Taipei, Sept. 24 (CNA) Two Taiwanese educators were honored at the annual Super Teacher Awards on Saturday ahead of Taiwan Teachers' Day for encouraging their students in rural communities to enjoy the outdoors and get hands-on experience farming to build character.
Kuo Hui-chun (郭慧君) is used to seeing people cheerfully plan their own funerals.
But even she was impressed by the enthusiasm and openness of the attendees at last Sunday’s “Death Cafe” session, especially with death still being a mostly taboo topic in Taiwanese society.
“The participants had many unconventional ideas, such as having the funeral by the ocean, in their home or at a place where they could then be buried together with their beloved pets,” she tells the Taipei Times. “They talked about what they would wear, which portrait they wanted to use. It was fantastic. Everyone had a great
Chung-Hsin Electric and Machinery Manufacturing Corp (CHEM, 中興電工) chairman Chiang Yi-fu (江義福) was yesterday sentenced to six years in prison for fraud in connection to procurement contracts for the domestically developed CM-32 Clouded Leopard armored vehicle.
The Taichung District Court ruled that Chiang and other executives at the firm had breached the Securities and Exchange Act (證券交易法) and that the firm had made about NT$2.1 billion (US$75.2 million) in illicit profit from the procurement deal.
CHEM general manager Kuo Hui-chuan (郭慧娟) was sentenced to a suspended jail term of two years, while deputy general manager Lee Liang-chang (李良章) was sentenced to four
Taipei, Oct. 20 (CNA) Taiwan Taichung District Court sentenced the chairman, president, vice president and other officials from Chung-Hsin Electric and Machinery Manufacturing Corp. (CHEM), a contractor for the domestically produced CM-32 "Clouded Leopard" armored vehicle project, to jail terms ranging from six months to six and a half years Wednesday.