Taiwanese firm at centre of ‘gutter oil’ scandal ordered to pull products

Taiwan has ordered the cooking oil supplier at the centre of a snowballing food scandal to pull all of its "Chuan Tung" lard oil products from shop shelves, even if they passed food safety tests.

The order followed reports that edible oil firm Chang Guann had blended "gutter oil" - illegally produced oil usually made from recycled kitchen waste - with fresh lard oil to produce 782 tonnes of Chuan Tung brand oil.

The scandal has rocked the food industry, with revelations that the oil was sold to more than 1,000 food manufacturers, bakeries, restaurants and night markets and used in a huge range of products, from mooncakes and dumplings to instant noodles, crackers and buns.

The scare has spread to Hong Kong, where Maxim's Group has admitted using Chang Guann oil to make 9,000 pineapple buns a day for the past three years. Yesterday, dumpling franchise Bafang Yunji said it had stopped selling curry dumplings at its 54 stores in Hong Kong because the curry paste supplier in Taiwan sourced its oil from Chang Guann.

Dr Philip Ho Yuk-yin, the Centre for Food Safety's consultant of community medicine, said the centre had phoned more than 100 businesses and sent emails to 10,000 or so others to verify whether they had used the oil. Only "dozens" returned calls and none replied to emails.

Hop Hing Oil Procurement said yesterday it had imported oil from Chang Guann. But it added that the oil was not the same type as the suspected gutter oil. The oil was supplied for bakery products and dim sum and all had been recalled.

Ho also said the centre had taken 46 food and oil samples from importers for laboratory tests. Tests on most samples have been completed. No samples were made from gutter oil.

Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released test results yesterday showing that one sample of the oil sold under the Chuan Tung brand met hygiene requirements. However, samples from two other batches - obtained by prosecutors investigating the scandal - failed the tests.

The FDA also said there was no record of Chang Guann importing gutter oil from the mainland. But the company had imported 87 tonnes of lard oil from Hong Kong and 672 tonnes from Japan.

Cabinet spokesman Sun Li-chyun said the government understood there could be "mixed feelings" about the decision to pull the products. "Even though it passed the test, [the oil] must be removed from shelves because Chang Guann used recycled oil, which is a violation of the food safety law here."

He said Premier Jiang Yi-huah had stressed that any manufacturers found to have violated food safety laws must be punished severely.

The FDA tests included scans for moulds and heavy metals.

The authorities tested three samples from the underground factory in the southern county of Pingtung that supplied the product to Chang Guann. Two of those samples had more than triple the acceptable level of benzo(a)pyrene, a carcinogenic compound. Another series of samples of pre-refined oil from Chang Guann exceeded acceptable acid value levels, as did the underground factory samples.

Chen Hui-fang, head of the FDA's research and inspection section, said it also tested Chuan Tung lard. "Our lab results show that Chuan Tung lard had been refined and, except for the heavy metal part - the test for which has yet to be completed - the lard oil met all [safety] requirements."

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Oil has many ways of entering the gutter

The term "gutter oil" first caught the mainland public's attention in 2010 when a professor in Wuhan revealed that up to 10 per cent of cooking oil used on the mainland could be made from recycled kitchen waste.

He Dongping, of Wuhan Polytechnic University, estimated then that restaurants and food stalls throughout the country used about three million tonnes of illegally produced oil every year, igniting a food scare.

Gutter oil refers to oil that is made by recovering and reprocessing liquid or solid kitchen waste scooped from gutters, waste bins or even sewers.

Structure of the Lead：

   who-Taiwan

   When-September,8,2014

   What-has ordered the cooking oil supplier at the centre of a snowballing food scandal

   Why-Not given

   How-Not given

KeyWords:

  

 supplier-供應商

 shelves-貨架

 consultant-顧問

 procurement-採購

 laboratory-實驗室

 prosecutors-檢察官

   

week 6-actor, Ko, Jaycee, drug, arrest

Jaycee Chan has been formally arrested on drug charges, nearly a month after he was caught smoking marijuana in Beijing.

The prosecutor's office, or procuratorate, in Beijing's Dongcheng district approved the arrest of Jaycee Fong Cho-ming, son of international kung fu icon Jackie Chan, on suspicion of "accommodating drug users".

This signals that authorities are moving forward with the case against Jaycee, who is currently in detention.

