Fewer Taiwan Companies Plan to Give Raises This Year: Poll
A survey released Monday says fewer Taiwan companies are planning to give their employees a raise this year than a year ago despite the improving economy. The survey from Taipei-based 1111 Job Bank found that 55 percent of polled companies plan to give employees raises in 2014. This is 9 percentage points lower than numbers...Continue reading
NBA’s Jeremy Lin Coaches Kids’ Basketball Camp in Taipei
The NBA’s Jeremy Lin hosted a basketball camp in Taipei Sunday – where he coached students from two elementary schools and several young players who won Taiwan’s Youth Basketball Championship last year. Lin, who was recently traded by the Houston Rockets to the Los Angeles Lakers, spent one hour as a special coach with the...Continue reading
LA Lakers’ Jeremy Lin Arrives in Taiwan for Week-Long Visit
Jeremy Lin arrived in Taipei last night for a week-long visit – a day later than initially planned due to his having to sign a contract after his transfer to the LA Lakers from the Houston Rockets. The 25-year-old point guard is slated to attend two promotional events hosted by Adidas, his new sponsor, and...Continue reading
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Ranks 18th in World Airport Awards
Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport has been named the 18th best airport worldwide in the World Airport Awards – up six places from last year. It was the airport’s best performance in the annual awards, following its rankings of 24th and 29th in the past two years, respectively. According to the airport operators, the improved ranking...Continue reading
Century-old Sunken Ship Discovered Off Green Island
Researchers are working to determine if a sunken ship discovered off Taiwan’s Green Island is a legendary Dutch ship that locals say ran aground there in the 19th century. The shipwreck appears to be the remains of a wooden vessel from the West dating to at least 100 years ago, according to Tsang Cheng-hwa, an...Continue reading
Eco Film Festival to be held in Taiwan Starting Today
An annual eco film festival will hold more than 5,200 screenings of documentaries around Taiwan starting today, to promote the importance of ecological conservation. The Forestry Bureau, which is jointly organizing the festival with the National Central Library, made the announcement Monday. The festival, to run until October 19, will screen 40 documentaries about Taiwan’s...Continue reading
Taipei Temperature Hits Year’s High at 37.8 Degrees
The temperature in Taipei set a new high for this year when the mercury hit 37.8 degrees at 12:15 PM Sunday due to a strong high pressure system over the Pacific. The previous record of 37.6 degrees was set on July 9th. In neighboring New Taipei’s Banqiao District and Keelung City, temperature also soared to...Continue reading
ICRT Pays Tribute to Bill Thissen, Former Newscaster and Host of Jazz Flavors
Bill Thissen – a former ICRT newscaster and the host of Jazz Flavors, Taiwan’s longest running radio jazz show – died Saturday at Taipei Veterans General Hospital in the capital. He was 72. Bill worked for ICRT at its various locations for 29 years until his retirement in 2013. For nearly three decades, Bill was...Continue reading
French Director Luc Besson Explains Lucy Location Choice, Praises Taiwan
French director Luc Besson said in a behind-the-scenes report Thursday that he fell in love with Taipei 10 years ago when he was promoting his film The Fifth Element and decided to pick the city as the location for his new action thriller Lucy. Besson made the comments in an exclusive, 110-second behind-the-scenes preview of...Continue reading
Temperatures Hit Year’s High in Taitung
Temperatures in Taitung County’s Da-Wu Township soared to 38.3 degrees yesterday — the highest recorded anywhere islandwide so far this year. The Central Weather Bureau says the high was recorded at 11:41 AM and was due to a Foehn wind – that being warm and dry gusts that descend the sheltered side of mountains into...Continue reading
Peanut Butter Samples May Be Contaminated
The Consumers’ Foundation yesterday said 50 percent of sampled peanut butter was found to contain aflatoxin – a substance that can be harmful to humans over long-term consumption. According to the foundation, the amount of aflatoxin found in the test samples did not exceed the 15-parts per billion legal limit. However, the consumer watchdog is...Continue reading
Dancing Twins Zony and Yony to Release Album, DVD and Book
Six year-old twins Zony and Yony are set to release an album, a DVD and a book. They have also filmed a music video, which features the elementary age-twins playing on Fulong beach and writing calligraphy at Tainan’s Confucius Temple. Zony and Yony made headlines in Taiwan in February, after a video of them wearing...Continue reading
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