The China Post
Date: July 12, 2016
By: The China Post news staff

TAIPEI, Taiwan — President Tsai Ing-wen meets with Taiwanese women softball athletes at the Presidential Office on Monday, July 11. Tsai encouraged the athletes, stating that the country stands behind them. The team will leave for Canada today to attend the Woman’s World Softball Championship 2016, in which 31 teams from all over the world are competing. Tsai praised the team for showing the world Taiwan’s prowess in the sport on the international stage.     [SOURCE]

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Taipei Times
Date: Jul 06, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with Reuters and AP, LONDON

It was a day of mixed emotions for Taiwan’s Chan sisters at Wimbledon on Monday,

with elder sister Chan Yung-jan advancing to the third round of the mixed doubles, while younger sister Chan Hao-ching bade farewell to the grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis Club for another year.

Fifth seeds Chan Yung-jan and Nenad Zimonjic took just 47 minutes to see off Oksana Kalashnikova of Georgia and Matwe Middelkoop of the Netherlands 7-5, 6-1 in the second round of the mixed doubles.

The Taiwanese-Serbian duo fired five aces, hit 11 winners and converted four of six break points, winning 61 of the 101 points contested to set up a third-round clash with Scott Lipsky of the US and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia, who ousted Taiwan’s Chuang Chia-jung in the second round on Sunday.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/05
By: Amy Huang and Kay Liu

Taipei, July 5 (CNA) Two open water swim events will take place in Taiwan’s Kinmen County at the end of July, including one covering 7,000 meters from Lieyu Islet in the county to Xiamen in China, Kinmen County authorities announced Monday.

The swim between Kinmen and Xiamen will take place for an eighth year this year on July 31, and a total of 100 two-swimmer relay teams are expected to compete for total prize money of 300,000 Chinese yuan (US$44,984.89), the county government said.

The 7-kilometer race is held from Xiamen to Kinmen in odd-numbered years and from Kinmen to Xiamen even-numbered years.

The 100 teams, including 40 from Taiwan or composed of overseas Chinese, and 60 from China (including Hong Kong and Macau) were decided after a selection process in May.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 05, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter

A brace from Lin Chieh-hsun and a late winner by Tsai Shuo-che saw Taiwan rally from a goal

down to edge Macau 3-2 in Guam yesterday and top the 2017 East Asian Cup first preliminary round qualifying group.

The victory gave Taiwan a perfect record at the Guam FA National Training Center in Dededo following their 8-1 victory over the Northern Mariana Islands on Thursday last week and the 2-0 win over Mongolia on Saturday.

Macau took a surprise lead in the eighth minute when Taiwan’s Chen Wei-chuan fouled Pang Chi Hang on the edge of the penalty area and Chan Man converted the resulting free-kick, although goalkeeper Chiu Yu-hung probably should have done better than to help push the ball into the back of the net.

Taiwan dominated possession and got the equalizer in the 36th minute when some intricate passing on the left side of midfield released Lin, who ran through the center of the defense before coolly slotting past Ho Man Fai in the Macau goal.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/03
By: Lee Chin-wei and Kay Liu

Taipei, July 3 (CNA) Taiwanese badminton players Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) and Chou Tien-chen

(周天成) kept the singles titles at the Yonex Chinese Taipei Open at home Sunday.

Tai, ranked world No. 9 as of June 30, took on No. 8 player Wang Shixian (王適嫻) of China in the women’s singles final of the six-day tournament held in Taipei Arena.

Tai beat Wang 23:21, 21:6 to grab her second singles title in the tournament, a Grand Prix Gold event which carries total prize money of US$200,000. She first won the tournament in 2012.

Tai said Wang is a fast runner and she won by keeping up with the Chinese player’s pace and seizing opportunities to launch attacks.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/03
By: Lin Hung-han and Romulo Huang

Taipei, July 3 (CNA) The baseball team of Hsin Ming Junior High School of Taoyuan, northern

Taiwan, won the title of the Junior League Baseball Asia-Pacific regional tournament on Sunday after beating their Chinese rivals with 10:0 in a five-inning called game.

The Hsin Ming nine, who represented Taiwan in the tournament which was held in southern Pingtung County from June 28 to July 3, have obtained the right to represent the Asia-Pacific region to participate in the Junior League Baseball World Series to be held Aug. 14-21 in Taylor, Michigan.

A total of six countries participated in the regional tournament, including China, Hong Kong, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), the Philippines, India and the host country, Taiwan.     [FULL  STORY]