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Posted: 02 May 2020 03:00 PM PDT
Focus Taiwan
Date: 05/02/2020 By: Kay Liu  Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League opened its 2020 season on April 12, with all games played behind closed doors to adhere to the government's social distancing guidelines due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Despite the empty stands, the four teams playing in the league found an online audience, broadcast in English, at a time when most professional sports events around the world have been disrupted or even scrapped altogether. In addition to the games themselves, the teams' responses to the empty stands, including planting cardboard cutouts imitating fans, as well as the actions of their cheerleading squads, all caught attention, both at home and abroad. The Taoyuan-based Rakuten Monkeys first came up with the idea of filling the empty stands with cardboard cutouts and mannequins to imitate the presence of fans. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 02 May 2020 02:54 PM PDT
Taipei Times
Date: May 03, 2020 By: Grant Dexter / Staff reporter 
The Taiwan Dragons’ Adam Hopkins, center, plays a big shot during their Taipei T10 League cricket match against the Hsinchu Titans at the Yingfeng Cricket Ground yesterday.
Photo courtesy of Priya Purswaney The Dragons upset the Hsinchu Titans with some strong hitting after being sent in to bat in the first match on the third day of competition. Rishi Josula clattered 43 runs with four fours and three sixes in just 22 deliveries to set a batting standard that was not bettered at the Yingeng Cricket Ground yesterday. He and Adam Hopkins (23) put on 58 for the second wicket after opener Athula Senadeera contributed 16 from 10. The partnership took the Dragons to 112, the highest team total of the super-short-format tournament so far. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 02 May 2020 02:50 PM PDT
Light Reading
Date: 5/1/2020 By: Riobert Clark Taiwan's telcos are feeling some of the pain of the coronavirus, but the impending arrival of 5G could be a bigger disruption. Market leader Chunghwa Telecom posted a modest Q1 result Thursday, with earnings off 0.4% to NT$8.3 billion (US$280 million) and total revenue 6.2% lower at NT$48.2 billion ($1.61 billion). President and CFO Harrison Kuo said the pandemic had slowed down overall economic activity and cut Chunghwa's enterprise and international roaming revenue. Mobile revenue was down 7.9% to NT$22.5 billion ($754 million), which he attributed to the fall in handset sales from COVID-19 and higher market competition, including OTT providers. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 02 May 2020 02:45 PM PDT
Tech company stands accused of invasive tracking of its users' habits
Taiwan News Date: 2020/05/02 By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer 
A Xiaomi store in Beijing (AP photo)
According to a report by Forbes Magazine, a cybersecurity expert found that a large amount of his data and online behavior using a Redmi Note 8 smartphone were being harvested, tracked, and sent to a remote server, while connections could be made between the individual user and the data collected. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 02 May 2020 02:39 PM PDT
Focus Taiwan
Date: 05/02/2020 By: Pan Tzu-yu and Frances Huang Taipei, May 2 (CNA) The local manufacturing sector continued to feel the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic with an index gauging the health of the sector flashing a "yellow-blue" in March, signaling sluggish growth, according to the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER). Data compiled by TIER showed the composite index for the manufacturing sector in March fell 1.73 points from a month earlier to 11.03, with the yellow-blue light category ranging from 10.5 to 13. TIER, one of Taiwan's leading think tanks, uses a five-color system to describe economic activity, with red indicating overheating, yellow-red showing fast growth, green representing stable growth, yellow-blue signaling sluggish growth and blue reflecting contraction. The think tank said the worldwide spread of the virus has weakened global demand and caused international crude oil prices to plunge, so major old economy industries such as petrochemicals, rubber, base metals and machinery makers generally flashed a blue light in March. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 02 May 2020 12:52 PM PDT
Daily Mail
Date: 2 May 2020 By: AFP 
