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Cloud Computing Included as Emerging Industry: Premier WU (Chinese Version)
Commercial Times (2009/12/12) & cnYes.com (2009/12/08) After Executive Yuan's announcement of the list of Taiwan's major six emerging industries including bio-tech, green energy, medical care, cultural creative, tourism and intensive agriculture in May, Premier Den-yih WU points out at the opening ceremony of Informat
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New Medicine for AIDS about to Enter Clinical Trial Stage in Taiwan (Chinese Version)
The Liberty Times & China Times E-paper (2009/12/12) The new medicine for AIDS invented by the leading expert of the field Dr. David Da-i HO is about to enter the second stage of the trial, human experiment, in Taiwan. TaiMed Biologics Inc. announced on 11th-Dec. that the application for Department of Health'
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Taiwan Needs to Face the Climate Change Issue: President MA (Chinese Version)
President's Weekly Journal & Radio Taiwan International (2009/12/12) Through the President's Weekly Journal issued on 12th-Dec., President MA, responding to the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) at Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark during 7th- to 18th-Dec., urges the government and people, for ea
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Southern Taiwan University Invents Brainwave Page Turner (Chinese Version)
Now News (2009/12/04) & The Liberty Times (2009/12/03) Southern Taiwan University - Department of Electrical Engineering invents a brainwave reader which bypasses the paralyzed patients' physical restriction and advances beyond all the previous page turners.
The previous page turners for the paralyzed patients requ
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Academia Sinica Lecture Series to Open with Nobel Laureate Dr. Roger Yonchien TSIEN (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/12/04) Dr. Roger Yonchien TSIEN, a 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, will deliver two keynote speeches at Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University on 11th- and 14th-December respectively. The lectures are entitled "Painting cell signals with a palette of
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Academia Sinica Human Subject Research Ethics Committee Awarded Recognition Certificate (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/11/30) The Human Subject Research Ethics Committee/Institution Review Board ( HSREC/IRB ) of Academia Sinica was recently certified by an international review body as meeting one of the highest standards of ethical review in clinical research. Academician C
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Tri-Service General Hospital Presents Findings about the Contact Lenses Use in High Altitude Flight (Chinese Version)
Military News Agency (2009/11/29) Tri-Service General Hospital's ophthalmology department says, it has been proved by the novel multifunctional visual quality analyzer that discardable silicone hydrogel hyper oxygen permeable contact lenses can be used in high altitude flight,
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Green Building Labeling Policy Arrives at Remarkable Achievement after One Decade of Effort (Chinese Version)
China Times E-paper (2009/11/29) Owing to the climate disorder and the rise of oil price, more and more buildings introduce conceptions of energy saving and green building in design. According to the statistics of the Architecture and Building Research Institute (ABRI), Ministry of the
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THE UNIVERSITY IN RUINS
BILL READINGS
It is no longer clear what role the University plays in society. The structure of the contemporary University is changing rapidly, and we have yet to understand what precisely these changes will mean. Is a new age dawning for the University, the renaissance of higher education under way? Or is the University in the twilight of its social function, the demise
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University of Exeter and NTU Sign MoU; President Steve Smith Lectures on “The Role of Universities in a Time of Economic Uncertainty” (Chinese Version)
NTU Newsletter (Issue 985) Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Exeter and President of Universities UK Professor Steve SMITH and President of National Taiwan University (NTU) Professor Si-Chen LEE signed a Memorandum of Und
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A Cross-institute Team Invents Analgesic Chip (Chinese Version)
PTS News & Now News (2009/11/26) In order to reduce the suffering of the spur and neuralgia patients, a cross-institute medical research team which is led by National Taiwan University, succeeds in invention of the smallest implanted analgesic chip in the globe. Once the chip is implanted in human body, the chip can signal and sti
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ITRI Holds eBook Forum (Chinese Version)
BCC (2009/11/26) ITRI held an eBook forum on 26th-November, exhibiting its soft electrical display technology. ITRI President Johnsee LEE pointed out, the following development of eBook would not just focus on specific device; there must be integration with smart phones and mini-notebook; besides, in a short term the display would become colorful, and t
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Nine Articles from Taiwan Included in ISSCC (Chinese Version)
CD News (2009/11/25) President of National Taiwan University Si-Chen LEE in his presence at IEEE SSCS press conference on 25th-November pointed out that this year nine articles from Taiwan were selected to present at ISSCC 2009, which took 5 % of all the selected in the globe; especially, among these Taiwan articles, six were contri
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Taiwan and Russia Succeed in Launching Satellite Tatyana II (Chinese Version)
Radio Taiwan International & China Times E-paper (2009/11/25) Satellite Tatyana II, supported both by Taiwan and Russia, was already launched on 17th-September. Although this project was an cooperation between Taiwan and Russia, Taiwan was absent in the cooperation contract; only the participant universities' names w
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Older Elementary Kids Don't Like Themselves: Study (Chinese Version)
Taipei Times (2009/11/23) The older elementary school students are, the less they like themselves, a survey suggested on 22nd-November.
