The changes in the personal data protection act will require reporters to first notify and gain approval from the person or persons written about before any article may be published. It also proposes to expand the definition of "personal data" from mostly electronically-transmitted information to include most forms of identification.
Taiwan News
Taipei Times
Friday 23 April 2010
Thursday 22 April 2010
ECFA Televised Debate
On Sunday April 25th, at 2pm, DPP Chair Chai-Ing-Wen will debate the President and KMT Chair Ma Ing-Jeou regarding the so-called "Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement", the central concern of the KMT since the party took office in May 2008. China and the KMT are poised to sign the framework in June.
The televised event is heartily anticipated, as no information on what the agreement entails has been released to the Taiwanese public, and the ECFA's name has changed rapidly over the course of the last year-and-a-half as the population of Taiwan consistently opposes it.
Since early April, the DPP has requested the ECFA documents to serve as a contextual basis for the debate- and a review of the resulting packet sent from the KMT last week reveals only that there is no actual "file" processing through the legislative body. The ECFA is somehow progressing without regard for even the branches of goverment.
What Taiwan sees is the way the KMT handles Taiwan's possible future: deferring to China. Recently, Taiwanese Tseng Yani, the LPGA Rookie of the Year in 2008 and champion of the Kraft Nabisco Championship on April 4 2010, was sponsored by a Chinese company on April 18th. Local media in Taiwan was surprisingly antagonised by the move, wondering if it wasn't a "taking of Taiwanese talent".
The televised event is heartily anticipated, as no information on what the agreement entails has been released to the Taiwanese public, and the ECFA's name has changed rapidly over the course of the last year-and-a-half as the population of Taiwan consistently opposes it.
Since early April, the DPP has requested the ECFA documents to serve as a contextual basis for the debate- and a review of the resulting packet sent from the KMT last week reveals only that there is no actual "file" processing through the legislative body. The ECFA is somehow progressing without regard for even the branches of goverment.
What Taiwan sees is the way the KMT handles Taiwan's possible future: deferring to China. Recently, Taiwanese Tseng Yani, the LPGA Rookie of the Year in 2008 and champion of the Kraft Nabisco Championship on April 4 2010, was sponsored by a Chinese company on April 18th. Local media in Taiwan was surprisingly antagonised by the move, wondering if it wasn't a "taking of Taiwanese talent".
China's Next Crop
Chinese education is negotiating with a few KMT politicians in Taiwan to allow Chinese students to enter Taiwan's universities and system of higher education.
The "students" are not let out of China until they are first trained in Mao doctrine, Marxism, English, and Politics, and profess to adhere to Mao's Communism.
The DPP legislators swiftly opposed the KMT-authored bill giving such students access to Taiwan for 28 years (each), denouncing the KMT orator as "selling Taiwan". KMT legislators (outnumbering the DPP legislators) rushed to begin the legislative meeting and pass the bill before the normal recording devices were turned on, but with the press cameras and microphones present, the ensuing fracas resulted in a halt on the bill as the hurriedly opened meeting was announced void.
The "students" are not let out of China until they are first trained in Mao doctrine, Marxism, English, and Politics, and profess to adhere to Mao's Communism.
The DPP legislators swiftly opposed the KMT-authored bill giving such students access to Taiwan for 28 years (each), denouncing the KMT orator as "selling Taiwan". KMT legislators (outnumbering the DPP legislators) rushed to begin the legislative meeting and pass the bill before the normal recording devices were turned on, but with the press cameras and microphones present, the ensuing fracas resulted in a halt on the bill as the hurriedly opened meeting was announced void.
2000 Taiwanese In Europe
2,000 Taiwanese citizens remain stranded in European airports after the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull erupted on April 14th, until China Airlines was able to resume flights from Rome to Taipei on April 20th.
A Taiwanese man said he "wanted to kiss the ground of Taiwan" upon his arrival at Taoyuan International Airport in Taipei.
The thick cloud of debris ash and dust are a flight hazard; the renegade particles may settle into plane engines and endanger the mechanical functions during flight.
Iceland's volcanic eruptions cancelled all flights to and from the European continent, leaving travelers to scramble for bus tickets and face the rising prices of any means of travel.
The volcanic eruptions are continuing, although less ash is being released.
A Taiwanese man said he "wanted to kiss the ground of Taiwan" upon his arrival at Taoyuan International Airport in Taipei.
The thick cloud of debris ash and dust are a flight hazard; the renegade particles may settle into plane engines and endanger the mechanical functions during flight.
Iceland's volcanic eruptions cancelled all flights to and from the European continent, leaving travelers to scramble for bus tickets and face the rising prices of any means of travel.
The volcanic eruptions are continuing, although less ash is being released.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
