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Features Tsai on Cover www.chinapost.com.tw Excelsior (Mexico) City Press (South Africa) ■ SATURDAY ■ ■฀IMPACT JOURNALISM DAY INSIDE TODAY’S WEATHER ■฀IMPACT JOURNALISM DAY International 2 TV / Comics 13 June 20, 2015 The magic of “solid rain,” a compound based Business 3 Classifieds 11 These packs are charged all day while the on potassium acrylate, is that it can store 300 Commentary 4 Sports 15 8 Fushun Street, Taipei, 104, Taiwan children are at school and are fully charged times its own weight in water without causing Impact Journalism Day 5-12 Local 16 Phone: (02) 2596-9971 ◆ Fax: (02) 2595-7962 when the sun goes down providing much Email: [email protected] North Central South any harm to the environment. need light for doing homework. Page 11 28-35°C 27-35°C 29-33°C Page 10 N T $ 1 5 TAIWAN’S LEADING ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER SINCE 1 9 5 2 Vol. LXIII No.283 Total Issues 22,883 ‘Time’ features Tsai on cover dential election loss to incumbent be with when we were an opposi- its cover. Magazine calls Tsai frontrunner Ma Ying-jeou galvanized support- tion party,” Tsai said in the ar- Tsai Not Concrete Enough: Hung ers when she asked them “not to ticle, while seeming to refer to the lose heart.” Tsai, who described DPP’s status as opposition party Deputy Legislative Speaker and for ‘Chinese’ democratic leader herself as “quite adventurous,” in the past tense. likely Kuomintang presidential was also shown to have a witty The Time story, however, does candidate Hung Hsiu-chu told BY YUAN-MING CHIAO linary skills by preparing a meal sense of humor. allude to the potential salience of Time that she did not believe Tsai The China Post from locally sourced ingredients) Challenge in Economic Policy Tsai’s more conservative attitude to be a “strong opponent.” As Democratic Progressive Party to her various campaign stops toward the role of China’s labor- Tsai’s most likely opponent in the (DPP) Chairwoman and 2016 throughout the day. Time por- Formulation intensive economy on Taiwan’s race, Hung also reiterated criticism presidential contender Tsai Ing- trayed Tsai as “the early frontrun- However, just as Tsai has innovation-fueled economy that is toward the DPP chairwoman’s def- wen (蔡英文) was featured in the ner” in the 2016 presidential elec- been criticized by her opponents nevertheless dependent on lower inition of the “status quo” in rela- cover story of the Asia edition of tion with a “proudly, defiantly, and earlier by influential U.S. labor costs with the growing dis- tions between Taiwan and China. Time Magazine published yester- Taiwan-centric” policy outlook in academics with ties to policy- affection of the island’s youth as Referring to yesterday’s publi- day. which she calls for a new model makers for the vagueness in her symbolized in last year’s Sunflower cation featuring Tsai, Hung said The cover could give Tsai pres- that weans the island’s high-tech proposed cross-strait policy, the Movement. that it was “very good,” though tige yet its description of Taiwan economy from its dependence on report also acknowledged that Tsai, in answering questions she questioned Tsai’s “new as a “Chinese democracy” in the China. Tsai faced challenges in formu- from local media with regard to model” for Taiwan, saying that cover headline also points to the Aside from noting Tsai’s un- lating a new economic model the high-profile Time feature, a nation’s leader needed more challenge in cross-strait policy likely rise as the DPP’s standard that includes the corporate world said that her intention was to “al- substantive ideas rather than faced by the “Taiwan-centric” can- bearer following a series of without going against the more low the international community “constructing sentences full of ad- didate. electoral defeats, the DPP chair- traditional DPP China-skeptic to understand how the people of jectives only.” In Time’s article, reporter Em- woman’s personal branding as support base. Taiwan want to protect demo- ily Rauhala, who is based in Bei- a calculated thinker was seen as “Our challenge is to produce cratic values.” She added that she Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) jing, accompanies Tsai, the DPP having limited resonance initially something that is sensible to both was very pleased that the maga- Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen portrayed chairwoman, from breakfast time until her emotional concession sides without being considered as