TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) yesterday rescued three Philippine fishermen stranded in Taiwan's fishing waters after their encounter with Tropical Storm ...
13 military recruitment below 2 of target
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Ministry of National Defense data covering volunteer recruitment has revealed that from January to June this year, the number of newly registered volunteer soldiers for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Military Police has reached a mere 462 personnel, still far from the expected 28,000, leading to an achievement rate of less than 2 ...
TI plans new graft poll for Taiwan following skepticism
TAIPEI--Transparency International (TI) will commission a new poll on corruption in Taiwan, an official said yesterday, after the group's original findings sparked widespread ...
Fuel prices hiked by NT$0.1 and NT$0.2 for gas and diesel
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Effective today, the per-liter price of fuel will be increased by NT$0.1 for gasoline and NT$0.2 for diesel, the Chinese Petroleum Corporation (CPC, ??) announced ...
Awarding ceremony of Taipei Film Festival
The Best Actor winner Jimmy Wong (R) and the Best Actress winner Lin Yen-cheng attend the awarding ceremony of the 15th Taipei Film Festival held in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, July 20, 2013. ...
Three Filipinos rescued by Taiwan Coast Guard
Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Three Filipino fishermen were rescued by a Coast Guard patrol vessel some 40 nautical miles south of Taiwan's southern tip of Eluanbi Sunday, a Taiwanese official said. The 1,800-ton Wei Shin came across a sampan in danger of sinking and the three fishermen asking for help, said Captain Hsu Yun-sheng of the Coast Guard Administration's southern office. The three ...
1 dead 6 injured after van falls into valley
Taipei, July 21 (CNA) A van carrying a family of seven fell into a valley near Hehuan Mountain in Nantou County on Sunday, possibly because of brake failure, leaving one person dead and six injured. Kuo Shih-liang told the police that he was driving a van carrying his family and the family of his sister-in-law down the mountainous Taiwan Provincial Highway 14A at 10 a.m. when the van's ...
DPP urges immediate review of controversial service trade pact
China service trade pact, saying that people are mobilizing in opposition to the accord. The Taiwan Association of University Professors, an anti-ruling Kuomintang (KMT) group, will join other local groups in launching a rally in Taipei July 27 to express its opposition to the pact because of its potential negative impact on several service sectors and the lack of legislative review of the deal. ...
Cleaning building windows ranked as least favorite job in Taiwan
Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Cleaning the windows and exterior walls of buildings was ranked by Taiwanese workers as their least favorite job, according to a recent poll by 1111 Job Bank. Given a choice of several job categories, 45.4 percent of respondents chose window cleaning as a job they would not be willing to do. Some 41.4 percent chose being a fertilizer worker as an undesirable occupation, ...
Taiwan should raise the costs of home ownership scholar
Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Taiwan's government is considering revising a "luxury tax" on housing transactions to raise more revenue and further curb property speculation, but a Taiwanese scholar on Sunday proposed taking a different approach. Chuang Meng-han, a professor of industrial economics at Tamkang University, advised the government to raise the costs of owning second houses in ...
Civilian prosecutors to look into video issue in dead soldier case
Taipei, July 21 (CNA) The Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office will investigate a suspiciously blank section of a surveillance video that may have offered clues into an army conscript's death, the office said Sunday. The office said it would launch an investigation into allegations that Col. Chen Yi-ming gave an order to delete parts of the July 1 video to destroy key evidence, because ...
Talk of the Day -- Military in hot water
The Sunday editions of all local newspapers were dominated by the protest and vigil held Saturday over the death of Army Corporal Hung Chung-chiu, with Taiwan's only evening newspaper reporting on the possible impact of the scandal on the plan to turn Taiwan's military into an all-volunteer force. The following are excerpts on the story from the Sunday papers: United Evening News: ...
Earthquake strikes eastern Taiwan
Taipei, July 21 (CNA) An earthquake struck eastern Taiwan early Sunday, with no reports of casualties or damages thus far, reports the Central Weather Bureau. The magnitude 4.1 tremor, according to preliminary reports, occurred at 3:19 a.m. with the epicenter at 34.9 km north by west of Hualien City Hall and 9.3 km underground, reported the bureau. The shock was felt in eastern and northern ...
United Daily News Ma re-elected to head KMT amid rising discontent
Ma Ying-jeou was re-elected as chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) Saturday amid public outrage over the death of a conscript under suspicious circumstances and the Miaoli County government's forced demolition of four homes. Though Ma won more than 90 percent of the votes in a race in which he ran unopposed, both the president and KMT party members are well aware that the high percentage of ...
Panda cub Yuanzai has great appetite Taipei Zoo
Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Taipei Zoo's two-week-old panda cub, nicknamed "Yuanzai," has a great appetite, zoo officials said Sunday in its daily update on the panda cub's condition. When feeding time comes, zoo officials first wipe the panda cub's mouth and touch its mouth with the nipple of a baby bottle. Yuanzai, which cannot yet see, then starts greedily sucking the milk ...
Nauru disabled children to visit Taiwan
Taipei, July 21 (CNA) A group of disabled children and young adults from Nauru will visit Taiwan next week to learn about Taiwanese culture and meet with physically and mentally challenged Taiwanese, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the invitation of the ministry, the 10 residents of Nauru, who are visually impaired, hearing impaired or physically disabled, will visit Taiwan from ...
Taiwan wins 1 gold 3 silvers at International Biology Olympiad
Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Taiwan has won one gold medal and three silvers at the just-concluded International Biology Olympiad (IBO) in Bern, Switzerland, the Ministry of Education said Sunday. Lin Pin-cheng from National Taichung First Senior High School was the only gold medal winner of Taiwan's four-member team. The team's other three members -- Hsu Chia-an from Taipei Municipal Jianguo ...
Pro-independence groups defend textbook wording for Japanese rule
Japan ese rule" in high school history textbooks. The appeal came after three local publishers recently complained to lawmakers and the Control Yuan that their textbooks were rejected by a ministry textbook review committee because they referred to the colonial era as ...
Taipei by Tao Lin ? review
GChat -honed style of the American-Taiwanese writer Tao Lin signals suspicion not only of cliche but also the effort required to avoid it: the last line of his new novel, his British debut, both tugs the heartstrings and rolls the eyes when it tells us the main character "felt 'grateful to be ...
Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou re-elected KMT chairman
Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou was re-elected as chairman of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) in an uncontested election on Saturday.About 57.86 percent of the voters turned out in the election and Ma won 202,750 valid votes, or nearly 92 percent of the votes, according to the KMT Central Committee.Ma told reporters after the election that he would push for reform in his party during his tenure as KMT ...
Taiwan President re-elected ruling party chair amidst protests
Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeouwas on Saturday was again elected chairman of the ruling party almost unanimously, news agency STT reported quoting ...
Jiang backs service pact in meet with Kaohsiung locals
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Premier Jiang Yi-huah yesterday stressed that the cross-strait service pact is meant to boost Taiwanese businesses' competitiveness in the Chinese market, as he explained the benefits of the freshly signed trade agreement in a meeting with residents in ...
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