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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Chinese tourist threshold for medical affairs raised

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

Amid global economic uncertainties, Taiwan's machine tool exports totaled US$310 million last month, down 3 percent from May, the Taichung-based Taiwan Machine Tool and Accessory Builders' Association said in a statement. Citing preliminary government statistics, the association said it saw "instability" in the international economic system, with weak Chinese and European ...

US dollar closes at NT$29.978 on Taipei forex

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI -- The U.S. dollar fell against the New Taiwan dollar Friday, shedding NT$0.047 to close at NT$29.978 as traders took cues from the strength of other regional currencies such as the Japanese yen and the South Korean won to buy into the local unit, dealers ...

Chinese tourist threshold for medical affairs raised

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Responding to the gradually rising number of tourists illegally remaining in Taiwan, the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) yesterday announced a timetable to enforce the management of Chinese tourists who visit Taiwan for medical ...

TSMCs stock drops below NT$100 mark on weak Q3 forecast

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC, ???) took a beating yesterday, falling below the NT$100 (US$3.34) mark, a day after the company gave a worse-than-expected forecast for its future ...

Bus catches fire while driving in tunnel

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A Kuo-Kuang (??) bus caught fire yesterday afternoon at Pengshan Tunnel (????) on National Highway No. 5, according to ...

Animal control workers must receive rabies shots lawmaker

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Animal control workers must be given top priority in the rationing of rabies vaccines before there are insufficient supplies to cover all personnel at high risk of being infected by the virus, a legislator said ...

Chemical truck flips in New Taipei City

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A 35-ton truck transporting the hazardous chemical phenol flipped over on Provincial Highway No. 62 early yesterday, with the driver suffering minor ...

Museum aims to heal broken hearts in Taiwan

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI--A traveling exhibition centered on failed relationships and their ruins will be held in Taipei from Saturday through Sept. 1, with an objective to heal and inspire locals who have gone through similar experiences, event curators said ...

TI sorry for wrong info stands by findings

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI--Transparency International (TI) apologized again Friday for having misnamed the company that conducted a corruption survey on Taiwan but expressed full confidence in its ...

DRAM spot prices decline more than 8 on inventory adjustments

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI--Prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips in the spot market have fallen more than 8 percent since the beginning of July due to inventory adjustments, statistics showed ...

FET accuses China store landlord of robbery

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan-based Far Eastern (FET) Group yesterday accused the landlord of its department store in a western Chinese city of acting like "robbers," demanding the authorities on both sides of the strait to take action to protect its investment in ...

TAIEX dives on electronics sell-off ends day at 8062.03

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI--Shares in Taiwan fell sharply in expanded turnover Friday, with the bellwether electronics sector in focus after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the most heavily weighted stock in the local market, issued a lower-than-expected sales forecast for the third quarter, dealers ...

Court upholds 30-year sentence for child killer no further appeals

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Supreme Court yesterday denied an appeal from prosecutors on the prison sentence for Liu Chin-lung (???), retaining his previous 30-year sentence for causing the death of a 2-year-old boy through ...

Protesters arrested for defacing Miaoli magistrates residence

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Supporters of Dapu residents whose homes were demolished against their wishes by Miaoli County Government (???) splashed paint on the Miaoli County magistrate's home yesterday, with four of the protesters later being ...

Kaohsiung bike service awards 2 millionth rider

The China Post - Friday 19th July, 2013

The city's Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) presented the prize to a 16-year-old high school student, surnamed Wu, who became the 2 millionth rider of the Kaohsiung Public Bike (KPC) in May. Wu said that at the time that he was renting the bike after school he never expected to win a prize from the action. Chen Chu-feng, deputy chief of EPB, said the city hopes its residents can use ...

Taiwan is ?frontline? for China?s cyber army

General Sources - Friday 19th July, 2013

TAIPEI: Taiwan is the frontline in an emerging global battle for cyberspace, according to elite hackers in the island's IT industry, who say it has become a rehearsal area for the Chinese cyberattacks that have strained ties with the United States.The island, they say, has endured at least a decade of highly-targeted data-theft attacks that are then directed towards larger countries. ...

Protesters against corporal?s death prepare to surround defense ministry

Taiwan News Online - Friday 19th July, 2013

Protesters against the death of Army Corporal Hung Chiu-chu hope to rally up to 10,000 students, teachers and parents to surround the Ministry of National Defense today. Three officers of the 542nd Brigade were ordered detained this week as they were suspected of collusion in the July 4 death of the 23-year-old corporal after alleged excessive punishment for bringing a camera phone into his ...

Genetically modified flourescent fish could help the early detection of cancer

The Telegraph - Friday 19th July, 2013

Liver genes in the fish are modified and dyed to help monitor cell growth, it is hoped that the technique might, one day, be used to highlight cancerous ...