Yu-ju CHOU, a researcher at National Central University's Graduate Institute of Learning and Instruction (sic.), conducts a nationwide investigation over 811 elementary students, finding
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The Common Red Algae in Neritic Zones Is Vanishing (Chinese Version)
Now News (2009/11/20) National Taiwan Ocean University held a conference representing its long term investigation about the oceanic red algae. Professor Showe-Mei LIN, Institute of Marine Biology, NTOU, pointed out that, according to her long term monitoring since 1992, Taiwan red algae's number and the length of its growth p
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Central Geological Survey: Serious Coastal Retreat Happening in Four Areas (Chinese Version)
Central Geological Survey Newsletter (2009/11/20) The project “Dynamic System for Monitoring the Geological Environments and Resources by Utilizing ROCSAT-2 (FORMOSAT-2) Images,” conducted by Central Geological Survey, Ministry of Economic Affairs, investigating Taiwan's coastal changes during the four
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Hakka Sci-tech Team Invents New Debug Method-- Microwaving the Weevils (Chinese Version)
Hakka TV (2009/11/19) Recently there is a breakthrough in rice processing technology in Taiwan has recently. In the past, chemical fumigation was the widely used method to deal with the rice weevils, but the method was not efficient and might cause the problem of chemical residues. A technology company in
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NCTU Students' Bio-robot Wan 2009 iGEM Silver Medal (Chinese Version)
NCTU-Collage of Biological Science and Technology Latest News (2009/11/12) Integrating IC design theory with molecular bio-technology, a group of students from Dept. of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, won the silver medal in MIT's 2009 international Genetically Engineered Machine, iGEM, wit
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Academia Sinica Academician Wen-Hsiung Li Awarded Mendel Medal (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/11/16) Academician Wen-Hsiung LI has been awarded the Mendel Medal by the Genetics Society of UK. Dr. LI, who is a Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of the Biodiversity Research Center, became the first Asian recipient of the award. He received the medal and delivered the
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The Legislative Yuan demanded to discard the restructuring plan for Taiwan's DRAM industry; MoEA: before the Executive Yuan reached a determination, the plan should be going on as planned (Chinese Version)
United Daily News, Economic Daily, China Times E-paper (2009/11/11), Economic Daily (2009/11/13) & Economic Daily (2009/11/15) The Ministry of Economic Affairs, MoEA, had just announced tha
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The Findings of NCTU's International Cooperated Project on Novel Green Material Presented in Science (Chinese Version)
Radio Taiwan International & NCTU Latest News (2009/11/13) A young research team from National Chiao Tung University, NCTU, participates in a cross-disciplinary international project which results in an outstanding breakthrough in developing the multi-functional green material
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Inauguration of the First Demonstration Center for Intelligent City in Taiwan (Chinese Version)
Radio Taiwan International & udn.com (2009/11/12) Institute for Information Industry, III, and IBM-Taiwan co-hosted a press conference on 12th-November, 2009, introducing the Demonstration Center for Intelligent City (trans. temp.) to the public. CEO of III Jyh-Sheng KE, GM of IBM-Taiwan Edward YU,
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New Record: 1219 Black-faced Spoonbills Visit Taiwan (Chinese Version)
Now News (2009/11/08) & The Liberty Times (2009/11/09) Wildlife conservation groups in Tainan area conduct the second black-faced spoonbill census this year on 8th-November. The number of the black-faced spoonbills visiting Taiwan for overwintering has passed 1000 and arrived at 1219, which makes a new record.
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NTU's Global Ranking Keeps Climbing (Chinese Version)
NTU Newsletter (Issue 982 & 979) After Times Higher Education Supplement announced on 8th-Oct., 2009, that National Taiwan University was ranked top 95 in its World University Rankings 2009 (http://www.topuniversities.com/), National Taiwan University was included in the Top 500 Universities announced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University on 30t
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Academician Henry Yang Elected Chairman of the Association of American Universities (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/10/30) Academia Sinica's Academician Henry T. YANG who is present Chancellor of the University of California at Santa Barbara, has been elected chairman of the Association of American Universities (AAU), a group of 62 top research universities in the United Sta
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NTU Professor Liang-Gee CHEN Awarded 2009TWAS Prize in the Engineering Sciences (Chinese Version)
NTU Newsletter (Issue 981) The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, TWAS, announced the winners of the TWAS Prizes for 2009 on October 20 evening, including the winner in the engineering sciences, Professor Liang-Gee CHEN, the Deputy Dean of office of Research and Development and the Dis
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Chunghwa Telecom's Hami Book Makes Spectacular Debut (Chinese Version)
Now News (2009/10/30) & udn.com (2009/10/28) Chunghwa Telecom's e-Book service began on 28th-October, making a spectacular debut. According to Chunghwa Telecom's statistics, over 6000 people via APP store and over 1600 people via Android Market had downloaded the reader Hamibook, and over 48000 copies of eBook had been down
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Industry and Academia Come Together to Discuss Technology, Innovation and Social Responsibility (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/10/28) Two of Taiwan's industry leaders and a top U.S. Chemist will come together at Academia Sinica on 13th-November to discuss the interwoven future of technology, innovation and social responsibility. Dr. George WHITESIDES, one of the world's top
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Academia Sinica's Research Center for Environmental Changes Predicts Large Changes in Extreme Rainfall Due to Global Warming, Especially in Taiwan (Chinese Version)
Academia Sinica Newsletter (2009/10/27) Researchers at the Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, recently predicted that the risk of extreme rainfall due to global warming is substantially greater than estimat
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