Bits from Taipei newspaper today: The Executive Yuan has made - TopicsExpress

Bits from Taipei newspaper today: The Executive Yuan has made attracting more tourists from China, Hong Kong and Macau one of its major economic stimulus measures, with an aim to generate more than NT$73 billion (US$2.44 billion) in tourism revenue. The hurried rollout of a ban on the live slaughter of poultry has been met with strong criticism from the chicken industry, who yesterday said the policy only aided large slaughterhouses, and would lead to monopolization of the industry while devastating the variety of native chicken breeds that enrich the nation’s food culture.There is a golden time period to achieve the best quality chicken, Japan has more than 3,000 local, small-sized slaughterhouses that apply electrical shock methods to Japan’s native chickens, which account for only about 5 percent of their chickens in total, said Frida Tsai (蔡培慧), Misdiagnosing medical problems: taipeitimes/News/taiwan/archives/2013/06/08/2003564285 how to undergo a personal renaissance.Distinguished doctor finds joy in the diversity of life taipeitimes/News/taiwan/archives/2013/06/08/2003564291 President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) urged concerned parties to put aside territorial disputes over the islands and jointly develop resources in the region, while repeating his call for the parties to shelve the territorial dispute. Taiwan, Japan and China all claim sovereignty over the Diaoyutais, which are known as the Senkaku Islands in Japan. Chinese Wild Bird Federation chairman Lin Shih-chung (林世忠) said, adding that the global population of black-faced spoonbills has risen from 300 to nearly 3,000 over the past 20 years. Madcap escape attempt (by raft) fails after hour taipeitimes/News/taiwan/archives/2013/06/05/2003564032