Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/18
By: Joseph Yeh, CNA staff reporter 

The William Jones Cup, an annual summer basketball tournament that has been a fixture on Taiwan’s sports calendar for 40 years, is once again in full swing at New Taipei’s Xinzhuang Gymnasium.

One of only a handful of international sports events played regularly in Taiwan, it gives local fans the chance to show their national pride in backing the country’s blue (national A) and white (national B) teams in both the men’s and women’s divisions of the competition.

In recent years, however, the tourney has also turned into a “home” event for the Philippines and its rabid supporters, drawn from a pool of 150,000 Filipino migrant workers in Taiwan.    [FULL  STORY]