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Posted: 01 Apr 2020 07:38 PM PDT
Taiwan’s CPBL to open April 11 without live audience for first time in history
Taiwan News Date: 2020/04/01 By: Ching-Tse Cheng, Taiwan News, Staff Writer 
Taiwan’s CPBL to open without spectators April 11. (CNA photo)
Following a virtual meeting between CPBL executives, the league said that the new season will open as originally scheduled, but no fans will be allowed into the ballparks until the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is over. According to CNA, the CPBL will become the first pro baseball league in the world to open its season since the outbreak began in December. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2020 07:33 PM PDT
Taiwan News
Date: 2020/04/01 By: Central News Agency  The government plans to provide NT$1.05 trillion (US$34.64 billion) in two phases of an economic relief package to provide emergency aid to businesses and individuals hit by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said Wednesday. The size of the package is expected to reach the NT$1.05 trillion figure after an estimated NT$150 billion is added to the package in the second phase, Tsai said in a speech on the government's response measures relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first phase, the government has allocated a NT$60 billion special budget to help fund industries affected by the pandemic and to provide an additional NT$40 billion sourced from government budgets and funds, such as the Employment Security Fund and the Tourism Development Fund, toward emergency relief and economic stimulus measures, according to Tsai. Meanwhile, the first phase of the emergency relief package also includes nearly NT$350 billion in loans for businesses, she added. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2020 07:30 PM PDT
Focus Taiwan
Date: 04/01/2020 By: Frances Huang Taipei, April 1 (CNA) Shares in Taiwan moved lower Wednesday to close below 9,700 points, as investors grew more cautious about the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus during the upcoming Tomb Sweeping Festival, dealers said. Selling was seen across the board in most sectors, led by contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the most heavily weighted stock on the local market, as investors were seeking to hold onto cash due to the global uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, dealers said. The weighted index on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Taiex) ended down 44.43 points, or 0.46 percent, at the day's low of 9,663.63, after coming off a high of 9,736.00. Turnover totaled NT$117.37 billion (US$3.88 billion) during the session. The market opened up 0.19 percent on follow-through buying from the previous session, when the Taiex closed up 0.82 percent, but it soon fell into see-saw trading for most of the session, dealers said. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2020 07:26 PM PDT
UNEXPECTED: The increase was tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, as the outbreak disrupted work in China and delayed shipments, the vice president of CIER said
Taipei Times Date: Apr 02, 2020 By: Crystal Hsu / Staff reporter The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) held surprisingly strong at 53.1 last month, as inventory demand bolstered suppliers of electronics and optical products, the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER, 中華經濟研究院) said yesterday. However, firms were downbeat about business in the next six months, as the COVID-19 pandemic is spreading in Europe and the US, hurting demand for exports, the Taipei-based think tank said in a survey. Last month’s PMI reading rose 0.4 percentage points from a month earlier, as firms in the electronics, transportation and biotechnology sectors reported an improvement in business, while those selling food products, machinery equipment and basic raw materials reported negative cyclical movements, it said. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2020 07:22 PM PDT
Radio Taiwan International
Date: 01 April, 2020 By: John Van Trieste 
Health Minister Chen Shih-chung announces that Taiwan has confirmed seven more cases of COVID-19.
At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said that all seven of the new cases are imported. The patients in six cases had recently traveled to the US, while the patient in the seventh case had recently been to the UK. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2020 07:17 PM PDT
PBS
Date: Apr 1, 2020 By: Nick Schifrin  As the coronavirus pandemic spreads around the world, Taiwan seems to have it under control. The island is only 80 miles off the coast of mainland China and very near to where the virus originated; plus there were many daily flights to it from Wuhan. But Taiwan has only 329 confirmed cases of COVID-19, and only five people have died from it. Nick Schifrin reports on this COVID-19 success story. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2020 07:11 PM PDT
Taiwan premier says China's insistence on changing coronavirus name shows lack of confidence
Taiwan News Date: 2020/04/01 By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer 
Premier Su Tseng-chang. (CNA photo)
During an interpellation session of the Legislative Yuan on Tuesday (March 31), Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Tsai Yi-yu (蔡易餘) sought Su's opinion on communist China's policy of not allowing "Wuhan" to be used in descriptions of COVID-10 and other attempts to salvage its image amidst the global catastrophe. Su responded by saying the coronavirus outbreak started in Wuhan, China, and therefore it should be called "Wuhan pneumonia," and that demanding the world to change the name shows that China lacks confidence in itself, reported Liberty Times. Tsai said that China is seeking to whitewash its gross mismanagement of the coronavirus epidemic by claiming that terms such as "Wuhan coronavirus" and "Wuhan virus" are racist, while having World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom praise China's every move. Tsai pointed out that Tedros even lauded the communist country as having "bought the world time." Su agreed with Tsai's assessment and said that it was a fact that the disease started in Wuhan, so the world has given it the name Wuhan pneumonia. He noted that many major infectious diseases take their names from their place of origin, such as German measles, Japanese encephalitis, and Hong Kong foot (Taiwanese Mandarin term for athlete's foot), but because China does not have any confidence in itself, it behaves in this way. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2020 07:06 PM PDT
Focus Taiwan
Date: 04/01/2020 By: Joseph Yeh 
Weng Jen-hsien (center), CNA file photo
Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang (蔡清祥) said he signed the order, and the death sentence was carried out Wednesday afternoon in New Taipei. The 53-year-old inmate Weng Jen-hsien (翁仁賢) was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court on July 10, 2019 after he was convicted in the deaths of his parents, their caregiver, his niece and nephew, and the latter's wife. According to the court, Weng set fire to his home in Taoyuan City's Longtan District on Feb. 7, 2016 after a family feud, and the six died in the blaze, while four other relatives sustained injuries. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2020 06:46 PM PDT
PRESIDENTIAL CITATION: The former premier had said he would never accept a certificate of recognition for his service from a DPP administration, a friend said
Taipei Times Date: Apr 02, 2020 By: William Hetherington / Staff writer, with CNA 
Manuscripts written by former premier Hau Pei-tsun, who died on Monday, lie on a desk in his office in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: CNA  Honoring former premier and chief of the general staff Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村), who passed away on Monday, with a presidential citation is proper, as he had made great contributions to the nation, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday. Hau served as premier under then-president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) from 1990 to 1993, athough the two belonged to different Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) factions, with Lee leaning toward localization and democratization. Hau’s contributions were especially important during the 823 Artillery Bombardment — the bombardment of Kinmen by China’s People’s Liberation Army on Aug. 23, 1958 — and so “conferring an official certificate of recognition upon him is proper and a matter of course,” Tsai said. Former Taipei mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌), one of the former premier’s sons, said in a statement released by his office on Monday that the family was opening to discussing such a citation if contacted by the Presidential Office. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 01 Apr 2020 06:40 PM PDT
Radio Taiwan International
Date: 01 April, 2020 By: Paula Chao A WHO official caused a stir after evading a question about Taiwan’s membership in the global health body. In an interview with RTHK, Assistant Director-General Bruce Aylward appeared to evade the question and hang up. In today’s show, find out how Taiwan responded, and why the WHO needs Taiwan. [FULL STORY  |
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