【精英翻譯】的部落格

Over NT$6 million raised to take out ads opposed to cross-strait trade-in-services pact (2014/03/25)

Front-page advertisements explaining students’ reasons for opposing the cross-strait trade-in-services pact were seen in the Apple Daily and Liberty Times today. Funding for the ads and a future one to appear in the New York Times international edition was crowdsourced a day earlier within a period of just three hours. 

Families devastated after Malaysian Airlines announces everyone aboard missing aircraft is dead (2014/03/25)

Malaysian Airline officials held a press conference this afternoon announcing there were “no survivors” aboard Flight MH370. A day earlier the Malaysian prime minister said analysis of satellite data showed that the missing airliner had gone down into the Indian Ocean. 

National Palace Museum to display ‘Jadeite Cabbage with Insects’ in Tokyo (2014/03/25)

The National Palace Museum will lend two of its most popular items, a piece of jadeite resembling white cabbage and a piece of banded jasper resembling pork for exhibitions in Japan. 

Council of Agriculture restricts pork sales, purchases to stabilize rising prices (2014/03/25)

The Council of Agriculture is taking several steps to cool rising pork prices. After forcing local supermarkets operated by regional farmers’ association to offer discounts on two types of pork, it is now limiting purchases by major frozen meat sellers to prevent hoarding and speculation. 

Students deliver petition demanding impeachment of premier, police chief (2014/04/01)

Students are urging the government watchdog to impeach officials who ordered and led last week’s bloody crackdown on demonstrators who stormed the Executive Yuan. Chief among the officials who the students want the Control Yuan to investigate is Premier Jiang Yi-huah. 

President Ma and student leaders agree in principle to talks (2014/03/25)

President Ma Ying-jeou and the students occupying the Legislature both say they are willing to meet each other without any preconditions. Such a meeting could prove to be a significant step toward ending what is already an eight-day standoff over a trade-in-services pact that Taiwan signed with China. 

Riot police forcefully remove student demonstrators from the Executive Yuan (2014/03/24)

For the first time ever last night the Executive Yuan was infiltrated by demonstrators. A faction of students acting separately from those leading occupation of the Legislature decided to expand protests over the trade-in-services pact that Taiwan signed with China to the nation’s main decision-making body. After a brief occupation there, they were forcefully expelled by riot police. 

Students occupying Legislature deplore use of violence by riot police (2014/03/24)

As students occupying the Legislature watched those at the Executive Yuan being beaten with police batons and doused with water, they moved to fortify their own position. They criticized the violence and called it a violation of power. 

Ma administration says anti-riot measures were needed to keep government running (2014/03/24)

President Ma and Premier Jiang Yi-huah have been reluctant to expel protesters occupying the Legislature, but they showed no such qualms about removing students from the Executive Yuan. Today they defended anti-riot measures that left more than 100 people injured. They placed blame for this bloody outcome on the students and other demonstrators who they accuse of “illegally” occupying government buildings. 

Protester Could Face Jail (2014/03/24)

Police arrested 61 people involved in the occupation of the Executive Yuan. Thirty-five were deemed as being caught in the act of a crime and were questioned by prosecutors. One, National Tsing Hua University graduate student Wei Yang, was named leader of the occupation. 

Students occupying Legislature express support for students who stormed Executive Yuan (2014/03/24)

Students occupying the Legislature voiced support today for Wei Yang and the other demonstrators who stormed the Executive Yuan. Today student leader Chen Wei-ting wondered why people like Wei are persecuted for their efforts to expose the truth. 

New barricades and security staff called in to protect Executive Yuan (2014/03/24)

Security measures were beefed up around the Executive Yuan after last evening’s siege. Before the siege, only around 40 officers were guarding the offices. Commentators say blame for such oversight lies with the National Police Agency and National Security Bureau. 

Meeting at legislative speaker’s residence fails to yield consensus on trade-in-services pact) (2014/03/24)

With student occupation of the Legislature making it all but impossible to review the trade-in-services pact at the lawmaking body, Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng gathered lawmakers at his residence today. Discussion showed that ruling and opposition parties remain far apart. 

Joint statement from professors backs student-led occupation of Legislature (2014/03/24)

Among the students’ biggest supporters are the professors who teach them. A group of professors issued a joint statement today slamming the Ma Ying-jeou administration’s handling of the student occupation. They also called for a “citizen’s constitutional conference,” though Premier Jiang Yi-huah later said he was unsure of the nature of such a meeting. 

Stabilization Fund Ready (2014/03/24)

Mounting protests over the cross-strait trade-in-services pact led investors to fear a steep decline for local shares. Today, the Ministry of Finance stepped forward to say it will uphold normal market function. In other words, the National Stabilization Fund is ready if it needs to intervene. 

Ignored by the president, students call for wider action (2014/03/21)

Students continue to occupy the Legislature over their opposition to a trade-in-services pact that Taiwan signed with China. With President Ma Ying-jeou failing to meet their demands, the students are urging all people to join in nationwide protests tomorrow at KMT offices. 

Amid student occupation, legislative speaker urges president to listen to the people (2014/03/21)

President Ma Ying-jeou hoped to find a solution to the student-led occupation in a meeting between leaders of the executive and legislative branches on Friday. But Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng did not attend. Wang felt it was inappropriate for him to join the meeting and said that Ma should instead negotiate with opposition parties and listen to the people.

Opposition party backs speaker’s decision to skip meeting with president (2014/03/21)

Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng’s decision to skip the meeting with President Ma Ying-jeou was supported by opposition leaders. The head of the DPP also vowed to defend the students during their occupation. 

Security Reinforced (2014/03/21)

The student occupation of the Legislature has security forces on edge. From midday today, police began to increase traffic restrictions in Boai Special District, where the Presidential Office is located. 

Critics fear that trade-in-services pact will turn Taiwan into a second Hong Kong (2014/03/21)

One fear associated with the cross-strait trade-in-services pact is that it sends Taiwan further down the path toward unification with China. Critics compare the pact, and the Economic Cooperation Free Trade Agreement the Ma Ying-jeou administration previously signed, with treaties between Hong Kong and the mainland. They believe that the problems Hong Kong has faced during its integration with the PRC could likewise be felt in Taiwan. ##