zine chose to highlight the value on the latest edition of Time Magazine CNA (in which Tsai shows off her cu- speech in 2012 after the presi- a traitor to the friends we used to of Taiwan’s democratic values on (Asia edition) released yesterday. Impact Journalism Day: newspapers unite for uplifting, solutions-based news BY CHRISTIAN DE BOISREDON The idea behind Impact Jour- have more of, is part of a growing this philosophy in their day-to-day a difference. Last year’s articles share the articles you like on the to overcome the challenges they AND THE SPARKNEWS TEAM nalism Day is to show that the movement in the press to feature activities. They are fueled by con- helped contribute to the growth of web and be part of the conversa- face by joining a brainstorming Reading the news on a daily basis media also fulfill their role by stories of hope and change. viction and also by seeing firsthand the projects featured, via an increase tion on Twitter and Facebook. session (beta.makesense.org/ijd). can be a depressing affair. World- reporting on inspiring solutions to Impact Journalism Day is just that this type of reporting has a in awareness, volunteering, orders, You can take part in our selfie And suggest projects we wide, readers and audiences repeat- the world’s problems. the beginning. Each edition has measurable impact on the ground. investments, donations or even via contest by posting a photo of might consider for next year’s edly report that they are put off by The alliance of 45 newspapers, seen a steady increase in the num- When the public learns of real replication in new countries. yourself and this newspaper via Impact Journalism Day (www. how negative the news seems to be. united by Sparknews, presents ber of newspapers and newsrooms solutions, the results can be tre- Now it’s your turn to be part of Twitter (#ImpactJournalism and sparknews.com/ijd). Yet the media’s role is to bring a different vision of journalism: onboard, excited to show their mendous. 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For more information: bleeds, it leads”? is something readers aspire to eager to participate and uphold Every reader can and does make your children or your colleagues, preneurs featured in these stories [email protected] 100 researchers help tackle the effects of What goes climate change, thanks to the support around, of the AXA Research Fund comes around A team comprising American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) officials and staff participates in a dragon boat racing competition in Taipei yesterday as part of the celebrations for Dragon Boat Festival in Taiwan. See story on page 16 CNA Greece hopeful of last-ditch bailout solution despite warnings of default ATHENS, AFP eign minister Euclid Tsakalotos. as Moscow and Athens signed Greece on Friday insisted a last- A billion euros were with- a preliminary agreement to set ditch deal on its debt was possible drawn from Greek banks on up a joint venture to extend the and dismissed “terror scenarios” Thursday, following another 1.6 TurkStream pipeline through of a default that is looking increas- billion euros over the two previ- Greece, a long-term project ingly likely, as emergency Euro- ous days, financial website euro- which the Greek government pean meetings continue in a bid to 2day reported. hopes will translate into an up- break the deadlock. EU President Donald Tusk has front payment of some sort. “Those who invest in crisis called an emergency summit of Greece has until June 30 to and terror scenarios will be the leaders of the 19 eurozone agree a reform deal in order to proven wrong,” Prime Minister countries in Brussels on Monday secure the remaining portion Alexis Tsipras’s office said, amid after finance ministers failed of its multi-billion-euro bailout, reports that Greeks banks are Thursday to break the five-month which it needs to avoid defaulting struggling to cope with a rush deadlock between the anti-aus- on a debt payment of around 1.5 of deposit withdrawals, fuelled terity government in Athens and billion euros to the International by the ill-tempered talks with its international creditors. Monetary Fund. Greece’s EU-IMF creditors. French President Francois Hol- Analysts have long warned lande insisted Friday that “every- that a default may set off a chain ECB Raises Emergency thing” must be done to seal a com- of events leading to a ‘Grexit’ -- Liquidity for Greek Banks promise on the Greek debt crisis.
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