Taiwan?s pro-China policies under Ma have benefitted neither its economy nor its people

The China Post - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

The China Post - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

The China Post - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

The China Post - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Global Times - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Taiwan News Online - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

The Guardian - Sunday 21st July, 2013

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

Global Times - Saturday 20th July, 2013

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

Finland Times - Saturday 20th July, 2013

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

The China Post - Saturday 20th July, 2013

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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NCAA rejects claims in concussion lawsuit

CHICAGO (AP) ? Rejecting claims made in a lawsuit concerning concussions, the NCAA said Saturday it has taken steps to protect student athletes from head injuries and that player safety is among the college sports association's core principles.

Attorneys suing the NCAA over its handling of head injuries asked a federal judge Friday to let them expand the lawsuit to include thousands of plaintiffs nationwide. The motion seeking class-action status was filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, where the original lawsuit was filed in 2011 on behalf of former Eastern Illinois football player Adrian Arrington and several other former athletes.

"Student-athlete safety is one of the NCAA's foundational principles," said spokeswoman Stacey Osburn. "The NCAA has been at the forefront of safety issues throughout its existence."

She said the association has addressed the issue of head injuries through a combination of playing rules, equipment requirements and medical practices. The NCAA does not believe the legal action is appropriate, Osburn said.

Concussions have become a major concern in sports in recent years. The NFL, NHL and college football, among others, have implemented stricter rules on hits to the head and player safety. The NFL is involved in a lawsuit involving more than 4,000 former players seeking millions of dollars for problems they blame on head injuries suffered during their careers.

Attached to the class-action request from those suing the NCAA is a report for the plaintiffs by a leading authority on concussions, Robert Cantu, who cites an internal NCAA survey from 2010. He said the NCAA found that nearly half of the college trainers who responded to the survey indicated they put athletes showing signs of a concussion back into the same game.

"It is well settled in the scientific community that an athlete must never be returned to play on the same day after a concussion diagnosis," said Cantu, who is medical director of the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research in Chapel Hill, N.C.

The plaintiffs say the NCAA was lax in establishing a clear policy about dealing with concussions, leaving key decisions to individual schools or leagues.

Arrington contends he suffered "numerous and repeated concussions" at Eastern Illinois. He is seeking unspecified monetary damages and changes in policy, including the establishment of a long-term medical monitoring program for injured athletes and new concussion guidelines for schools and coaches.

The NCAA said it has taken recent steps to increase awareness of how to treat possible head injuries, from legislation and outreach efforts to new rules on the playing field. On Friday, the NCAA said it was awarding a $399,999 grant to fund a study into the long-term effects of head injuries in college sports.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ncaa-rejects-claims-concussion-lawsuit-185437344.html

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Sark School and Community Centre to be fitted with solar energy panels

SOLAR energy panels can now be fitted on the roof of the Sark School and Community Centre.

The Development Control Committee has passed an Island Hall Trustees application for photovoltaic cells to be installed on the south-east and south-west of the building.

Trustee Brian Garrard said the group could now get on with planning the project in more detail.

It is hoped the panels would help save money spent on electricity.

?We had a meeting and discussed this possible option,? he said.

?The Island Hall has a huge roof and it seemed like a good idea to make use of the opportunity.

?We had to wait for planning permission and that was approved by the committee last week.

?The prime consideration was the reduced cost.

?The price of electricity on Sark is very high and this would dramatically reduce this cost.?

He said the project was still in its infancy and the trustees would have to meet again to discuss how they would take it forward.

?We can?t tell yet how much it is going to cost,? said Mr Garrard.

?The Island Hall Trustees will be paying for it but it might be that it is self-financing.?

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A warning from Health Canada for men

_News Talk 770
7/20/2013

Those taking what they believe to be natural health products to let's say...put a spring in their step...should know about some warning from Health Canada. Three natural and one unauthorized...health products promoted as male sexual stimulants were recently tested and found to contain hidden ingredients which may pose a health risk to Canadians and particularly to those with heart issues. The products are called Innerget Instant Erection, Innerget Prolonged Performance, Innerget Everlasting Strength and Megaton 2080 have been marketed across Canada.?Health Canada says some of the hidden ingredients in the products are prescription medications that should only be prescribed by a physician. Anyone who has used or been affected by these products is asked to consult with their healthcare provider and report any adverse reaction to Health Canada. Health Canada has put a halt on the sale of these products.

Source: http://www.newstalk770.com/News/Local/Story.aspx?ID=2009370

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[Baseball] Top 10 of 2012-13 ? #5 ? Coe baseball sweeps #18 Wartburg on Senior Day

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Kurdish-Islamist fighting spreads to Syrian oil fields

By Erika Solomon and Jonathon Burch

BEIRUT/ANKARA | Thu Jul 18, 2013 10:40am EDT

BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Kurdish fighters have seized control of a Syrian town on the border with Turkey and are battling Islamist rebel groups linked to al Qaeda for control of oilfields in the northeast of the country.

