Tesla’s Musk eyeing Germany production debut in November
Tesla’s Musk eyeing Germany production debut in NovemberBloombergTesla Inc CEO Elon Musk plans for the electric automaker’s plant near Berlin to start producing vehicles as early as next month, even as the US company still awaits final approval for the project, which has been delayed by legal challenges. The plant would probably source batteries from Tesla’s facilities in China until a cell factory in Germany is completed, he said. Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk arrives on stage to greet visitors to an Oktoberfest-style event hosted by the automaker in Gruenheide, Germany, on Saturday. Environmental authorities have vowed to make a decision on final approval only after that process ends. Tesla has said that while the system is designed to someday handle trips without driver intervention, it is not yet capable of rendering Tesla vehicles autonomous.
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October 10, 2021 15:56 UTC
National Day: Sun Yat-sen’s ROC founding deserves respect, Chu says
National Day: Sun Yat-sen’s ROC founding deserves respect, Chu saysBy Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporterThe two sides of the Taiwan Strait in their interactions should respect Sun Yat-sen’s (孫逸仙) founding of the Republic of China (ROC) 110 [sic] years ago, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) said yesterday. Chu made the remarks at a flag-raising ceremony at the KMT headquarters in Taipei to mark Double Ten National Day. Over the past 110 years, the ROC has remained unshakable in the midst of turmoil, said Chu, who assumed the role of KMT chairman on Tuesday last week. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu, second right, former president Ma Ying-jeou, second left, and other KMT members wave national flags during the KMT’s Double Ten National Day flag-raising ceremony in Taipei yesterday. A responsible ruling party should respect public opinion and defend the ROC, he said.
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October 10, 2021 15:56 UTC
Polish envoy talks vaccines, cooperation
Polish envoy talks vaccines, cooperationBy Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporterPoland’s donation of COVID-19 vaccines was sent to help Taiwan gradually reopen to the world, Polish Office in Taipei Acting Head Bartosz Rys said. The Polish government on Sept. 4 announced a donation of 400,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Taiwan, which arrived the following day. Photo: EPAWhile Poland’s announcement came after donation announcements by Lithuania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Poland is the third-largest donor of COVID-19 vaccines to Taiwan after the US and Japan. “I very much hope our donation will help Taiwan speed up the vaccination rollout. I also believe this will help Taiwan gradually relax COVID-19 curbs and open up to the world again, as more people will be protected,” he said.
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October 10, 2021 15:56 UTC
CECC reports zero local and seven imported cases
CECC reports zero local and seven imported casesCAUTION: People who were not infected with COVID-19 recently do still pose a risk to people with compromised immune systems, a hospital deputy superintendent saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported seven imported COVID-19 cases, but no locally transmitted infections or deaths. The cases were Taiwanese, Burmese and Indonesian nationals, who arrived from Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore between Sept. 27 and Friday, the CECC said in a news release. However, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital deputy superintendent Chiu Cheng-hsun (邱政洵) said that contract tracing should be conducted for such cases. Contact tracing would also help confirm that the cases have not recently had contact with an infected person, he added. To end the standoff, the deputy superintendent reportedly ordered staff to vaccinate the 42.
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October 10, 2021 15:56 UTC
National Day: Mayor Ko criticizes DPP in Double Ten Day message
National Day: Mayor Ko criticizes DPP in Double Ten Day messageBy Cheng Ming-hsiang and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerTaipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday in his Double Ten National Day message accused the Democratic Progressive Party government of inciting fear and anti-China sentiment, while making an appeal to Beijing to accept Taiwan’s existence. Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je and other officials clap during the Taipei City Government’s National Day flag-raising ceremony yesterday. He also took the opportunity to criticize the DPP leadership for refusing to work with their opponents. Ko also criticized President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) call for peaceful dialogue with China in her national day address yesterday, saying that mutual interaction is what makes change, not unending talk. Meanwhile, the TPP, in its own National Day address, echoed Ko’s call for inclusivity while condemning the “domination of one voice” in government.