Jaycee, 32, was taken away by police on August 14 with his friend Taiwanese actor Ko Chen-tung, 23, for doing drugs at a foot massage parlour in Beijing.

Police recovered more than 100 grams of marijuana from Chan's home in Beijing.

Mainland media reported that Jaycee Chan admitted that he first abused drugs in the Netherlands in 2006, while Ko did so for the first time in Jaycee’s home two years ago.

The public security bureau of Dongcheng had sought the procuratorate’s approval for Chan’s arrest on September 10, the statement on Weibo said.

Chinese police need official approval from prosecutors to formally arrest a suspect. During a period of formal arrest, police can continue to investigate. If they decide to criminally charge him, a trial would follow.

The maximum sentence for allowing others to take drugs in a property, workplace or hotel is three years’ imprisonment.

Ko was given a sentence of 14 days in administrative detention after he admitted using marijiuana.

On his release, he appeared at a news conference with his parents and agent and apologised for smoking the drug. 

Jackie Chan, who was named an anti-drug ambassador in 2009 by Chinese authorities, has publicly apologised for his son’s drug use and pledged to work with him on his recovery.

A series of celebrities have been detained on drug charges following a declaration in June by President Xi Jinping that illegal drugs should be wiped out and that offenders would be severely punished.

Performing arts associations and theatre companies in Beijing have pledged not to hire any actors connected with drugs, and national associations representing film actors, directors and producers have reportedly issued a notice saying members who repeatedly take drugs will be expelled and banned from making movies.

Structure of the Lead：

   who-Jaycee Chan

   When-August,14,2014

   What-Jaycee Chan has been formally arrested on drug charges

   Why-Not given

   How-Not given

KeyWords:

   marijuana-大麻
   prosecutor-原告
   suspicion-懷疑
   imprisonment-徒刑  
   ambassador-大使
   detain-扣留
   offender-犯罪份子
   
   
   
   

week 5

The Islamist group Boko Haram has seized Chibok, the Nigerian town from which it kidnapped 276 schoolgirls earlier this year, in a show of strength that makes the teenagers’ safe release a more distant prospect than ever.

The militants attacked at about 4pm on Thursday, destroying communications masts and forcing residents to flee, according to witnesses. One described running past bodies strewn on a street.

The fall of Chibok is hugely symbolic. The town in north-east Nigeria became the centre of world attention in April when Boko Haram fightersstormed the government girls secondary school, forced students onto trucks and drove them into the bush. There was a global Twitter campaign, BringBackOurGirls, and criticism of the government’s response.

Tsambido Hosea Abana, a community leader from Chibok who has cousins and nieces among the 219 teenagers still being held, said on Friday: “Our girls are in the bush and they are killing the parents. We are talking about the lives of the parents and adults now. This thing has gone beyond anyone’s control.”

Speaking from the capital, Abuja, Abanda said he had sisters, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews in Chibok. “I’ve only heard from one. He was on his way to Chibok and he met people running away so he turned around. A villager told me he saw corpses lying in the street; he could not count them because he was running.”

He joined criticism of the military’s handling of the crisis. “They are not doing well. How can they just run away when they hear ‘Allahu Akbar’? They are handing over weapons to these boys.”

Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, claims to have carried through his promise to marry off the teenagers still being held and said they had all converted to Islam.

Enoch Mark, a Christian pastor whose daughter and niece are among the kidnapped, told Agence France-Presse “Chibok was taken by Boko Haram. They are in control.”

Mark said the attack on the town, which residents have warned of for some time, appeared to come after Boko Haram overran the towns of Hong and Gombi in neighbouring Adamawa state. “They came in and engaged soldiers and vigilantes in a gunfight,” he added.

“Some of us managed to escape. All the telecom towers in the town were destroyed during the attack with RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades]. No one can say what the situation is in the town in terms of destruction to property.”

Pogo Bitrus, chairman of the elders forum in Chibok, also confirmed the attack but said Boko Haram may have had inside information about security. “The vigilantes use shotguns and cartridges and have been short in supply, so the leader left yesterday for Maiduguri to procure more in the event of any attack,” he told AFP.

“But Boko Haram launched the attack while he was still in Maiduguri. He was due to come today, so it looks like they knew what was happening.”

