Taiwanese Americans voiced their anger at Taiwan’s continued exclusion from the UN in a protest on Saturday near Times Square

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 17, 2015
By: Chris Fuchs  /  Contributing reporter in New York

Taiwanese Americans took to the streets of New York Saturday to call attention to Taiwan’s

exclusion from the UN, just two weeks before Pope Francis is expected to address the 70th UN General Assembly in his first trip as pontiff to the US.

“Every year, we’re gonna shout, we’re gonna fight and we’re gonna be heard,” Outreach for Taiwan co-founder Jenny Wang (汪采羿), one of the organizers, screamed through a microphone as more than 100 people, penned in by New York Police Department metal barricades along Seventh Avenue near Times Square, waved baby-blue “UN for Taiwan” flags.

For 24 years, Taiwanese in New York have staged rallies similar to the one held on Saturday, usually timing them to the start of each new general assembly. Unlike last year’s event, this year’s included a sidewalk march from Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, a park near the UN, to Seventh Avenue between 41st and 42nd streets.

Chanting “keep Taiwan free,” among other slogans, marchers held aloft UN for Taiwan flags as well as small green-and-white ones, featuring a green image of the nation in the center, as they threaded their way through throngs of tourists and a motley mix of cartoon characters, like Spongebob and Mickey Mouse, who posed for photos in exchange for cash with sightseers visiting Times Square.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/15
By: Wang Shu-fen and Lilian Wu

Taipei, Sept. 15 (CNA) The pilot and co-pilot of a TransAsia Airways plane will be severely

disciplined for failing to follow the instructions of air controllers and entering a runway without permission, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said Tuesday.

The CAA said it will discipline the pilot and co-pilot of the plane for their negligence in early October.

According to the Civil Aviation Act, they could be suspended for between one and three months and fined between NT$60,000 (US$1,846) and NT$300,000.

The incident took place on Sept. 4, when their TransAsia flight GE2322 was preparing to leave for Taipei from the outlying island of Kinmen at around 10:19 a.m.

With a UNI Air flight five nautical miles away and ready to land at Kinmen airport, air controllers asked the TransAsia ATR72-500 plane to wait on the airport’s taxiway.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-09-14
By: Ko Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

In a bid to further improve the quality of domestic care, the Ministry of Labor (MOL)

expects to implement a new law next year that would allow foreign helpers to extend their expertise through assigned services, reports said Monday.

After having been put under legislative review for four years, the Legislative Yuan finally passed a draft bill in May on “Long-term Care Services Act,” a new law that would pave the way for long-term care services in Taiwan.

The act would allow for employed, personal and family caregivers to be systematically incorporated into the long-term care system framework, with the former group, including migrant caregivers, provided with training, the MOL said.

According to Chen Shih-chang, deputy director of the Workforce Development Agency, the new law would also enable domestic firms or related agencies to extend their long-term care services door-to-door, as existing law stipulates that migrant caregivers can only be placed by individual homes needing such service or through local broker.   [FULL  STOERY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/15
By: Hsieh Chia-chen and Romulo Huang

Taipei, Sept. 15 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) decorated the speaker of Paraguay’s lower house, Hugo A. Velazquez, with the Order of the Brilliant Star with Special Grand Cordon Tuesday in Taipei for his remarkable contributions to cementing the friendship and cooperation between the two nations.

Leading an eight-member parliamentary delegation, Velazquez arrived in Taipei Sept. 13 for a five-day visit.

After receiving the medal, Velazquez said that he felt greatly honored to be decorated and assured Ma that he will continue to do his best to further bilateral ties.

During their stay in Taiwan, Velazquez and the members of his delegation will also meet with Legislative Yuan Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) and other high-ranking government officials, as well as visit various economic and cultural facilities.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/09/14
By: Jeffrey Wu

Taipei, Sept. 14 (CNA) Facebook Inc. launched an online campaign in Taiwan on Monday,

using illustrations and graphics to advise people on Internet safety and social media protocols.

The content for the campaign was created in collaboration with five Taiwanese social welfare organizations, namely the End Children Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes in Taiwan (ECPAT Taiwan, 台灣展翅協會), Child Welfare League Foundation (兒童福利聯盟), Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation (婦女救援基金會), Taiwan Suicide Prevention Center (自殺防治中心) and Taiwan Lifeline International (生命線).

Facebook also worked with two local illustrators, Duncan and Nikumon, to produce the message that young people in Taiwan should pay attention to the issue of “online respect.”     [FULL  STORY]