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EZ NEWS JANUARY 22, 2019

Posted on 2020-01-22 10:43:13

Premier Urges Calm After 2019-coronavirus Case Confirmed

Posted on 2020-01-22 10:43:13

Premier Su Tseng-chang is calling on the public to remain calm following
confirmation of Taiwan's first case of of the 2019-coronavirus.

According to the Premier, the government has 44-million surgical masks and
1.93-million N-95 particulate respirator masks that will be released onto the
market if necessary.

Su says the public should not hoard masks and the newly established
coronavirus epidemic response command center will be closely monitoring the
situation during the Lunar New Year holiday.

The call comes after health authorities announced that a Taiwanese woman who
works in the Chinese city of Wuhan has been placed in quarantine (隔離) here
in Taiwan after testing positive for the 2019-coronavirus.

Tsai Could Consider Meeting Xi on 'Equal Basis'

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President Tsai Ing-wen says she could consider meeting with Chinese President
Xi Jin-ping as long as the two met on an equal footing.

Speaking in an interview with SET News, Tsai said such a meeting would be
possible based the four principles she believes are needed to stabilize the
relationship across the Taiwan Strait.

Tsai's four principles are "peace," "parity(均勢)" "democracy" and "dialogue."

According to Tsai, her administration hopes cross-strait interactions will
take place based on such a foundation and will also consider any form of
interaction with Beijing based on those principles.

Beijing has responded to Tsai's four principles by reiterating its advocacy
of the "1992 consensus."

Ma Plays Food Delivery Driver in New Year Video

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And .....

Former President Ma Ying-jeou has posted a video on his Facebook page, in
which he's seen on a scooter delivering food and his souvenir couplets (對聯)
to people ahead of the Lunar New Year.

According to the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation, the video was produced as a joke
and is meant to be a humorous way for the former president to personally
extend his Lunar New year wishes to people.

However, the foundation says the food delivery service was real and Ma took
orders as they came in and made the deliveries.

Ma appeared as a clerk at a Taipei bookstore in 2019, in a similar Lunar New
Year video message.

US First Case of Wuhan Coronavirus

Posted on 2020-01-22 10:43:14

Health officials have confirmed the first U.S. case of a new coronavirus, in
a traveler returning from a visit to central China.

AP correspondent Jennifer King has more.

Canada Huawei CFO Trial

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Lawyers for a senior executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei argued that
allowing her extradition to the United States would result in Canada bowing
to foreign law.

This week's hearings deal with the question of whether the U.S. charges
against Meng Wanzhou are crimes in Canada as well.

Canada arrested Huawei's chief financial officer, the daughter of the
company's founder, in late 2018, and Beijing detained two Canadians in
apparent (似乎、無疑) retaliation.

Meng is free on bail and living in one of the two Vancouver mansions she
owns.

Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and Canadian entrepreneur Michael
Spavor have been detained in prison in China, and denied access to lawyers
and family.

EZ NEWS JANUARY 21, 2019

Posted on 2020-01-21 10:43:13

Hau Lung-bin Announces KMT Chair Bid

Posted on 2020-01-21 10:43:18

Former Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin says he plans to run for the post of K-M-T
chairman.

Hau annouced his bid to contest the party's leadership race in a Facebook
post.

And according to the former Taipei mayor, he will change the party's
constitution if elected to lead the K-M-T so that popularly elected (民選)
officials will be guaranteed seats in the party's decision-making bodies.

Hau says he'll ensure that younger party members be promoted to key
leadership roles and also establish a new cross-strait policy which will be
based on the result of dialogue, discussion and debate within the K-M-T.

Hau is the third person to announce his candidacy in the K-M-T's chairmanship
race.

The K-M-T is scheduled to elect a new chairperson on March 7.

Former Japanese Rep Voices Support for Taiwan CPTPP Bid

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A former Japanese representative to Taiwan is urging Tokyo to support
Taiwan's admission into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for
Trans-Pacific Partnership.

According to Tadashi Ikeda, a former chief representative of the Interchange
Association's Taipei Office, Taiwan is fully eligible to become a member due
its economic scale and geopolitical importance in the Taiwan Strait.

The free trade agreement is between Canada and 10 other countries in the
Asia-Pacific region.

And it arose (出) after U-S President Donald Trump pulled America out of its
predecessor, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, soon after he took office in
January 2017.

Deputy Foreign Minister Holds Talks with Marshall Islands President

Posted on 2020-01-21 10:43:18

Deputy Foreign Minister Hsu Si-jien has held talks with Marshall Islands
President David Kabua.

The talks took place after Hsu attended Kabua's inauguration ceremony - at
which he reaffirmed the two country's shared values and desire to deepen
bilateral relations.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kabua's inauguration was
attended by more than 300 foreign and local dignitaries, and Hsu conveyed
(傳達) Taiwan's congratulations to the Marshall Islands' new leader.