Bitrus said the vigilantes were preparing for a counter-attack and troops had been deployed from Damboa, 22 miles away by road to the north-west. “I can assure you they are going to retake Chibok,” he added.

Boko Haram – whose name means “western education is sinful” – have been waging a deadly five-year insurgency aimed at creating a hardline Islamist state in the north of Africa’s most populous country. In October the government announced a ceasefire had been agreed, but the group’s leader denied this and has intensified attacks since.

Last Monday, 58 boys were killed when a suspected Boko Haram suicide attacker detonated explosives at a school in Potiskum, Yobe state.

Two weeks ago it took the commercial hub of Mubi, killing dozens and torching houses, and renamed it “Madinatul Islam” (“City of Islam” in Arabic), residents told AFP. It introduced its strict version of Islamic law, including amputations for alleged thieves.

However, in a rare setback, about 200 vigilantes and hunters armed with bows and arrows, clubs, spears, machetes and home-made guns helped the Nigerian military regain control of Mubi, which had been the biggest town under the extremists’ control.

One resident, who asked not to be named, told AFP: “I saw the Boko Haram fighters fleeing in droves in their vehicles when the hunters and vigilantes entered the town.

“Their emir [leader] was captured by the hunters and made to sit outside the military barracks that he and his men turned into their base. He had his hands tied from the back and we swarmed to have a look but we were later dispersed by the hunters.”

Mubi is the first town Boko Haram has lost since August, when it declared a caliphate in areas under its control. But celebrations were cut short when Boko Haram fighters seized the towns of Gombi, Hong and the major prize of Chibok.

Earlier this week president Goodluck Jonathan, whose leadership during the crisis has been widely questioned, announced his intention to seek another term in office, pledging to defeat the insurgents and free the schoolgirls.

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-The Islamist group Boko Haram

   When-this year

   What- kidnapped 276 schoolgirls

   Why-Not given

   How-Not given

KeyWords:

militant-激進
mast-桅杆
strewn-散落
niece-侄女
nephew-侄子
barrack-軍營

week 4--TransAsia Airways plane crash, Penghu

Taiwan: 48 dead in TransAsia Airways plane crash

Forty-eight people are dead and 10 injured after their plane crashed while trying to land at a Taiwanese airport on Wednesday evening, hours after typhoon Matmo battered the region.

The transport minister Yeh Kuang-shih said TransAsia Airways flight GE222 had been attempting an emergency landing, which the airline said was necessary because of bad weather. The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said conditions on Penghu, an island between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, had been suitable for incoming flights.

The crash left wreckage tangled in the remains of a badly damaged building. The flight had taken off from Kaohsiung, in the south of Taiwan, bound for Penghu's Magong airport.

Two people aboard the plane were French citizens and the rest Taiwanese, said the transport minister, Yeh Kuang-shih. The plane had been carrying 58 passengers and crew.

The Taiwanese president, Ma Ying-jeou, said via a spokesman that it was "a very sad day in the history of Taiwanese aviation".

Jean Shen, director general of the CAA, said Magong air traffic controllers had lost contact with the flight during its go-around, when it was around 300 feet above the ground. She added that two flights had arrived safely just before GE222.

Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) reported that the pilot had been asked to wait until 7.06pm before being allowed to make his first attempt at landing. It is not clear what caused the delay or why his initial attempt failed.

The twin engine turboprop ATR-72 was due to take off at 4pm and arrive at Magong at 4.35pm, but did not leave Kaohsiung until 5.45pm, according to CNA. It was another hour and 20 minutes before it made its initial landing attempt.

The country's Aviation Safety Council called an emergency meeting to look into the cause of the accident. Its head, Wang Hsing-chung, told CNA it was unclear whether bad weather or human error was to blame.

In its statement TransAsia Airways said it was providing assistance to passengers and their families. It had also begun assisting the CAA and ASC investigation.

It added that the plane had been in use for 13 years. It was in the hands of pilot Lee Yi-liang, who had 22 years of experience and almost 23,000 flying hours on his record, and co-pilot Chiang Kuan-hsing, who had two and a half years of flying experience and just under 2,400 hours. The flight had 54 passengers and four crew on board.

According to the Flightradar24 website TransAsia Airways had cancelled almost all of its flights on Wednesday, presumably because of the bad weather.

