Site of tragedy
Girlfriend of poisoning victim barred from exitLOVERS’ SPAT? Media reports said the woman had prepared the rat poison for herself after quarreling with Alex Shorey, but that he had accidentally ingested it The girlfriend of an Australian man who was sickened by rat poison has been ordered not to leave the country, Taipei prosecutors said yesterday, after reports that she told prosecutors she had prepared the poison for herself. Australian Alex Shorey, 24, left Taiwan on Wednesday on a medical evacuation flight bound for Queensland, where he is continuing to receive treatment after ingesting the rat poison superwarfarin. Authorities searched the residence of Shorey’s Taiwanese girlfriend on Wednesday as the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office opened an investigation into the case. Also conducting investigations are the Taipei Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division and Xinyi Precinct, whichBy Chien Li-chung
Source:Taipei Times
May 10, 2023 03:30 UTC
S Korea, Japan, US seek deal to track N Korean missiles
S Korea, Japan, US seek deal to track N Korean missilesAP, TOKYOJapan, the US and South Korea are negotiating an agreement on sharing real-time data on North Korean missile launches, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said yesterday. “The security environment surrounding Japan and South Korea is becoming more severe and more complex, and coordination between the two countries, as well as trilaterally with the United States, has become increasingly important,” he said. A missile is launched at an undisclosed location in an image taken from videoand released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency. Leaders of the three countries in November last year agreed to speed up information sharing on North Korean missile launches. Japanese and South Korean defense ministers would hold bilateral talks during the conference, the newspaper said.
Source:Taipei Times
May 10, 2023 02:01 UTC
China’s imports shrink, exports slow
Chinese exports grew 8.5 percent year-on-year last month to US$295.4 billion despite weakening global demand. Photo: APEconomists in a Reuters poll had predicted no growth in imports and an 8 percent increase in exports. Other data showed that South Korean exports to China, a leading indicator of China’s imports, were down 26.5 percent last month, continuing 10 consecutive months of decline. China’s coal imports fell last month from a 15-month high the prior month, while imports of copper — a proxy for global growth — and natural gas were also down in the same period. “The contraction of imports may be partly driven by the slowdown of global demand, which in turn affects China’s imports of parts and components for the processing of exports,” Pinpoint Asset Management Ltd (保銀私募基金管理) chief economist Zhiwei Zhang (張智威) said.
Source:Taipei Times
May 09, 2023 18:40 UTC
Adjusting to life after COVID-19
Adjusting to life after COVID-19By Chen Chiao-chicy 陳喬琪On April 30, the Central Epidemic Command Center was disbanded, and from Monday last week, the status of COVID-19 was downgraded from a category 5 notifiable communicable disease to category 4. In other words, three years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan’s disease control measures have officially been removed. On the other hand, many never caught COVID-19, but during the pandemic, they experienced anxiety and depression. As a result of disease control measures, many employees were required to work from home and communicate with the outside world through the Internet. The government must do more to communicate with the public, so that people can appreciate its disease control measures.
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May 09, 2023 16:58 UTC
Two dead after MiG jet flies into Indian house
Two dead after MiG jet flies into Indian house‘FLYING COFFINS’: Russian-made MiG jets first entered Indian service in the 1960s, but questions about their safety record has risen following numerous crashesAFP, NEW DELHITwo people on the ground died after a Russian-made MiG-21 military aircraft crashed onto a house in India yesterday, police said. The Indian Air Force (IAF) confirmed the crash and that the pilot ejected. Photo :AFP“A MiG-21 aircraft of the IAF crashed near Suratgarh during a routine training sortie today morning,” the IAF wrote on Twitter. That crash was the sixth MiG-21 aircraft to have gone down since January 2021, with five pilots killed. Russian-made MiG-21 jets first entered Indian service in the 1960s and for decades served as the backbone of the nation’s air force.
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May 09, 2023 03:42 UTC
TPP not looking for backroom deals, Ko says
TPP not looking for backroom deals, Ko saysBy Huang Ching-hsuan / Staff reporterA coalition between the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) and the pan-blue camp should be based on shared political values and ideas, not on the hope of making backroom deals or negotiating over legislative seats, TPP Chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) said yesterday. Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je, center, gestures after registering for the party’s presidential primary at the TPP headquarters in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei TimesThe former Taipei mayor yesterday said that cooperation is still possible if the two parties share the same ideas and values. Although former Taipei deputy mayor Vivian Huang (黃珊珊) is a good candidate, the TPP might want to extend its influence by looking at someone else, he said. TPP presidential primary candidates were required to register between April 27 and yesterday, and it planned to hold a primary today, if necessary.
Source:Taipei Times
May 08, 2023 23:03 UTC
A man worth remembering
Girlfriend of poisoning victim barred from exitLOVERS’ SPAT? Media reports said the woman had prepared the rat poison for herself after quarreling with Alex Shorey, but that he had accidentally ingested it The girlfriend of an Australian man who was sickened by rat poison has been ordered not to leave the country, Taipei prosecutors said yesterday, after reports that she told prosecutors she had prepared the poison for herself. Australian Alex Shorey, 24, left Taiwan on Wednesday on a medical evacuation flight bound for Queensland, where he is continuing to receive treatment after ingesting the rat poison superwarfarin. Authorities searched the residence of Shorey’s Taiwanese girlfriend on Wednesday as the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office opened an investigation into the case. Also conducting investigations are the Taipei Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division and Xinyi Precinct, whichBy Chien Li-chung
Source:Taipei Times
May 08, 2023 23:03 UTC
Bill to protect Indonesia’s workers leaves 2m exposed
Bill to protect Indonesia’s workers leaves 2m exposedBloombergIndonesia is the largest democracy in the world without a law to protect its domestic workers. Indonesian workers stage a protest urging the parliament to pass a domestic workers’ protection bill in Jakarta on March 14. For nearly two decades, a bill to protect domestic workers in Indonesia has languished in parliament. “We’re sending a message to the world that Indonesian domestic workers get proper protections,” Indonesian Vice Minister Hiariej said. “We always ask other countries to protect our domestic workers, and to ask that, we need a law ourselves,” he said.