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October 10, 2021 15:56 UTC
Fantasy festival
Taiwan signs MOUs with two states in the USARIZONA, NEW MEXICO: The deals are to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the semiconductor industry, as well as the information and communications industry The Ministry of Economic Affairs yesterday signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) to deepen bilateral trade cooperation with Arizona and New Mexico during a virtual ceremony at the opening of the 10th US Business Day in Taipei. The annual event is hosted by the ministry and the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA, 外貿協會), with this year’s being held at the Taipei International Convention Center yesterday and today. Taiwan-US business cooperation and partnerships are at their best right now, TAITRA said in a statement. Seminars and symposiums are being held at the event under the Taiwan-US Trade Forum, a platform designed for Taiwan to
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October 10, 2021 15:56 UTC
Officials from US, China talk trade in virtual meeting
Officials from US, China talk trade in virtual meetingAP, BEIJINGChina and the US on Saturday held a virtual meeting regarding the two countries’ fraught trade relationship, after a lengthy break in negotiations. Beijing’s top trade negotiator, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He (劉鶴), called US Trade Representative Katherine Tai (戴琪) to discuss a phase 1 trade deal, negotiated under former US president Donald Trump’s administration, along with other major economic concerns, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He listens as then-US president Donald Trump speaks before signing a trade agreement at the White House in Washington on Jan. 15 last year. Photo: APTai last week said that she planned frank conversations with officials in Beijing about an interim trade deal aimed at resolving a tariff war. The phase 1 trade deal put on pause a trade dispute enacted by Trump, who raised tariffs on Chinese imports over complaints about Beijing’s industrial policy and trade surplus.
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October 10, 2021 15:56 UTC
FEATURE: Generalization of EU states risky: observers
FEATURE: Generalization of EU states risky: observersBy Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporterWhile Taiwan is improving relations with central and eastern European countries, it should not generalize about countries that have varied political contexts, but find different ways to promote Taiwan’s culture, observers said. A notice from the Chinese Ministry of Justice to Taiwanese writer Lin Wei-yun about documents from a Polish court are displayed during Lin’s interview with the Taipei Times and the Liberty Times on Thursday last week. Because if you discuss the relations between Taiwan and the EU or the US, you cannot take China out of the picture,” she said. “Still, we should not generalize about the CEE countries when it comes to their relations with Taiwan [or] China. They have different history, interests and political realities, which inform their choices also on the international stage,” she said.
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October 10, 2021 15:56 UTC
EDITORIAL: Realistic threat assessment needed
EDITORIAL: Realistic threat assessment neededMany countries have expressed concerns over security in the Taiwan Strait, but neither China’s threats nor the government’s warnings seem to affect most Taiwanese. Previous crises, such as in 1976 or 1996, mainly affected Taiwan’s outlying islands, while posing less of a threat to Taiwan proper, he said. Should Taiwan continue to place itself, or be placed, in the center of an international discourse about China’s military actions? Asking these questions does not amount to downplaying China’s military threat to Taiwan. Chang said that finding political explanations behind every Chinese aircraft deployment is not feasible and that the government only publicizes Chinese aircraft movements, while not regularly reporting those of aircraft or vessels of other nations’ militaries.
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October 09, 2021 16:07 UTC
First local COVID-19 case in nine days is an infant
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung attends a news conference at the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) in Taipei yesterday. Before yesterday’s new local case, Taiwan had not reported any domestically transmitted cases for nine consecutive days. Meanwhile, an eighth batch of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines purchased from the US vaccine maker arrived in Taiwan early yesterday, comprising 1.13 million doses. The WHO has recommended that the two Moderna vaccine doses be given 28 days apart, and the time between the two shots can be delayed by up to 12 weeks if necessary. Meanwhile, a second batch of AstraZeneca vaccines donated by Lithuania, totaling 235,900 doses, arrived in Taipei yesterday.