The defence department dispatched 200 troops to the scene to assist, Taiwan's Now News reported.

Kaohsiung municipal government told Now News it had been in touch with TransAsia and requested the detailed list of passengers and crew members. A team from the CAA, aviation experts and relatives of the victims are due to fly to Magong on Thursday.

Taiwan's weather agency said typhoon Matmo had brought gusts of up to 67mph (108km/h) as it blew through on Wednesday, knocking out power to more than 30,000 homes, before moving towards south-east China. Forecasters had warned heavy rains would continue into the evening.

On the mainland, Fujian province officials said they had evacuated 300,000 people, but the typhoon weakened to a tropical storm as it reached the area.

In 2000, 83 of the 179 on board a Singapore Airlines flight died when it attempted to take off from the wrong runway at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek international airport as a typhoon approached.

In 1998, a China Airlines jet a China Airlines jet from Bali failed in a first attempt to land at Taipei because of rain and fog, then stalled during the go-round and crashed into houses. All 196 on board and seven people on the ground died.

In 2002 all 225 people on board a China Airlines flight died when it crashed en route from Taipei to Hong Kong in good weather. The wreckage was found 45km off Penghu and investigators said the plane had broken up in mid-air.

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-passenger on the plane

   When-Wednesday evening

   What-48 people are died and 10 injured after plane crash

   Why-typhoon Matmo battered the region

   How-Not given

KeyWords:

   battered-重創的

   attempt-企圖

   wreckage-殘骸

   aviation-航空

   pilot-飛行員

   turboprop-渦輪螺旋槳飛機

   presumably-想必

   

   

week 3-Vietnam, anti-China protest, riot

At least 21 dead in Vietnam anti-China protests over oil rig

At least 21 people were killed and nearly 100 injured in Vietnam on Thursday during violent protests against China in one of the deadliest confrontations between the two neighbours since 1979.

Crowds set fire to industrial parks and factories, hunted down Chinese workers and attacked police during the riots, which have spread from the south to the central part of the country following the start of the protests on Tuesday.

The violence has been sparked by the dispute concerning China stationing an oil rig in an area of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam. The two nations have been fighting out a maritime battle over sovereignty and that battle has now seemingly come ashore.

Early Thursday morning a 1,000-strong mob stormed a giant Taiwanese steel mill in Ha Tinh province, central Vietnam, where they set buildings ablaze and chased out Chinese employees, according to a Taiwanese diplomat, Huang Chih-peng. He said both the head of the provincial government, and his security chief, were at the mill at the time of the riots, but did not "order tough-enough action".

Five Vietnamese workers, and 16 others described as Chinese, were killed during the rioting, a doctor at a hospital in Ha Tinh told Reuters. An additional 90 people were injured in the attack.

"There were about 100 people sent to the hospital last night. Many were Chinese. More are being sent to the hospital this morning," the doctor said.

The attack on the steel mill comes just two days after other mobs burned and looted scores of foreign-owned factories in south Vietnam, believing they were Chinese-run, though many were actually Taiwanese or South Korean.

No deaths were reported in those initial attacks, and the Vietnamese government has since tried to crack down on protesters. More than 600 have been arrested since Tuesday.

The protests have sparked an exodus of Chinese nationals, many of whom have fled to neighbouring countries or further.

More than 600 are believed to have gone to Cambodia, while scores gathered at Ho Chi Minh airport and bought one-way tickets to Malaysia,Taiwan, Singapore and China.

On Thursday, China's embassy in Vietnam urged the police to take "effective measures" to protect Chinese citizens' safety and legal rights. China's tourism administration urged Vietnam-bound tourists to carefully consider their plans, while Taiwan's ministry of foreign affairs was printing thousands of stickers saying "I am from Taiwan" in Vietnamese and English and distributing them to local Taiwanese business owners, to help them avoid the wrath of anti-China mobs.

Anti-Chinese sentiment, while never far below the surface in Vietnam, has hit a formidable peak since Beijing's deployment of the oil rig in disputed waters in the South China Sea on 1 May.

In an attempt to assert sovereignty Vietnam quickly sent a flotilla of ships to the area; these became involved in skirmishes with 80 Chinese boats sent to protect the oil rig. China accused the Vietnamese ships of ramming its vessels after the Chinese fleet deployed water cannon against the Vietnamese. On Wednesday China reportedly sent two amphibious ships equipped with anti-air missiles as further defence.