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May 08, 2023 03:41 UTC
Warren Buffett faults US handling of banking crisis
Warren Buffett faults US handling of banking crisis‘SHOULDN’T HAPPEN’: The US government failed to allay consumer fears, despite taking extraordinary measures to prevent a larger crisis, Warren Buffett saidAFP, NEW YORKInvestment tycoon Warren Buffett on Saturday said that messaging from the US government over the regional banking crisis had been “poor,” suggesting that is why confidence has not returned among consumers. Berkshire Hathaway Inc chairman Warren Buffett walks through an exhibit hall at the firm’s annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on Thursday. Yet, despite that extraordinary step, consumers are still worried, Buffett said at a shareholder meeting of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc, in Omaha, Nebraska. “It’s been poor by the politicians who sometimes have an interest in having it poor, it’s been poor by the agencies. On Saturday, Berkshire Hathaway reported a US$35.5 billion profit for the first quarter alone, largely due to strong financial markets.
Source:Taipei Times
May 08, 2023 03:31 UTC
Tokyo, Seoul try to bury hatchet, hail ties
Kishida was in Seoul on the first official bilateral visit by a Japanese leader to South Korea in more than a decade. He met South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who has made improving testy relations with Japan a top priority for his administration. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, shakes hands with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol at a joint news conference after their meeting in Seoul yesterday. “As the South Korean government moves forward ... Yoon and Kishida yesterday agreed to cooperate on chips, without elaborating on what the partnership would entail.
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May 07, 2023 17:31 UTC
Dubai’s growing commodities hub is now enticing London traders
Dubai’s growing commodities hub is now enticing London tradersBloombergLondon’s commodities merchants are following some of their Swiss peers to Dubai, as the emirate moves from being an outpost focused on crude to a major energy trading hub. While London has a much bigger commodities presence, more energy traders are moving or expanding from the British capital to Dubai. “The tax incentives are clear, but for some there is a feeling that Dubai is well-positioned to become a major commodities trading hub,” Funnell said. Still, as a commodities trading center it remains much smaller than places like London, Singapore, Geneva and Stamford. Some of the company’s European power team have already made the move — including power desk head Brendan Mycock — and gas traders are expected to follow.
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May 07, 2023 17:31 UTC
China, Russia-led group chides global institutions
Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Qin Gang, left, talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Panaji, India, on Thursday. Photo: AP“With more than 40 percent of the world’s population within the SCO, our collective decisions will surely have a global impact,” he said. Russia and China founded the SCO in 2001 as a counterweight to US alliances across East Asia to the Indian Ocean. Russia and China have sought to reduce the dominance of what they see as US and Western-led global institutions and alliances, and China accuses Washington of attempting to contain its economic and military rise. “Victims of terrorism do not sit together with perpetrators of terrorism to discuss terrorism,” Jaishankar told the briefing.
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May 07, 2023 03:36 UTC
Hug a billionaire
‘The godfather of AI’ quits Google, warns of dangersMACHINE LEARNING: AI ‘takes away the drudge work,’ but it ‘might take away more than that,’ and could spread misinformation, making the truth difficult to know, he said A computer scientist often dubbed “the godfather of artificial intelligence” (AI) has quit his job at Google to speak out about the dangers of the technology, US media reported on Monday. Geoffrey Hinton, who created a foundation technology for AI systems, told the New York Times that advancements in the field posed “profound risks to society and humanity.” ‘THAT’S SCARY’ “Look at how it was five years ago and how it is now,” he was quoted as saying in the article. “Take the difference and propagate it forwards. That’s scary,” he said. Hinton said that competition between tech giants was pushing companies to release new
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May 07, 2023 03:30 UTC
Protecting the rights of Indonesian migrants
Protecting the rights of Indonesian migrantsBy Hasan Basri Maulana Firmansyah 傅翰森Taiwan is a democratic country that respects the value of tolerance. This is evident in the many organizations or groups that aim to accommodate Muslims, such as PCINU Taiwan — the local branch of Indonesian Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulaman — and the association of Indonesian Muslims in Taiwan. On April 22, at least 17 cities across Taiwan held Eid al-Fitr prayers, local Islamic organizations reported. Apart from representing Indonesia in Taiwan, IETO should fight for the rights of Indonesian migrants. More specifically, in the context of the right to worship, it should not only distribute information to migrants, but also establish direct communication with local agencies, so that migrant workers’ rights can be protected.
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May 06, 2023 21:38 UTC
Minister objects to bank’s misdesignation of Taiwan
Minister objects to bank’s misdesignation of TaiwanREGIONAL AID: The minister also urged the bank to strive for climate resilience for vulnerable developing member countries, and to help enhance their resource deliveryStaff writer, with CNAMinister of Finance Chuang Tsui-yun (莊翠雲) protested Taiwan’s designation as “Taipei, China” at the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) annual meeting, the Ministry of Finance said yesterday. Minister of Finance Chuang Tsui-yun attends the Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting in Incheon, South Korea, on Friday. Chuang protested the designation during her speech, saying that Taiwan has fulfilled its obligations and responsibilities as a member of the bank, the ministry said. She urged ADB member nations to respect each other and allow Taiwan to participate in the bank’s activities on an equal footing. Regarding gender equality, Chuang said that Taiwan has been ahead of its peers on the issue and was willing to share its experience with its partners.
Source:Taipei Times
May 06, 2023 21:36 UTC