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October 09, 2021 15:56 UTC
Fourth Aussie rules football player had CTE before death
Fourth Aussie rules football player had CTE before deathAP, MELBOURNEA former captain of a championship-winning Australian rules football team yesterday became the fourth league player to be posthumously diagnosed with a debilitating neurological disease linked to head trauma and concussions. The Victorian Football League was the forerunner to the Australian Football League. Weideman’s family yesterday revealed the findings of the Australian Sports Brain Bank’s report. Former Richmond midfielder Tuck was assessed as having the “worst-seen case” of CTE when results were revealed by the brain bank in January. No alcohol or illicit drugs were found in his system on the day of his death and he was posthumously diagnosed with CTE.
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October 09, 2021 15:56 UTC
Webb pitches SF past Dodgers
Webb pitches SF past Dodgers‘BACKYARD’ BASEBALL: Webb was met with a rousing ovation in the eighth when he waved his pitching hand and walked off the field after outpitching the DodgersAP, SAN FRANCISCOLogan Webb on Friday pumped his fists as he set down a star-studded Los Angeles Dodgers lineup all game long, then raised his pitching hand in appreciation after a masterful post-season debut. The San Francisco Giants’ Logan Webb walks off the field after being relieved in the eighth inning of Game 1 of their National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Friday. “He’ll calm me down.”Kris Bryant and Brandon Crawford also homered to back a combined five-hitter by Webb and a pair of relievers. Webb waved his pitching hand walking off to a rousing ovation in the eighth after a two-out single by Mookie Betts. Kike Hernandez had five of Boston’s 20 hits, including a homer and three doubles, becoming Boston’s first player with four extra-base hits in a post-season game.
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October 09, 2021 15:56 UTC
Runners fight heat in desert race
Runners fight heat in desert raceAFP, ERRACHIDIA, MoroccoFor the survivors who cross the finish line of the 35th Marathon des Sables, the six-day, 254km slog across the sands have brought heat exhaustion, blisters, diarrhea and joy. Competitors run down a sand dune during the fifth stage of the Marathon des Sables in the southern Moroccan Sahara on Friday. There are heatstrokes, which associated with high temperatures also cause hallucinations, even comas,” he said, adding that he had counted nine runners who had fallen into comas. Every evening, runners lie on their backs and stretch out their legs, offering their blistered feet for treatment. On Thursday’s 86.2km fourth stage, race leader Rachid Al Morabity finished in 8 hours, 46 minutes, 16 seconds at an average speed of 9.23kph.
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October 09, 2021 15:56 UTC
Kaohsiung centenarians receive visit from mayor
Kaohsiung centenarians receive visit from mayorBy Fang Chih-hsien and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerKaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) on Thursday visited three centenarians in the city, including 102-year-old Wang Te-yung (王德永), whose lifelong passion for photography is apparent in the many photo albums he plans to pass on to his grandchildren. Wang, who lives in Fongshan District (鳳山), was born in northeast China. Centenarian Wang Te-yung, left, takes a photograph of Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai, right, at Wang’s home in Kaohsiung’s Fongshan District on Thursday. Wang shared some of his photo albums with Chen, even taking out his camera to snap a photograph of the mayor. According to the Kaohsiung Social Affairs Bureau, there are 376 centenarians in the city; 148 men and 228 women.
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October 09, 2021 15:56 UTC
People to decide nation’s future: PO
Photo: Ann Wang, ReutersThe 1911 Xinhai Revolution, led by Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙), toppled the Qing Dynasty and ended imperial rule in China with the formation of the ROC. Presidential Office spokesman Xavier Chang (張惇涵) said the Xinhai Revolution created the basis for a democratic republic, not an autocracy. The mainstream public opinion in Taiwan is clear in rejecting China’s “one country, two systems” model, he added. It is the responsibility of all nations in the region to maintain peace and stability, not only in the Strait, but throughout the region, he said. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in a statement said it has always upheld and defended the spirit of the Xinhai Revolution, which is to give people democracy, freedom and justice.
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October 09, 2021 15:56 UTC