Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2017-02-15
The Taoyuan Airport MRT will begin offering free rides on Thursday as it begins trial operations.
Passengers can check in their bags and get their boarding passes at Taipei Main Station. City check-in and bag drop services will also be free during this period. China Airlines, EVA Airways and their subsidiaries Mandarin Airlines and UNI Airways will have check-in counters.
Other airlines will add services after official operations begin. Airport officials are advising passengers to use the city check-in 3 hours before their flights.
Passengers will have access to all 21 stations on the 51 kilometer line.Taiwan protests over Japan’s claim to Diaoyutai in revised textbook guidelines
Taiwan foreign ministry reaffirms its territorial sovereignty over Diaoyutai
Taiwan News
dATE: 2017/02/15
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
(By Wikimedia Commons)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Japan’s education ministry announced a plan on Tuesday that lists the contested Diaoyutai (釣魚台), known as the Senkaku (尖閣列島) in Japan, as an “inherent territory” of Japan in its revised curriculum guideline designed for elementary and junior high school students. Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan lodged a formal protest against the claim and reiterated Taiwan’s sovereignty over the archipelago.
Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) is no stranger to diplomatic controversy, given that it has long been lambasted by its neighbors including China and South Korea for intentionally covering up its war crimes, including massacres and the sexual slavery of “comfort women” since the 1980s, displaying a very different perception of the same events in its neighboring countries. The controversy has recently extended beyond matters of war and to the territorial disputes on Diaoyutai and Takeshima (竹島), which is called Dokdo (獨島) in Korea.
A Japanese education official said on Wednesday that both Senkaku and Takeshima are “inherent territories” of Japan and there is no question to have the country’s future generation to know the fact. [SOURCE]
