KNOCKED OUT? The men’s soccer team needed to win against Hong Kong, but were undone by defensive lapses in a 4-0 rout that left them with a slim chance to advance

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 16, 2018
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

Taiwan’s women’s basketball squad were victorious in their opening match

of the Asian Games in Indonesia yesterday, but the men’s soccer team was thrashed by Hong Kong 4-0.

In women’s basketball, control guard Peng Szu-chin lit up the scoreboard with a game-high 16 points and four assists as Taiwan cruised past Kazakhstan 72-42 in their opening Group A game at the BGK Basketball Hall in Jakarta.

Huang Ping-jen had a well-balanced performance, recording 14 points, four assists, six rebounds and seven steals.

Taiwan’s solid defense limited Kazakhstan to only six and 12 points in the first two quarters respectively, lifting them to a 36-18 lead at halftime, which they extended to the 30-point victory margin.    [FULL  STORY]

THIRD-QUARTER SURGE: Coach Charlie Parker credited Ray Chen with their win, saying that the captain set the pace of Taiwan’s comeback in the second half over Japan

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 15, 2018
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

Taiwan got off to a winning start in men’s basketball and handball at the

Asian Games after defeating Japan and India respectively in the group stage.

Basketball captain Ray Chen led by example with 18 points, while forward Liu Cheng added 14 to prevail over Japan 71-65 in yesterday’s Group C opener at the GBK Basketball Hall in Jakarta.

Japan hit their stride early, going ahead by six points at the end of the first quarter and leading 37-30 at halftime, but Taiwan found their scoring touch with field goals and three-pointers in the third quarter, draining 29 points against Japan’s 16 to take the lead 59-53.

In the fourth quarter, Japan chipped away to close within two points, but Taiwanese-American Douglas Creighton sank two three-pointers in the final stretch and Liu grabbed a couple of rebounds to secure the six-point victory.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 14, 2018 
By: Staff writer, with CNA

Taiwanese tennis ace Latisha Chan and partner Ekaterina Makarova of

Russia were overcome on Sunday by their opponents in the final of the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada, but Chan will still hold the world No. 1 ranking in women’s doubles — for just a week or two.

Chan is passing on the Cincinnati Open, for which women’s doubles begin today, to participate in the Asian Games, which open in Indonesia on Sunday. So, her top ranking, made official yesterday, will likely last only until next week.

The Taiwanese-Russian pairing won their first set 6-4 against Australia’s Ashleigh Barty and Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands, who staged a comeback 3-6 and 8-10 in two straight sets.

“Unfortunately we didn’t win the title this week, but it was only 2 points away from us, congrats to our opponents, it was a really good match, we all gave our best out there,” Chan wrote on Facebook.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan grabbed a total of 18 medals, including 10 gold, at the 2018 Gay Games

Taiwan News
Date: 2018/08/12
By:  Central News Agency

Paris, Aug. 11 (CNA) Taiwan grabbed a total of 18 medals, including 10 gold, at the 2018 Gay Games that concluded in Paris on Saturday.

Chi Chia-wei (祁家威), a veteran gay rights activist and honorary team leader for Taiwan at the games, said the results, which also included five silver and three bronze medals, were better than expected.

Chi said he felt honored to be in Paris to cheer for Taiwanese athletes.

Taiwan has a chance to bid for the games host city in 2026, he said, with the vote to take place at an annual general meeting of the Federation of Gay Games in 2021.

Chi hoped that another Asian country can host the games after Hong Kong serves as host in 2022, he said.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/12
By: Lung Po-an and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, Aug. 12 (CNA) Taiwanese tennis ace Latisha Chan (詹詠然) will become

The second-seeded Chan and Makarova beat sixth seeds Andreja Klepac of Slovakia and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain 6-4, 7-6 (3) in the semifinals to book a spot in Sunday’s final against Ashleigh Barty of Australia and Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands.

With the victory, the 28-year-old Taiwanese earned a spot in the Rogers Cup women’s doubles final for the first time in her long career and also picked up enough ranking points to move into the top spot in the world in women’s doubles.

