VIEW THIS PAGE CTOT encourages Canadians to vote
The Canadian Trade Office in Taipei (CTOT) is encouraging all Canadian citizens living in Taiwan to vote by mail in the 40th Canadian Federal Election, which will take place on Oct. 14. CTOT said that any qualified Canadian voter can vote from anywhere in the world by using a special mail-in ballot. Application forms are available at www.elections.ca or at CTOT (13F, 365 Fuxing N Rd, Taipei) during regular office hours. “If you are a Canadian living in Taiwan, visit the Elections Canada Web site or come to CTOT and see how easy it is to be part of Canada’s democratic process,” the CTOT said in a press release. “Your vote will allow your voice to be heard and will help choose Canada’s next government.” For more information, contact the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei: (02) 2544-3000.
Chunghwa suspends express service to 16 countries
Starting tomorrow, the Chunghwa Post (中華郵政) will suspend its international express delivery service to 16 countries around the world. The service guarantees that a package will arrive in any designated country in four to five days. The nation’s largest postal company said last week that it has to stop offering this service because it cannot meet the requirement. The main reasons cited are less frequent flights to these countries, as well as the different mail processing times they set. The 16 countries are Barbados, Nauru, Benin, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.
Carnegies to hold Obama happy hour on Friday
Carnegies in Taipei is hosting supporters of US presidential candidate Democratic Senator Barack Obama to attend an Obama happy hour on Friday at 6pm. Carnegies’ address is 100 Anhe Rd, Sec 2 (near the Far Eastern Hotel). For planning purposes, the organizer asks that those who wish to take part in the event send an e-mail to democratsabroadtaiwan@gmail.com to register the number of people attending. For Obama fans down south, the Baracktoberfest will be held on Saturday at Join-Us, located next to the Kaohsiung Railway station, for NT$250 person. For a map of the location and details, visit baracktoberfest.site40.net. The events will be great opportunities to meet other supporters of Obama in Taiwan and find out the latest updates about his campaign.
Taiwan’s Lee Chia-hao (李佳豪) on Sunday won a silver medal at the All England Open Badminton Championships in Birmingham, England, a career best. Lee, 25, took silver in the final of the men’s singles against world No. 1 Shi Yuqi (石宇奇) of China, who won 21-17, 21-19 in a tough match that lasted 51 minutes. After the match, the Taiwanese player, who ranks No. 22 in the world, said it felt unreal to be challenging an opponent of Shi’s caliber. “I had to be in peak form, and constantly switch my rhythm and tactics in order to score points effectively,” he said. Lee got
EMBRACING TAIWAN: US lawmakers have introduced an act aiming to replace the use of ‘Chinese Taipei’ with ‘Taiwan’ across all Washington’s federal agencies A group of US House of Representatives lawmakers has introduced legislation to replace the term “Chinese Taipei” with “Taiwan” across all federal agencies. US Representative Byron Donalds announced the introduction of the “America supports Taiwan act,” which would mandate federal agencies adopt “Taiwan” in place of “Chinese Taipei,” a news release on his page on the US House of Representatives’ Web site said. US representatives Mike Collins, Barry Moore and Tom Tiffany are cosponsors of the legislation, US political newspaper The Hill reported yesterday. “The legislation is a push to normalize the position of Taiwan as an autonomous country, although the official US
CHANGE OF TONE: G7 foreign ministers dropped past reassurances that there is no change in the position of the G7 members on Taiwan, including ‘one China’ policies G7 foreign ministers on Friday took a tough stance on China, stepping up their language on Taiwan and omitting some conciliatory references from past statements, including to “one China” policies. A statement by ministers meeting in Canada mirrored last month’s Japan-US statement in condemning “coercion” toward Taiwan. Compared with a G7 foreign ministers’ statement in November last year, the statement added members’ concerns over China’s nuclear buildup, although it omitted references to their concerns about Beijing’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong. Also missing were references stressing the desire for “constructive and stable relations with China” and
‘CROWN JEWEL’: Washington ‘can delay and deter’ Chinese President Xi Jinping’s plans for Taiwan, but it is ‘a very delicate situation there,’ the secretary of state said US President Donald Trump is opposed to any change to Taiwan’s “status quo” by force or extortion and would maintain that policy, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Hugh Hewitt Show host on Wednesday. The US’ policy is to maintain Taiwan’s “status quo” and to oppose any changes in the situation by force or extortion, Rubio said. Hewitt asked Rubio about the significance of Trump earlier this month speaking with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (台積電) chairman C.C. Wei (魏哲家) at the White House, a meeting that Hewitt described as a “big deal.” Asked whether the meeting was an indication of the
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