Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/31
By: Lo Hsiu-wen and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, July 31 (CNA) The Central News Agency (CNA, 中央通訊社), Taiwan’s national news agency, was one of the five news websites that drew the most visits by university and college students around the country, according to a Shih Hsin University survey released Friday.

The survey found 73.4 percent of the respondent university and college students used the Internet as their key vehicle to access news.

The news website the students visited most frequently was Yahoo Kimo News, followed by Google News, NowNews, Nius News and CNA, according to the survey.

Among five major media categories, the usage rate of the Internet was the highest, attracting 98.9 percent of university and college student users. It was followed by television (82.4 percent), newspaper (42.2 percent), magazine (25.8 percent) and radio (19.8 percent), the survey showed.     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-07-30
By: Ko Lin, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

President Ma Ying-jeou expressed his grave regret Thursday evening at the Ministry of

Ma urges MOE to hold talks with students. Central News Agency

National Defense (MND), calling for student protestors not to take the radical path by way of suicide, but rather through peaceful negotiation to solve their differences in opinion.

Ma urged the Ministry of Education (MOE) to hold talks with the students as soon as possible and try to come to terms with them but all the while under the legal boundaries of the constitution.

His comments came during a press conference at the defense ministry, where the president was taking part in the premiere of a new documentary about the nation’s air force produced by the National Geographic Channel.

Lin Kuan-hua, a student enrolled at the Juang Jing Vocational High School, was found dead in his room early in the morning at 8:30 a.m. Lin apparently locked himself up and took his own life by burning charcoal.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/30
By: Lung Pei-ning and Romulo Huang

Taipei, July 30 (CNA) Among a series of reforms to the national health insurance program,

Photo courtesy of Common Health Magazine.

nearly 90 percent of the polled people of Taiwan said that they are in favor of adopting the family physician system, according to results of a survey made public by the Common Health Magazine.

An 87.9 percent of the polled people said that they are willing to support the family physician system if the assigned family physician could be better aware of their health conditions and the implementation of such a system could reduce medical expenditures, the prestigious health magazine said.

Besides, an 86.8 percent of the polled people said that they believe in the diagnosis of their diseases by the nation’s physicians, as well as their suggestions for related treatments.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-07-30
By: CNA and Staff Reporter

Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je reiterated Thursday during a meeting with Shanghai’s deputy mayor

Weng Tiehui, left, meets Ko Wen-je, July 30. (Photo/CNA)

Weng Tiehui in Taipei his concept that the “new perspectives of 2015” on cross-Taiwan Strait relations that he proposed earlier this year could be the foundation for future exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.

Weng arrived in Taipei the previous day on an exchange visit following a trip to Shanghai in May by Taipei deputy mayor Chou Li-fang.

During Thursday’s closed-door meeting, which lasted for about 30 minutes, Ko and Weng exchanged gifts to symbolize the friendship between the two cities.

Asked whether Weng asked him to clearly state his position on the 1992 Consensus, Ko said that cross-strait exchanges should occur under the principles of of mutual awareness, mutual understanding, mutual respect and mutual cooperation, while adhering to the spirit of the understanding that “both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one family.”     [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News
Date: 2015-07-29
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Former New Taipei City Vice Mayor Hsu Chih-chien was being

New Taipei ex-vice mayor faces scandal. Central News Agency

investigated in a corruption case related to urban renovation, reports said Wednesday.

Hsu reportedly used his function as chairman of an urban renovation review committee to demand bribes from construction companies, the Chinese-language Apple Daily reported on its website.

On Wednesday, investigators reportedly searched 17 locations, including Hsu’s home and the headquarters of a major construction company, and questioned seven suspects and six witnesses, a list which included Hsu, a son, a brother, and company officials. The people questioned were likely to be transferred to the Taipei District Prosecutors Office for further interrogation, the newspaper reported.

From May 2011 until June 2014, Hsu reportedly accepted expensive watches and gold bars worth a total of millions of NT dollars from two construction companies named as Paohsing Development and Leyoung Construction Co., Ltd., reports said.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/29
By: Wang Hung-kuo and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, July 29 (CNA) A junior exchange student from Panama at Taiwan’s Central Police University was honored by the New Taipei mayor Wednesday for his bravery in nailing a thief in Tamsui, a popular tourist destination in the northern municipality.

In a meeting with city police, Mayor Eric Chu (朱立倫) presented an award to Jorge Luis Pitty Contos and praised him for being able to put into practice what he has learned, using the skills in which he was trained at the police university to subdue a thief.

Contos was attacked by a thief while he and his friends were sitting chatting on a beach near Tamsui while appreciating the sunrise in the early morning of July 26.

Unfortunately for the would-be robber, however, Contos is this year’s champion of Taiwan’s Joint College Judo Competition, so the police student, who speaks fluent Mandarin, easily nailed the thief before marching him to the Tamsui police precinct.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-07-29
By: CNA

A new aviation education hall will open at the Air Force Academy in Taiwan’s southern city of

An S-2T anti-submarine aircraft. (Photo/Military News Agency)

Kaohsiung early next month, featuring an array of historic exhibits, the country’s Ministry of National Defense said Tuesday.

Covering an area of 2.8 hectares, the facility will be opened Aug. 8, an open day for the Gangshan Air Base, where the academy is located, the ministry said.

The hall will include a special exhibition on the Republic of China’s War of Resistance against Japan (or Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945) and the subsequent development of the ROC military in the following years, the ministry said.

A total of 16 historic aircraft in the ROC’s history will be on display, it said. The planes will include the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk used in the eight-year war against Japan and the S-2T anti-submarine aircraft which played an important role in the defense of Taiwan against the People’s Republic of China in the 1990s, the ministry said.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date:  Jul 30, 2015

On July 17 the New Taipei City Animal Protection and Health Inspection Office, acting in

New Taipei City animal protection officers raiding an illegal puppy mill in Lujhou District on July 17 prepare to transport confiscated dogs to an animal shelter.
動保警察會同動保處人員七月十七日抄查蘆洲區一所非法繁殖場，準備將沒入的狗兒送回板橋區動物之家安置。
Photo courtesy of the New Taipei City Animal Protection and Health Inspection Office
照片由新北市政府動物保護防疫處提供

conjunction with animal protection police, seized 27 dogs in a 20 ping (66 m2) attic in New Taipei City’s Lujhou District. The dogs’ vocal cords had been cut so that they could not bark loudly, and they were all shut in cages in a sultry room that reeked of a foul odor.

The animal protection office had received reports from members of the public about an illegal building on Alley 22 of Guanghua Road in Lujhou District holding a large number of dogs and emitting a bad smell. Investigations revealed that it was an illegal breeding facility run by a nearby pet store. On the afternoon of July 17, in conjunction with animal protection police from the Lujhou District Precinct, the animal protection office inspected the pet store and its illegal breeding facility and seized eight male and 19 female dogs, including one pregnant bitch, along with other evidence of breeding. After the inspectors showed the apartment property records to the pet store owner, whose surname is Chen, he admitted that he was the owner of the dogs. The animal protection office then issued an on-the-spot ticket imposing a fine of NT$50,000 for violations of Article 25.1 and Article 5 of the Animal Protection Act. The 27 dogs were confiscated and taken back to the animal protection office for rehoming, thus putting an end to this illegal breeding business.     [FULL  STORY]