Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/06/06
By: Lee Chin-wei and Romulo Huang

Ho Chi Minh City, June 6 (CNA) Taiwanese athlete Yang Chun-han (楊俊瀚) won the 200-meter heat in 20.73 seconds on Monday at the Asian Junior Athletics Championship 2016 being held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

It was the second gold medal Yang has grabbed at the championships that opened June 3 in the southern Vietnamese city and runs through Monday.

On the same day, Li Yu-chieh (林玉婕) finished on the third place in women’s 400-meter hurdles in 60.02 seconds, clinching one more bronze medal for Taiwan.

Teaming up with Yeh Shou-bo (葉守博), Liu Chao-hsuan (劉兆軒) and Shen Yu-sen (沈郁森), Yang won his first gold medal at the Asian youth athletic tournament in the men’s 4x100m relay in 39.75 seconds Sunday.     [FULL  STORY]

QUICK DAY’S WORK:Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei needed only 53 minutes to beat Naomi Broady, while Wozniacki beat Cagla Buyukakcay 7-5, 6-3 after a two-month layoff

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 09, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AP, NOTTINGHAM, England

Taiwanese No. 1 Hsieh Su-wei cruised into the second round of the Aegon Open on the grass courts

in Nottingham, England, on Tuesday, while Caroline Wozniacki’s first match in more than two months also ended in victory.

World No. 72 Hsieh raced to a 6-2, 6-1 victory over world No. 81 Naomi Broady in just 53 minutes to improve her career record to 2-0 against the Briton after winning their only previous encounter in Nottingham in 2012.

The Taiwanese saved both break points she faced and converted five of six, winning 52 of the 82 points contested to advance to a second-round clash yesterday against Alison Riske of the US.

“She has got a lot of confidence at the moment, I didn’t serve my best,” Broady told the Daily Mail. “It was my first match on grass, and my first game on clay ended in a similar scoreline and it got better after that. I can’t take a lot from it, there aren’t any positives to take from the game going forward, I just have to brush it off and get back on the practice courts.”     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 07, 2016
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter

New Taipei City yesterday defeated Kaohsiung 7-4 in a rain-delayed game at Sinjhuang

Stadium to claim the E.Sun Cup, the annual youth baseball competition for the nation’s top high-school teams that also serves as selection for the nation’s U18 squad.

Due to periodic rain showers in northern Taiwan yesterday, a scheduled game to determine third and fourth places could not take place, and officials announced that Tainan and Hsinchu City were joint winners and awarded the bronze medal to both teams.

The championship final was suspended in the late afternoon due to rain, with hosts New Taipei City ahead 2-1 after two frames.
When play resumed after more than two hours, the hosts piled on three more runs in the third inning.

In the sixth frame, Kaohsiung pushed two men home on two hits, a ground-out and a wild pitch to narrow the gap to 5-3.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/06/04
By: Jay Chou and Christie Chen

Jakarta, June 4 (CNA) Taiwan’s top female badminton player Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎) defeated China’s Wang Shixian (王適嫻) Saturday to advance to the final of the women’s singles at the 2016 Indonesia Open Superseries Premier.

Tsai beat Wang 21-9, 21-15 in straight sets. She will face world No. 3 Wang Yihan (王儀涵) of China in the championship match the following day.

It is Tai’s best performance so far at the Indonesia Open Superseries Premier.

The tournament, one of 12 tournaments in the World Superseries of the Badminton World Federation, is being held in Jakarta May 30-June 5, with a total purse of US$900,000.      [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Jun 05, 2016
By: AFP, SAN FRANCISCO

Muhammad Ali was remembered in tributes worldwide for his iconic fight for social justice as

well as his legendary boxing battles following his death on Friday at age 74.

“We lost a giant today,” Filipino fighter Manny Pacquiao said. “Boxing benefitted from Muhammad Ali’s talents, but not as much as mankind benefitted from his humanity.”

The front-page headline on Ali’s hometown newspaper, the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky, simply said, “The Greatest” with a photo of Ali in the ring.

Ali spoke out for African-American civil rights in the 1960s, carrying on his fight against injustice and sacrificing the prime years of his own career in the process.

“He is, without a question in my mind, the most transformative person of our time,” boxing promoter Bob Arum said.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/05/31
By: Ku Chuan and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, May 31 (CNA) Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said Tuesday he is determined to host a

successful 2017 Summer Universiade and that if he fails, he will assume political responsibility.

Asked by several city councilors about the progress the city government has made in preparations for the World University Games during a question-and-answer session at the city council, Ko said he is duty bound to host the event successfully.

“If I do not succeed, I should perform seppuku,” Ko said. Seppuku or harakiri is a highly ritualized form of suicide that involves self-disembowelment.

The city government won the right in 2011 to host the 2017 Summer Universiade, an international sporting and cultural festival that is staged every two years in a different city. It is regarded as second only to the Olympic Games. The Summer Universiade consists of 11 compulsory sports, with 14 compulsory disciplines and up to three optional sports chosen by the host country.     [FULL  STORY]

The News Lense
Date: 2016/05/31, Business
By: Edward White

One of the world’s top tech investors has two pieces of advice for Taiwanese startups: chase global

consumer markets and work as hard as Kobe Bryant.

Hans Tung, a managing partner at GGV Capital, knows about unicorns – startups valued at more than US$1 billion. He was an early-stage investor in China’s Xiaomi and Alibaba, to name just two firms.

Speaking in Taipei this afternoon, Tung said most of the 84 unicorns produced in the U.S. to date, “especially the bigger ones,” sell consumer-focused products in countries around the world.

“They don’t focus on the U.S. market anymore,” he says. “They tend to be much more global.”

Tung grew up in Taiwan, moved to the U.S. at 13, went on to study at Stanford University and now ranks 21st in the Forbes Midas list for tech investors.     [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: May 31, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AP, PARIS

The Chan sisters both advanced to the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles at the French Open on Sunday, but fellow Taiwanese Chuang Chia-jung bid au revoir to the red clay courts in Paris.

Top seeds Chan Hao-ching and Jamie Murray had to rally from a set down to oust Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia and Rohan Bopanna of India 2-6, 6-3, 10-8 in their second-round match on Court 17 at Roland Garros.

The Taiwanese-British duo saved three of the six break points they faced and converted two of three, winning 59 of the 111 points contested to advance to a quarter-final against sixth seeds Andrea Hlavackova of the Czech Republic and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France.

On Court 10, seventh seeds Chan Yung-jan and Max Mirnyi completed a 7-5, 6-4 victory over Serbian duo Jelena Jankovic and Nenad Zimonjic.     [FULL  STORY]