The Vietnamese government has issued stark warnings to the Chinese that this "aggression", which had to date been met with Vietnamese diplomacy, would turn ugly if it continued.

Vietnam would "make no concession to China's wrongful acts", Major General Nguyen Quang Dam, the coast guard commander, told local media. He said: "Their violent acts have posed serious threats to the lives of Vietnamese members of law enforcement."

An article in the English-language daily Vietnam News was just as blunt: "The Vietnamese people are angry. The nation is angry. We are telling the world that we are angry. We have every right to be angry. "

"Over thousands of years we have shown we never cease fighting aggressors. We are proud of our freedom-fighting forefathers, and resistance is in our blood. We are a small country, but we are not weak. We will stand as one, united in the cause of protecting our motherland's integrity."

China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, urged Vietnam "not to attempt to further complicate and aggravate the current maritime friction", according to the state-run Global Times newspaper.

The paper said that Wang told Indonesia's foreign affairs minister, Marty Natalegawa: "China's position on safeguarding its legitimate sovereign rights and interests is firm and clear and will not change." .

On Thursday night China's top military leader blamed the Obama administration's new focus on Asia for various disputes in the East and South China seas, saying "some neighbouring countries" are using it as an opportunity to provoke problems.

Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing. He defended China's deployment of an oil rig in the South China Sea and said Beijing has no intention of abandoning the drilling despite the protests it has spawned in Vietnam.

While China and Vietnam have considerable political and economic ties,anti-Chinese sentiment in Vietnam goes back more than 1,000 years to when it was a Chinese colony.

The quest for sovereignty and self-rule has long been a theme, as has what Vietnam sees as China's endless provocation over maritime boundaries around the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea – an area that about 10 countries lay full, or partial, claim to – because of its rich oil and gas reserves.

The recent attacks on Vietnam's factories and industrial parks could damage the country's economy. Industrial zones, like the Ha Tinh area where the mill was set ablaze, generate a third of Vietnam's total export revenue, according to Reuters.

Vietnam's prime minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, issued a message Thursday urging Vietnamese authorities to protect foreign investors. Businesses are expected to receive payouts for incurred damages.

While it seems the Vietnamese and Chinese governments each want to downplay the severity of the situation – a leaked Chinese government circular obtained by the online China Digital Times urged media to "not report on any news" regarding the protests – the repercussions are most closely felt on the ground.

"People don't feel safe here," Xu Wen Hong, a Chinese national who works at one of Vietnam's iron and steel companies and bought a one-way ticket to China, told Reuters. "We just want to get out of Vietnam. We're scared, of course. With all the factories burning, anyone would be scared."

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-People in Vietnam

   When-Thursday

   What-At least 21 people were killed.

   Why-Violent protests against China.

   How-Not given

KeyWords:

   deadliest-致命

    confrontation-對抗

    ashore-岸上

    blunt-鈍

    provocation-挑釁

    concession-讓步

    repercussion-反射

     

   

week 2- South Korea Sewol ferry disaster tragedy

Authorities in South Korea are searching for what caused a ferry to sink off the south-west coast of Korea with more than 460 passengers and crew onboard.

The ferry, Sewol, was sailing from the western port of Incheon to Jeju island - known as South Korea's Hawaii - and was carrying 339 teenage students and their teachers, among other passengers.

The cause of the incident is unknown and authorities are seeking to find out why the ship listed and flipped over entirely, leaving only a small section of its hull above water.

South Korean navy and coast guard vessels are still searching for the bodies of missing passengers, who are now presumed dead. Here is what we know so far about the incident.

Survivors said they heard a loud thump. They said the ship came to a sudden halt and started rapidly sinking.

The ship, built in Japan 20 years ago, was following a well-travelled route.

Although the wider area has rock hazards and shallow waters, they were not in the immediate vicinity of the ship's usual path.

State broadcaster YTN quoted investigation officials as saying the ship was off its usual course and had been hit by a veering wind, which caused containers stacked on deck to shift.

Witnesses have said the ferry turned sharply before it began listing. However, it is not clear why the vessel turned.

Marine salvage expert John Noble said the ship was travelling at about 18 knots and may have hit the seabed or a shipping container.