Limited opening blunts service trade pact president

Taiwan News Online - Friday 19th July, 2013

Ma Ying-jeou said Friday. He was responding to a July 15 report by the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, a local think tank. The think tank tied its forecast of limited effectiveness to limited opening of markets, especially on the part of Taiwan. It ...

Aurora mulls building units in Taiwan

Taiwan News Online - Friday 19th July, 2013

Taipei, July 19 (CNA) United States-based Aurora Imaging Technology, Inc. (Aurora) said Friday it is considering to take advantage of Taiwan's well-established manufacturing industry and research capability to set up local branches. The company is mulling both local factories and research centers to better integrate Taiwan's manufacturing skills and technological know-how to cut down ...

Local governments should embrace free trade zones vice premier

Taiwan News Online - Friday 19th July, 2013

Taipei, July 19 (CNA) Vice Premier Mao Chi-kuo said Friday that the establishment of free trade zones (FTZs) is a growing trend and that local governments should see this as a business opportunity. Speaking at a harbor city development forum in Taichung, central Taiwan, he said the country's FTZs are undergoing a transformation, with the focus shifting from cargo toward passengers, mainly ...

Politician pitches plan to develop closed sugar plant area

Taiwan News Online - Friday 19th July, 2013

Taipei, July 19 (CNA) Looking to build support for a possible election bid in 2014, a former acting magistrate of Yunlin County has advocated building a park for small businesses on the site of a sugar refinery in Beigang Township that closed in 2005. Lee Chin-yong of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), who is thought to be eyeing his party's nomination for the county magistrate race in ...

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Friday, July 19, 2013

California Reconsiders Digital License Plates

In 2010, California considered switching to digital license plates,?complete with pop-up ads -- and the state is looking into similar legislation yet again.

Through Senate Bill 806, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)?can, at no cost to the state, create a three-year pilot program with as many as 160,000 cars testing digital plates --?essentially a 12-inch-by-6-inch computer screen with "California" in red across the top and license numbers in blue, the Sacramento Bee reported.

California hopes the technology,?patented by San Francisco-based Smart Plate Mobile, ?will not only improve efficiencies in vehicle registrations, but also save the DMV some of the $20 million it spends each year on postage for renewals.

The program, run by the DMV, would test the digital plates on California roadways. And? according to? Jim Lites, a lobbyist hired by Smart Plate Mobile, the pilot? would likely focus on vehicle fleets owned by large private companies --? ?companies that often spend much time managing the various registration renewals of fleet vehicles to ensure they're up to date, the Bee reported..

Unlike the 2010 legislation, seen as a potential revenue generator since the DMV could have sold ad space on the plates, ads are not included in the current bill -- which? will focus on vehicle registration efficiencies that can be created, Lites said.

"Let's focus on that and let the Legislature decide what they would like this technology to do, assuming this pilot is successful," Lites?told the?Bee.

The bill,? which cleared the Senate and is now in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, ?has many supporters, but no opposition is listed. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, however, said it's both ?surprised and disappointed that the bill is proceeding without serious exploration of the privacy risks.

"Just because it's a pilot doesn't excuse the Legislature of responsibility,"? said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at the nonprofit group.

Although?concerns over privacy have, in fact, come up, Lites dismissed them given that this is an opt-in program and security controls will be in place to protect information.

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Monday, July 15, 2013

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

86 dead and more than hundred tourists trapped in northwest China

More than 100 tourists became trapped in Wenxian County in northwest China's Gansu Province Friday night after a rain-triggered landslide and mudslide cut off traffic, local authorities said Saturday.

The tourists, including 38 Vietnamese nationals, became trapped in Wenxian's Yulei Township at about 9 p.m. while en route to Jiuzhaigou, a renowned nature reserve in neighboring province of Sichuan, according to the county government.

They were accommodated in the county's Bikou Township Friday night.

Bikou is about 200 km away from Jiuzhaigou.
Road repair work is still under way in the area.

Mudslides and flooding are common in China?s mountainous areas, killing hundreds of people every year, but in some areas the current floods are already the worst in half a century. This flood has killed at least 86 people, state media said Saturday.

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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Sony 4K TV At Best Buy

Sony has their 55 inch 4K TV setup at Best Buy and I have to say I am not really impressed. It was running the Sony Demo that is in 4K but it just didn't seem that much better than 1080p Panasonic Plasma next to it. I guess the real benefit will be with larger screens like 80" I would much rather see some OLED TV?s. Anyone else set eyes on a 4K yet?

