CINEMA
Documentary festival set
The 11th Taiwan International Documentary Festival is to be held in Taipei and New Taipei City from May 4 to May 13, and feature 170 films from around the world. The festival lineup includes US director Travis Wilkerson’s Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?, Chilean director Ignacio Andres’ This Is the Way I Like It II, Japanese director Go Takamine’s Queer Fish Lane, Israeli director Amos Gitai’s West of the Jordan River and US director Jay Rosenblatt’s short The Kodachrome Elegies. The films are to be screened at Shin Kong Cinemas and SPOT Huashan theater in Taipei, and the Fuzhong 15 theater in New Taipei City. Taiwanese environmental documentary filmmaker Ke Chin-yuan (柯金源), whose work has highlighted how industrialization has affected the environment, is to receive the festival’s outstanding contribution award, organizers said. Born in 1962 in Changhua County, Ke joined the Public Television Service in 1998, and has since taken more than 200,000 photographs and made 27 documentary films.
CHARITY
TAS club to hold book sale
The Taipei American School’s (TAS) Orphanage Club is to hold its annual book sale on Saturday from 10am to 5pm in the school’s forecourt and lobby. The club has collected thousands of books and comic books, as well as games, DVDs and CDs. The books include classics, best-sellers, biographies, English-language teaching books, arts-and-crafts books and young adult titles. Money raised from the event is used to help the 48-year-old club assist orphans and needy children in Taiwan, its outlying islands, as well as overseas. Admission is free, and the fair is to be held rain or shine. The school is at 800 Zhongshan N Rd Sec 6 in Taipei’s Tianmu neighborhood.
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) on Friday condemned Chinese and Russian authorities for escalating regional tensions, citing Chinese warplanes crossing the Taiwan Strait’s median line and joint China-Russia military activities breaching South Korea’s air defense identification zone (KADIZ) over the past two days. A total of 30 Chinese warplanes crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait on Thursday and Friday, entering Taiwan’s northern and southwestern airspace in coordination with 15 naval vessels and three high-altitude balloons, the MAC said in a statement. The Chinese military also carried out another “joint combat readiness patrol” targeting Taiwan on Thursday evening, the MAC said. On
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday confirmed that Chinese students visiting Taiwan at the invitation of the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation were almost all affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). During yesterday’s meeting convened by the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Michelle Lin (林楚茵) asked whether the visit was a way to spread China’s so-called “united front” rhetoric, to which MAC Deputy Ministry Shen You-chung (沈有忠) responded with the CCP comment. The MAC noticed that the Chinese individuals visiting Taiwan, including those in sports, education, or religion, have had increasingly impressive backgrounds, demonstrating that the
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Tasa Meng Corp (采盟), which runs Taiwan Duty Free, could be fined up to NT$1 million (US$30,737) after the owner and employees took center stage in a photograph with government officials and the returning Premier12 baseball champions at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Monday evening. When Taiwan’s national baseball team arrived home fresh from their World Baseball Softball Confederation Premier12 championship victory in Tokyo, Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) was at the airport with Chinese Professional Baseball League commissioner Tsai Chi-chang (蔡其昌) to welcome back the team. However, after Hsiao and Tsai took a photograph with the team, Tasa Meng chairwoman Ku
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