The fighting is further evidence that the conflict between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces that has engulfed Syria since early 2011 has splintered into turf wars that have little to do with ousting him.

In southern Syria, attacks by rebels on gas and fuel pipelines that supply power stations caused widespread electricity outages, Syria's official news agency said.

Across the border in Jordan, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visited a refugee camp and was told by angry Syrians that the United States should set up a no-fly zone and safe havens in Syria to protect them.

The capture of Ras al-Ain by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a Syrian Kurdish party with links to Kurdish militants in Turkey, rang alarm bells in Ankara.

The Turkish government fears the emergence of an autonomous Kurdish region in Syria could embolden home-grown militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is fighting for autonomy in Turkey.

In a statement late on Wednesday, the Turkish military said Ras al-Ain had fallen under the control of the PYD, which it described as a "separatist terrorist organization". Fighting in the town had now stopped.

Turkish troops had shot at PYD fighters in Syria after two rocket-propelled grenades fired from Syria struck a border post on the Turkish side of the frontier.

It was the second time in as many days the military has answered in kind after several stray bullets from Syria struck the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar on Tuesday. The military has now strengthened security along that part of the border.

FIGHTING SPREADS

Clashes in Ras al-Ain between Kurdish militias, who broadly support an autonomous Kurdish region, and Islamist fighters of the Nusra Front broke out on Tuesday after Nusra fighters attacked a Kurdish patrol and captured a gunman, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The Observatory, a pro-opposition monitoring group, said fighting had now spread deeper into the largely Kurdish province of Hassakeh and battles were raging around the Rumeilan oil field, about 200 km (125 miles) east of Ras al-Ain.

The field had mostly been shut down, opposition activists said, but a few of its pipelines may still be supplying refineries in the government-held cities of Homs and Baniyas.

Since March 2011, when the uprising against Assad began, Syria's overall oil production has fallen by nearly 60 percent to 153,000 barrels per day last October, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates.

The Observatory said at least 29 people had been killed since fighting between Islamists and Kurds erupted on Tuesday.

Kurdish units have seized an oil field area called Suwaidiya 20 and there are clashes in Suwaidiya oil region 3, according to the Observatory.

It said the Nusra Front and others al Qaeda-linked fighters were shelling Ras al-Ain from nearby positions

"Part of the reason for the spread is just anger at the Kurdish consolidation of control in Ras al-Ain, it's like revenge and punishment," said one activist who works with the rebels and who asked not to be named.

GROWING STRUGGLE

"But I also believe there this is part of a growing struggle for control of oil and gas in the region and the rebels are using this as an opportunity."

Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for the Kurdish PYD, said the Kurds would fight back to maintain the autonomous zone they had set up in the area.

"We fought hard to drive out the repressive regime and its army and we liberated the area from oppression. We will not allow either regime control or these al Qaeda-linked groups.

"What is pushing them to fight us is their antagonism against our autonomous rule in Kurdish areas. I believe their other goal is Rumeilan because it is an important oil resource."

The fighting indicated the collapse of a deal, negotiated by prominent Syrian opposition leader Michel Kilo, under which both sides in the area had cooperated peacefully for months.

Visiting a camp that holds 115,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan near the Syrian border, Kerry heard refugees vent their anger at the world's failure to end a war that has claimed more than 90,000 lives.

He told them Washington was considering various options, including buffer zones for their protection, but that the situation was complex and much was still under consideration.

"What are you waiting for?" a Syrian woman, who did not give her name, asked Kerry at the United Nations' Zaatari refugee camp. "At least impose a no-fly zone or an embargo."

In London, sources told Reuters that Britain had abandoned plans to arm the rebels and now believed Assad might survive in office for years.

The sources also said a peace conference to try to end the conflict might not happen until next year if at all.

"Britain is clearly not going to arm the rebels in any way, shape or form," said one source.

The reason for the shift was the largely hostile public opinion and fears that any weapons supplied could fall into the hands of Islamists.

"It will train them, give them tactical advice and intelligence, teach them command and control. But public opinion, like it or not, is against intervention," the source said.

In southern Syria, the Observatory reported heavy shelling in the Damascus countryside. There were also further shelling of the city of Homs, where fighting has raged for the past three weeks. Clashes erupted in the towns of Deraa and Quneitra in southern Syria, the Observatory said.

(Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed in Jordan; Anfrew Osborn, Guy Faulconbridge and Paul Taylor in London,; Writing by Giles Elgood, Editing by Angus MacSwan)

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