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Jeff Bezos to open Center for Innovation this fall, aims to inspire young would-be entrepreneurs

Bezos Center for Innovation to open this fall

What's an e-commerce tycoon to do after funding everything from nuclear fusion startups to commercial spaceflight ventures? Why, help develop a museum exhibit to inspire young folks and teach them about innovation, of course. After more than two years of development and $10 million from Jeff Bezos' own pockets, the Museum of History and Industry will open the doors to the Bezos Center for Innovation on October 12th. Not only does the center aim to help visitors learn about "the importance of innovation" through interactive exhibits, but it will toot Seattle's horn for being "the birthplace of so many trailblazing companies." If you can't make it to The Emerald City, we're sure Bezos has a few learning alternatives in mind.

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Police: Teen in Asiana crash hit by fire truck

In this image from video provided by ABC7 News/KGO-TV a section of the fuselage of Asiana Flight-214 is removed at San Francisco airport early Friday morning July 12, 2013. Workers began clearing the wreckage early Friday. The Asiana flight crashed upon landing Saturday, July 6, at San Francisco International Airport, and two of the 307 passengers aboard were killed. (AP Photo/ABC7 News/KGO-TV)

School administrators Derek Swales, right, prays next to two empty school desks meant to be used by two Chinese students: Ye Mingyuan and Yuan Linjia, 16, seen top left, who died aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214 as it crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, at the West Valley Christian School in Los Angeles Thursday, July 11, 2013. The students were planning to attend a summer program at West Valley Christian School in West Hills. The flight originated in Shanghai and stopped over in Seoul before making the nearly 11-hour trip to San Francisco. Two people died and 180 of the 307 passengers were hurt Saturday when the Boeing 777 slammed tail-first into a seawall at the end of the runway. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Church members: Emily Warner, 12, left, and Allison Swales, 15, gift red roses to women, during a prayer vigil for Chinese students and chaperones who were aboard Asiana Airlines Flight 214 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, at the West Valley Christian School in Los Angeles Thursday, July 11, 2013. The students were planning to attend a summer program at West Valley Christian School in West Hills. The flight originated in Shanghai and stopped over in Seoul before making the nearly 11-hour trip to San Francisco. Two people died and 180 of the 307 passengers were hurt Saturday when the Boeing 777 slammed tail-first into a seawall at the end of the runway. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? One of the Chinese teenagers who died in the Asiana Airlines disaster was struck by a fire truck while she was covered in foam that crews had sprayed to douse the fire aboard the plane, police said Friday.

It wasn't clear, however, whether 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan was already dead or whether she was alive after the crash Saturday at San Francisco airport.

Authorities were still trying to determine the cause of death, and San Mateo County coroner Robert Foucrault said his initial results would likely be released sometime next week. He would not comment on the police investigation.

"The police department is responsible for the accident investigation, and my office is responsible for determining the cause and manner of death," Foucrault said.

Police officials confirmed that she was hit by the truck. She was on the ground and covered in the foam.

"When the fire truck repositioned itself to continue battling flames from the fuselage, the victim passenger was found in the tire track of the fire truck," police spokesman Albie Esparza said.

Asiana Flight 214 collided with a rocky seawall just short of its intended airport runway on Saturday. Two people were killed and dozens of others injured although most suffered minor injuries. Investigators have said the plane came in too low and slow.

Nearly a week after the crash, investigators have pieced together an outline of the event ? what should have been a smooth landing by seasoned pilots turning into a disaster.

With each new bit of information, the picture emerging is of pilots who were supposed to be closely monitoring the plane's airspeed, but who didn't realize until too late that the aircraft was dangerously low and slow. Nothing disclosed so far by the National Transportation Safety Board investigators indicates any problems with the Boeing 777's engines or the functioning of its computers and automated systems.

"The first thing that's taught to a pilot is to look at the airspeed indicator. It is the most important instrument in the cockpit," said Lee Collins, a pilot with 29 years and 18,000 hours experience flying a variety of airliners. "Airspeed is everything. You have airspeed, you live. You don't, you die."

Investigators are still trying to nail down hundreds of details about the crash last Saturday that killed two people and injured dozens. NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman has cautioned against reaching conclusions.

But investigators already know a great deal. They've listened to the Boeing 777's voice recorder, which captured the last two hours of conversation in the cockpit. They've downloaded its flight data recorder, which captured 1,400 indicators of what was happening on the plane, from the temperatures inside and out to the positions of cockpit instruments.

The flight's four pilots have been interviewed, as have passengers and dozens of witnesses. Air traffic control recordings and video of the flight's last moments, including the crash itself, have been examined.

