GO
Champ retains title
Taiwanese go star Shei Imin (謝依旻) retained the prestigious women’s Kisei title on Monday by beating Japan’s Yukari Yoshihara for the second consecutive time in a best-of-three series in Japan. Shei has won the title six times. She won it for the first time in 2010, successfully defended the championship the following year, regained the title in 2013 after losing it in 2012 and has held it since then. The 26-year-old, who is based in Tokyo, has won 22 go titles in her professional career, a record for a female professional go player in Japan. She is also the first woman to have simultaneously held the three most prestigious go titles — the Kisei, the Honinbo title and the Meijin title — and has done that three times. Shei regained the Honinbo title late last month, which she lost in 2013 after holding it from 2007 to 2012. She has also held the Meijin title since 2008 and is expected to defend it next month.
CRIME
Zodiac defacers sentenced
Two people were sentenced to two months in prison for spray-painting two Chinese zodiac heads that were part of a set of 12 donated by Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan (成龍) to the National Palace Museum Southern Branch last month. The two can pay fines in lieu of serving prison terms and the case can still be appealed. The Chiayi District Court said the man, surnamed Chen (陳), 33, and woman, also surnamed Chen, 20, sprayed red paint on the Chinese zodiac heads and painted “cultural united front” on the pedestals. The two Chens said they were angry at Chan’s membership in the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and said the heads were united front tools, so they were not suitable for display. They were charged with obstructing officials from performing their duties.
Four factors led to the declaration of a typhoon day and the cancelation of classes yesterday, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) said. Work and classes were canceled across Taiwan yesterday as Typhoon Krathon was forecast to make landfall in the southern part of the country. However, northern Taiwan had only heavy winds during the day and rain in the evening, leading some to criticize the cancelation. Speaking at a Taipei City Council meeting yesterday, Chiang said the decision was made due to the possibility of landslides and other problems in mountainous areas, the need to avoid a potentially dangerous commute for those
There are 77 incidents of Taiwanese travelers going missing in China between January last year and last month, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said. More than 40 remain unreachable, SEF Secretary-General Luo Wen-jia (羅文嘉) said on Friday. Most of the reachable people in the more than 30 other incidents were allegedly involved in fraud, while some had disappeared for personal reasons, Luo said. One of these people is Kuo Yu-hsuan (郭宇軒), a 22-year-old Taiwanese man from Kaohsiung who went missing while visiting China in August. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office last month said in a news statement that he was under investigation
PRO-CHINA SLOGANS: Two DPP members criticized police officers’ lack of action at the scene, saying that law enforcement authorities should investigate the incident Chinese tourists allegedly interrupted a protest in Taipei on Tuesday held by Hong Kongers, knocked down several flags and shouted: “Taiwan and Hong Kong belong to China.” Hong Kong democracy activists were holding a demonstration as Tuesday was China’s National Day. A video posted online by civic group Hong Kong Outlanders shows a couple, who are allegedly Chinese, during the demonstration. “Today is China’s National Day, and I won’t allow the displaying of these flags,” the male yells in the video before pushing some demonstrators and knocking down a few flagpoles. Radio Free Asia reported that some of the demonstrators
China is attempting to subsume Taiwanese culture under Chinese culture by promulgating legislation on preserving documents on ties between the Minnan region and Taiwan, a Taiwanese academic said yesterday. China on Tuesday enforced the Fujian Province Minnan and Taiwan Document Protection Act to counter Taiwanese cultural independence with historical evidence that would root out misleading claims, Chinese-language media outlet Straits Today reported yesterday. The act is “China’s first ad hoc local regulations in the cultural field that involve Taiwan and is a concrete step toward implementing the integrated development demonstration zone,” Fujian Provincial Archives deputy director Ma Jun-fan (馬俊凡) said. The documents
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