"There is a lot of evidence... that the ship hit something," he said.

"There was a thump or a thud and this would suggest that she came into contact either with the seabed or a submerged object like perhaps a container."

It took more than two hours for the ferry to capsize completely. Some passengers wearing life jackets scrambled into the sea and waiting rescue boats.

Students on the ferry were reportedly trapped in passageways by rapidly rising water.

Other passengers claim they were told to stay put by ferry crews who said it was too dangerous to move.

"The announcement told us we should stay still," one survivor told reporters.

"The ship was already sinking. There were a lot of students who didn't get out of the ship."

One student sent a text message to his mother as the ship went down saying, "Mum, this may be the last chance to tell you I love you".

Witnesses told Korean media that the captain of the vessel was one of the first to leave the stricken vessel.

According to a coastguard official in Jindo, the waters where the ferry capsized have some of the strongest tides off South Korea's coast, meaning divers were prevented from entering the mostly submerged ship for several hours.

On April 18, the captain, Lee Joon-seok, was arrested and charged with five offences, including negligence of duty and violation of maritime law. Arrest warrants were also issued for two other crew members.

Officials have warned that the recovery operation could take as long as two months to complete.

Three giant floating cranes are alongside the sunken ship, but officials say they will not be used until it is certain there are no more survivors to be rescued.

On April 21, another four crew members - three officers and an engineer - were also arrested on charges ranging from criminal negligence to violation of maritime law, according to prosecutors cited by Yonhap news agency.

Prosecutors on April 23 raided the home of Yoo Byung-un, the head of a family that owns the company which operated the Sewol ferry, in connection with the sinking.

Structure of the lead:

     WHO-More than 460 passengers

     WHEN-Not given

     WHAT-A ferry to sink off

     WHY-Not given

     WHERE-South Korea

     HOW-Not given

Keywords:
     Authorities 當局
     flip 翻動
     hazard 風險
     submerge 淹沒
     vessel 船
     
     

     

Week 1-cross-strait service agreement/pact, sunflower (student) movement

Taiwan’s Sunflower Protest: Digital Anatomy of a Movement    by Tracey Cheng

On March 18th, 2014, hundreds of students occupied the “Legislative Yuan”, Taiwan’s parliament, to protest against the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA). A network of tech-savvy volunteers immediately began to use digital tools to broadcast their message to sympathizers and the public. Soon, thousands of citizens rallied on the streets outside the parliament to support the students inside. This movement became known as the “Sunflower Movement.”

In the eyes of many students, CSSTA had been hastily signed between the respective governments of Taiwan and China without fully informing the Taiwanese public of what it entails. Taiwan’s government asserted that the agreement would boost Taiwan’s faltering economy, but students thought it would result in Taiwan becoming too dependent on China at the expense of Taiwan’s relations with other allies, and thus become vulnerable to political pressure from Beijing.

Students occupying the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan's parliament.

On March 23rd, protesters broke into the Executive Yuan building, the seat of Taiwan’s executive branch. Riot police evicted them by force. A national uproar ensued and resentment toward the government reached another level, partly fueled by the global support for the Sunflower Movement’s nonviolent protests. On March 30th, just 12 days into the movement, students organized a demonstration that saw more than 500,000 Taiwanese citizens taking to the streets in support of their cause.

The government could not withstand the pressure. In a speech, Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-Pyng accepted the demands of the protestors. The movement officially concluded on April 10th when the students who had been occupying the parliament left the premises.

The Sunflower Movement became one of the biggest political movements in the past 30 years of Taiwan history. It awoke a younger generation’s awareness about politics, democracy and the identity of Taiwan as a country.

However, what most stood out about this movement was its clever use of technology and digital media. Enabled by the fast collaboration of a self-organized group of volunteers, the movement took flight in ways never seen before and immediately garnered the attention of Taiwanese citizens worldwide in record time.

http://flipthemedia.com/2014/07/social-media-taiwan

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-Students in Taiwan

    WHEN-March,18th,2014

    WHAT-Sunflower Movement

   WHY-To protest against the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement

   WHERE-Taiwan

    HOW-Hundred of students occupied the "Legislative Yuan"

Keywords：

         parliament:國會

            sympathizers 同情者

            asserted 斷言

            legislative 立法
            garner 穀倉