Here's what investigators have revealed about a Seoul-to-San Francisco flight that was normal until its last minutes, when the wide-body jet carrying 307 people rapidly lost altitude:

The pilot flying the plane, Lee Gang-kuk, 46, had nearly 10,000 hours of flying experience, but just 35 hours flying a Boeing 777. He had recently completed training that qualified him to fly passengers in the 777, and was about halfway through his post-qualification training. He was seated in the left cockpit pilot seat. In the co-pilot position was Lee Jeong-Min, an experienced captain who was supervising Lee Gang-kuk's training. It was Lee Gang-kuk's first time landing a 777 in San Francisco.

At 11:19:23 PDT, after a nearly 11-hour flight, the plane was traveling over the San Francisco Peninsula. The weather was near perfect, sunny with light winds.

Lee Jeong-Min and a third pilot sitting in a jump seat just behind the main seats, a first officer, were supposed to be monitoring the plane's controls. One of their most important jobs was to closely monitor the plane's two airspeed indicators. In the U.S., if an amber bar is more than five knots above or below the target speed during landing, the pilot flying is supposed to abort and make another attempt, according to pilots interviewed by The Associated Press.

As the plane descended to 1,600 feet, the autopilot was turned off. At 1,400 feet, the plane's airspeed was about 170 knots.

The flight data recorder shows the plane's autothrottle ? similar to a car's cruise control ? was set on idle during the approach, Hersman said, and that there were multiple commands at times given to the autothrottle and autopilot.

At 11:26:58 and 1,000 feet, the pilots made contact with the airport tower. When they were cleared to land 12 seconds later, the plane's altitude had dropped to about 600 feet. The plane was configured for its approach and the landing gear was down. The airspeed was about 149 knots. A target speed of 137 knots was set.

At 500 feet there was an audible automated altitude alert. The airspeed was about 134 knots. At this point that pilots realized they weren't properly lined up with the runway, Hersman said.

"Between 500 and 200 feet, they had a lateral deviation and they were low. They were trying to correct at that point," she said.

At 200 feet and another automated altitude call out, the airspeed had slowed to 118 knots ? well below the target level.

At this point, U.S. pilots would typically call for an aborted landing because the plane was more than 5 knots below its target speed, Collins said. But at no point in between 500 and 100 feet does the voice recorder show the pilots making any comment related to airspeed, Hersman said at a briefing Thursday.

Hersman said at earlier briefings that it was not until 200 feet ? 16 seconds before impact ? that Lee Jeong-Min, the instructor pilot "recognized the auto-throttles were not maintaining speed."

At 125 feet and 112 knots, both throttles started moving forward, indicating more fuel was being sent to the engines to increase power and speed. That was eight seconds before impact. Even if the autothrottles weren't fully turned on, either of the pilots in the two front seats could reach down and manually push the throttle levers forward to increase power.

It was about this time that the cockpit voice recorder indicated the first officer ? the third pilot seating behind the front two pilots ? realized the plane was traveling too slowly and called for an increase in speed.

A second later, Lee Gang-kuk's yoke can be heard rattling violently on the voice recorder. This is the sound of a stick shaker going off, a piece of safety equipment that tells a pilot the plane is about to stall because it has slowed to a dangerous speed and lost lift.

When the pilots in the two front seats realized the plane was in trouble, they both reached for the throttle. Passengers heard a loud roar as the plane revved up in a last-minute attempt to abort the landing.

At three seconds before impact, the plane reached its slowest speed of 103 knots. Its engines were at 50 percent power and power was increasing. At this time, one of the pilots called for an aborted landing.

At one and a half seconds before impact, another of the pilots calls for an aborted landing.

At 11:28, with the airspeed up three knots, the landing gear, followed by the plane's tail, collided with the seawall just short of Runway 28 Left. The plane careened wildly before slamming down onto the tarmac and sliding about 1,000 feet. The tail was sheared off and three flight attendants seated in the back of the plane fell out. Rocks from the seawall and pieces of the mangled landing gear were strewn along the runway.

The NTSB's investigation is being followed closely by pilots in the U.S. and around the world. At one gathering of pilots in Dallas Wednesday night, the discussion centered on why the Asiana pilots didn't realize their low speed sooner. No one had an answer.

"There are a lot of very experienced airline pilots who are scratching their heads right now," Collins said.

Meanwhile, crews removing the plane's wreckage encountered smoke early Friday morning. The smoke was captured by KGO-TV cameras, and the news station said it occurred moments after crews used a sling to lift the fuselage.

Heat and friction generated while crews were cutting the fuselage of Asiana Flight 214 might be to blame for the smoke, airport spokesman Doug Yakel said.

He said fire trucks at the scene doused the smoke before it turned into a fire.

Yakel said the fuselage was cut into two pieces to make it easier to transport. Much of the wreckage has now been removed from the site.

Airport officials hope to re-open the runway by late Sunday. The closure has led to flight cancellations and delays.

Associated Press writers Martha Mendoza and Jason Dearen contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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