Kabua has pledged his support for continuing diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

US Senate Leader Calls for Speedy Impeachment Trial

Posted on 2020-01-21 10:43:18

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is calling for a speedy four-day
calendar for opening arguments (辯論) in President Trump's impeachment trial.

AP correspondent Jackie Quinn reports.

Nepal Missing Trekkers Search Continues

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Meanwhile....

The search continues for four South Korean trekkers and their three Nepali
guides missing since an avalanche swept across a mountain trekking (徒步旅行)
route .

The avalanche hit part of the Mount Annapurna trekking route on Friday after
heavy snowfall earlier in the week.

South Korea's foreign ministry said the missing trekkers are two women in
their 30s and 50s and two men in their 50s and are teachers who were staying
in Nepal for volunteer work.

Puerto Rico Protests Over Disaster Supplies

Posted on 2020-01-21 10:43:18

In Puerto Rico....

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the governor's mansion and Capitol
building to protest the recent discovery of apparently forgotten disaster
supplies amid continuing earthquakes.

Monday's protest came a day after the governor fired two more high-ranking
officials in her administration over the lack of information regarding aid
collection and distribution centers.

The governor said she had lost confidence in those officials after the
discovery of a warehouse in the southern coastal city of Ponce that was
filled with disaster supplies dating from when Hurricane Maria hit the island
in September 2017.

She ordered an investigation into the incident and said there would be no
prosecution of a crowd that broke into the warehouse Saturday to distribute
supplies to people affected by the recent 6.4 magnitude earthquake.

EZ NEWS JANUARY 20, 2019

Posted on 2020-01-20 10:46:13

Tai-Ex opening

Posted on 2020-01-20 10:46:13

The Tai-Ex opened up 17-points this morning from Friday's close, at 12,107 on
turnover of 1.8-billion N-T.

The Tai-Ex closed up on Friday, as Asian markets followed Wall Street higher
after China reported its 2019 economic growth and Washington and Beijing
signed an interim (臨時) trade agreement.

Section 1 of MRT Circular Line Likely to Open by End of January

Posted on 2020-01-20 10:46:13

New Taipei Mayor Hou You-yi says he's hoping the first section of the M-R-T's
Circular Line will officially begin operations before the end of this month.

The precise date for the line to open has yet to be decided.

And Hou says the date will finalized (確認、完成) when Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je
returns from Europe later this month and the Taipei and New Taipei City
governments can make a decision on an opening time.

The M-R-T's Circular Line began free trial runs on Sunday.

The new 15.4-kilometer line connects Da-Ping-Lin to the New Taipei Industrial
Park through Xindian, Zhonghe, Banqiao and Xinzhuang.

Wildfire Breaks Out on Taichung's Lishan

Posted on 2020-01-20 10:46:13

A forest fire that broke out in the mountainous area of Lishan in Taichung
has quickly spread to over 2.5-hectares of land.

According to the Dong-Shi Forest District Office, firefighters battled
problems on steep cliffs in the area where access to water is limited.

The first blaze was reported at 8AM on Sunday and firefighters were sent to
Chia-Yang forest area in Lishan.

A request was also made for aerial firefighting support - and two National
Airborne Service Corps Black Hawk helicopters were later deployed (調配) and
made 25 trips - dumping 50 tonnes of water from the De-Ji Reservoir on the
the wildfire site.

China Sharp Rise in Coronavirus Cases

Posted on 2020-01-20 10:46:14

China is reporting a sharp rise in the number of people affected in a
pneumonia outbreak (暴發) caused by a new coronoavirus, including the first
cases in the capital.

The outbreak started in the central city of Wuhan.

Authorities and media reports said the total number of infected people has
topped 200.

Wuhan authorities said a third person had died in their city, and 136 new
cases have been confirmed, bringing the total in the city to 198.

Authorities in Shenzhan in southern China reported one case, and Chinese
state media said Beijing had reported two cases.

US Trump Impeachment Continues

Posted on 2020-01-20 10:46:14

Both sides filed briefs over the weekend in the lead up to Tuesday's
impeachment trial.

AP correspondent Shelley Adler reports.

Paraguay Prison Escape

Posted on 2020-01-20 10:46:14

At least 75 inmates escaped from a Paraguayan prison in a border town on
Sunday.

Officials said they discovered a tunnel and found cells filled with as many
as 200 bags of earth.

Paraguya's interior minister says the tunnel itself may have been a ruse
(詭計) to cover complicity (共謀) by prison officials and that many of the
inmates may have been allowed to walk out of the prison's main gate.

The majority of the escapees belong to a criminal gang based in Brazil.

Brazilian authorities said 40 of the escapees were Brazilian, and said they
had passed their names and photos to border police.

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