Relations between the UN and Taiwan were strained long before the coronavirus pandemic but have deteriorated in the past three months
Beijing's diplomatic mission to the UN expressed "strong outrage and firm opposition" to a message on Friday by the United States calling Taiwan's exclusion an "affront" to UN principles. The self-ruled island, which Beijing considers a wayward province awaiting reunification, has been held up as a model in fighting the virus. Fewer than 500 cases have been detected in Taiwan despite its proximity to the Chinese mainland where the outbreak began. "Barring #Taiwan from setting foot on UN grounds is an affront not just to the proud Taïwanese people, but to UN principles," the tweet by the US mission said. US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft retweeted the message. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 02 May 2020 12:48 PM PDT
INQUIRER.net
Date: May 02, 2020 By:: Consuelo Marquez – Reporter / @CMarquezINQ 
Sen. Franklin Drilon. PRIB Photo
“Unang-una, ako ay dating labor secretary, ang tungkulin lang ng labor attaché ay iisa: para proteksyunan ang ating mga kababayan sa ibang dagat,” he told DWIZ when asked about Macauyag’s actions against the Filipina, who works as a caregiver in Taiwan. (First, I was a former Labor Secretary, the role of a labor attaché is this: to protect our citizens overseas.) “Sa akin (For me), this labor attaché in Taiwan violated all norms of decency ng sinabi niyang i-deport itong kababayan natin (when he said this fellow Filipino of ours must be deported),” he added. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 02 May 2020 12:43 PM PDT
Taiwanese spouses main reason for changing nationality
Taiwan News Date: 2020/05/02 By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer 
File photo of Vietnamese women in Taiwan (CNA photo)
A total proportion of 86.1 percent mentioned their spouse was Taiwanese as the reason for their change of nationality, with 3.84 percent children of a Taiwanese parent, CNA reported. The total amounted to a drop of 114 compared to the year 2018. While more than half the new Taiwanese, or 2,325, came from Vietnam, their number fell by 152 compared to the previous year, the largest reduction for any nationality, the data showed. The Vietnamese were followed by the Filipinos, with 362 acquiring a Taiwanese passport, and the Indonesians, totaling 350. Southeast Asians occupied a share of 95.84 percent or 3,295 people of all those becoming Taiwanese last year. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 02 May 2020 12:40 PM PDT
Focus Taiwan
Date: 05/02/2020 By: Wang Chao-yu and Lee Hsin-Yin 
Photo courtesy of the Keelung City government
The 20-year-old, weak and undernourished dolphin is in a more stable condition than Friday afternoon, when it was found near Taoyuan by members of the public and sent to Keelung, according to Keelung City official Tsai Fu-ning (蔡馥嚀). The 2-meter-long dolphin was found swimming in circles about 15 meters from the coast in Dayuan District and became stranded, according to Kuo Hsiang-hsia (郭祥廈) from the Taiwan Cetacean Society. It was lethargic at the time but breathing normally, Kuo said. The society has recruited volunteers to take care of the dolphin over the weekend. [FULL STORY]  |
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Posted: 02 May 2020 12:37 PM PDT
PUBLIC SAFETY: Wan Mei-ling said that lengthy compulsory treatment would deter people from ‘faking a mental illness’ to avoid stiff punishment for crimes they commit
Taipei Times Date: May 03, 2020 By: Chen Yun / Staff reporter 
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Yeh Yu-lan speaks at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on Friday in front of a sign that reads: “Preparing for danger in times of peace is the only way to avoid disaster and hardship.”
Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times Wan said that she drafted the bill after the Chiayi District Court on Thursday found a 55-year-old man surnamed Cheng (鄭) not guilty of the murder of police officer Lee Cheng-han (李承翰), to “prevent mental illnesses from becoming pretexts for committing felonies.” The ruling did not meet the public’s expectations, which proves that the Criminal Code needs to be amended, she said. Five years of treatment might suffice for offenders with mild mental illnesses, but would not be enough for those who commit a serious crime, she added. [FULL STORY]  |
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