She moved up to second in the doubles rankings this past week after winning the doubles with Czech veteran Kveta Peschke in the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic on Aug. 5    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Aug 13, 2018
By: Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

Taiwan’s defense yesterday held firm through the first half, but Indonesian striker

Stefano Lilipaly scored a brace after the interval to lead the hosts to a 4-0 win in the Asian Games men’s soccer competition at Patriot Stadium in Bekasi, Indonesia.

Lilipaly found the net off a header in the 66th minute, and five minutes later the hosts doubled the lead when Brazil-born Alberto da Costa scored from a passing combination.

Lilipaly scored on a bicycle-kick on a cross a few minutes later, and substitute Muhammad Hargianto hit a long shot in injury-time to wrap up the match.

Taiwan had two good chances to score: One in the 17th minute, when defender Chen Ting-yang, after a free kick, found himself alone with the ball and only the goalkeeper to beat, but he hit the side netting. Another came just past the 30th minute, when midfielder Chen Chao-an had his shot cleared from in front of the goal line by Indonesia’s defense.    [FULL  STORY]

Fearless grandmother breaks the record for oldest paraglider in Taitung, looks forward to soaring again at 100 

Taiwan News
Date: 2018/08/09
By: Renée Salmonsen, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The morning of Aug. 8, 93-year-old Chin Wu Jui-lin (金吳瑞琳) became the oldest person to have ever paraglided in Taitung, Taiwan.

Chin, attached to her instructor, disembarked from about 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) in Luyueh township, gliding over cornfields and mountainous panoramas.

When Chin first expressed interest in taking such a big leap, the instructor hesitated. Chin’s family members vouched for her fitness and confirmed that she was extremely capable of handling such a feat. Chin’s youthful, adventurous spirit shone through and the instructor agreed.    [FULL  STORY]

Taiwan News  
Date: 2018/08/07
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)–The 2018 FIRA RoboWorld Cup hosted by Central Taiwan Science Park Bureau will take place from August 7 to August 11 at the sports center of Feng Chia University, Taichung.

The year’s FIRA RoboWorld Cup is participated by 12 countries including Brazil, Iran, the Philippines, Malaysia, Korea, Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Singapore and China, according to a Liberty Times report.

There are a total of 277 teams participating in the competition, the categories of which include HuroCup, AndroSot, RoboSot, SimuroSot, Mini DRC, the DARPA Robotics Challenge, Drone, and a very unique archery contest between humans and a robot, which is reportedly the first such event in the world, the report said. The archery contest took place on the first day of the event and the human team routed the robot, the report said.

In 1996, the Federation of International Robot Soccer Association (FIRA) organized the first robot soccer and other sports competition.“The main goal of FIRA is to promote cutting edge research into robotics, machine learning, computer vision, and artificial intelligence by using robot sports as benchmark problems,” an introduction to the FIRA RoboWorld Cup said.    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times 
Date: Aug 08, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA

Two Taiwanese teams have achieved their goals in this year’s Pony

League Baseball World Series, with one becoming champion of the under-18 Palomino tournament in Laredo, Texas, and the other the victor of the under-12 Bronco tournament in Los Alamitos, California.

In Los Alamitos on Monday, a team comprised of 11 to 12-year-old players from Kaohsiung’s Jhong-Jheng Elementary School overpowered contenders from Mexico City 15-0 in just five innings.

Starting pitcher Sung Po-han and his relief, Hsu Hsiang-chun, suppressed the Mexican batting to become the key players in their team’s victory.

It is the second Bronco League World Series that Taiwan has won since 2016, when a team also made up of players from Jhong-Jheng Elementary School, beat Puerto Rico 4-0 to win the title.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/08/06
By: Lee Chin-wei and Hsu Hsiao-ling

Wang Chia-ching (汪家慶)/Image taken from the Youtube channel of YuGiOhTCGEU
Taipei, Aug. 6 (CNA) Wang Chia-ching (汪家慶) of Taiwan was crowned champion of the main event Sunday at the 2018 Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship in Japan.

The card game competition, which features the popular Japanese manga series Yu-Gi-Oh!, attracted contestants from around the world, including Wang’s competitor in the final Australian Bohdan Temnyk.

Wang defeated Temnyk 2-1, with the points in the final match at 7000-5600, and was crowned champion of the TCG Main Event.

With that victory, Wang became the second Taiwanese to win the Japanese manga game competition since 2013, when Huang Hsin-en (黃新恩) took the title.
[FULL  STORY]