for KMT presidential candidate Eric Chu (朱立倫) and KMT Legislator Ting Shou-chung (丁守中) in Taipei’s Beitou District (北投). [FULL STORY]

Taipei revisited: making new memories in old places

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-12-11
By: Chia Lee, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

As time has changed, so has the environment around us. Established for 130

Taipei revisited: making new memories in old places. Taiwan News

years, the city of Taipei had inevitably gone through dramatic changes before our eyes. It has been part of their daily lives as residents of Taipei City walk down a street with antique buildings on their left and modern architects on their right. This glaring contradiction had once made us wonder: are we leaving these relics neglected and decayed?

In order to bring these old places back to their initial days of glory, Taipei City government had made effort restoring historic relics such as the Nishi Honganji Temple (Xi Ben Yuan Temple), the Wanhua Youth Park, and the former Air Force Command Center, turning them into great tourist attractions for public use and viewing. [FULL STORY]

Taiwan among 12 emerging travel destinations on Business Insider

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/12/11
By: Chen Ting-wei and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Dec. 11 (CNA) Described as Asia’s best-kept secret, Taiwan was listed

Sun Moon Lake. (CNa file photo)

on the Business Insider website as one of 12 emerging travel destinations that people must visit in 2016.

“2016 is all about emerging destinations,” said Anisha Shah, a broadcast journalist and photojournalist, in her article contributed to the American business, celebrity and technology news website published on Dec. 6.

Shah anticipated that the themes of “wilderness, wildlife and culture” will illuminate the travel itineraries next year. “Escapism and authenticity are key and nowhere offers them quite like fledgling and far-flung nations,” she said.

“Kyrgyzstan’s vast rolling mountains, Iceland’s wild natural phenomena, Madagascar’s prehistoric lemurs and Taiwan’s cultural treasure troves are some of the highlights marking the year ahead.” [FULL STORY]

Taiwan wins big at 2015 Golden Pin Design Award

Taiwan Today
Date: December 11, 2015

Taiwan swept the field at Golden Pin Design Award Dec. 10 in Taipei City,

A detachable bike-cum-shopping cart design by Taiwan’s Yeh Shih-yu is winner of a Golden Pin Concept Design Award Dec. 10 in Taipei City. (Courtesy of GPDA)

claiming 16 out of 29 top honors in four categories attracting 2,384 entries from 17 countries and territories.

Notable Design of the Year winners include EHS ArchiLab’s spatial planning for Toyo Ito’s Eslite Hotel; Gearlab Co. Ltd.’s highly durable and eco-friendly Akiak Greenland Paddle; National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute’s breakthrough technology for mass production of bamboo chairs; and Qisda Corp.’s Viva Pro Ultrasound Tablet for medical checkup.

In addition, young local designers Bryan Leung and Yeh Shih-yu were named inaugural Concept Design Award honorees. They each picked up a cash prize of NT$300,000 (US$9,153) along with a certificate and trophy. [FULL STORY]

Singer visits rural school after Internet post

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 12, 2015
By: Luo Hsin-chun and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer

Singer and actress Rene Liu (劉若英) paid a visit to a rural school in Pingtung

Singer Rene Liu, front center, poses for a picture with students and faculty members at Pingtung Girls’ High School on Wednesday. Photo: Luo Hsin-chen, Taipei Times

County and hosted a talk after reading a Facebook post by a high-school dean.

Two months ago, National Pingtung Senior Girls’ High School dean Huang Tsai-hung (黃再鴻), frustrated by numerous failed attempts to convince celebrities and intellectuals to visit his school, took his grievances to Facebook.

Hsuan wrote an article titled “Give the children in Pingtung a chance,” saying that Pingtung and Kaohsiung are on the same latitude, and that many writers and renowned people are willing to visit Kaohsiung, but are reluctant to cross the Gaoping River (高屏溪) into Pingtung, because they expect to be greeted by an “endless cultural desert.”

He said that if people were to give the children in Pingtung — who are in their own way kind of heart and brilliant — a chance, people would find that the children only lack the opportunity to improve themselves. [FULL STORY]

Melor is very unlikely to affect Taiwan, says CWB

The China Poast
Date: December 12, 2015
By: CNA

TAIPEI–A tropical storm that has formed off Guam Friday is not expected to threaten Taiwan, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) said, with an expert explaining that it is not uncommon for tropical storms to form in December.

As of 2 p.m. Friday, Tropical Storm Melor was centered 2,370 kilometers southeast of Eluanbi, the southernmost tip of Taiwan, moving at a speed of 27 kilometers per hour in a west-northwesterly direction toward the Philippines, according to the bureau.

Melor, the 27th storm of the 2015 Pacific typhoon season, was packing sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour, with gusts reaching 90 kilometers per hour, the bureau said.

The storm could move toward the Philippines, but chances are slim that it will affect Taiwan directly, according to forecasters. [FULL STORY]

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