Week 4-Plane crash on Penghu kills dozens

Plane crash on Penghu kills dozens

By Shelley Shan and Jake Chung  /  Staff reporter and staff writer, with CNA

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

A TransAsia Airways (復興航空) plane crashed on Penghu yesterday, killing at least 47 people, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said last night.

The flight from Greater Kaohsiung crashed near the Magong Airport’s runway with 54 passengers and four crew on board, the agency said.

Minister of Transportation and Communications Yeh Kuang-shih (葉匡時) said that 47 people were confirmed dead and 11 injured.

TransAsia Flight GE222 had been scheduled to depart Greater Kaohsiung at 4pm yesterday. However, because of Typhoon Matmo it was delayed, not departing until 5:43pm.

CAA Director General Jean Shen (沈啟) said air traffic control personnel received the request from the flight for a go-around at the Magong Airport at 7:06pm, but they lost track of the flight afterward.

“It’s chaotic on the scene,” Reuters quoted Shen as saying.

The plane made a forced landing in Sisi Village (西溪), just outside the airport.

Several buildings on the ground were set on fire by the crash, but no one on the ground was injured, local officials said.

"A few empty apartment buildings adjacent to the runway caught fire, but no one was inside at the time and the fire was extinguished," said Hsi Wen-guang, a spokesman for the Penghu County Government Fire Bureau.

About 100 firefighters were sent to the scene, besides 152 military personnel and 255 police, he added.

Witnesses have said that there was heavy rain at the time. However, the CAA said that the visual range was 800 feet (243.8m), which was adequate for landing.

The agency said that it will dispatch officials to Penghu today to help with the investigation into the cause of the crash, but the investigation will be led by the Aviation Safety Council.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/07/24/2003595804

 Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA)

   WHEN-yesterday

   WHAT- A TransAsia Airways (復興航空) plane crashed on Penghu yesterday, killing at least 47 people

   WHY-not given

   WHERE-Penghu

   HOW-not given

Keywords：

   1. crash：墜毀

   2. runway ：跑道

   3. depart ：離開

   4. chaotic ：亂

   5. dispatch ：派遣

Week 3-Vietnam anti-China riot

Taiwanese firms’ losses in Vietnam riots up to US$5b

By Shih Hsiu-chuan  /  Staff reporter

Wed, May 28, 2014

The losses sustained by hundreds of Taiwan-invested firms during recent anti-China protest in Vietnam is estimated at between US$1.5 billion and US$5 billion, the Executive Yuan was told yesterday.

Vice Minister of Economic Affairs Shen Jong-chin (沈榮津) yesterday briefed a task force led by Vice Premier Mao Chi-kuo (毛治國) about a fact-finding trip he undertook to Vietnam last week.

The trip was to assess the damages caused to properties owned by Taiwanese investors when Vietnamese staged protests on May 13 and 14 against China because of its deployment of an oil rig near the disputed Paracel Islands (Xisha Islands, 西沙群島) in the South China Sea.

The latest statistics provided by Shen was that 358 Taiwan-operated factories were attacked by Vietnamese during the protests and 21 firms were set on fire.

During their visit in Vietnam, Shen visited several Taiwanese chambers of commerce and sat down with Vietnamese officials to raise compensation issues, including with Vietnamese Planning and Investment Minister Bui Quang Vinh.

Meanwhile, Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lin (林永樂) reiterated the demands that Taiwan has made to Vietnam over the attack against Taiwanese facilities at a meeting with Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy Hoang on Monday, the ministry’s spokesperson, Anna Kao (高安), said yesterday.

Lin urged the Vietnamese government to come up with concrete measures to ensure the safety of Taiwanese businessmen and expatriates in the country, compensate Taiwanese businessmen for their losses and restore Taiwanese businessmen’s confidence in investing in Vietnam, Kao said.

Separately, the second delegation of psychologists and psychiatrists organized by the Ministry of Health and Welfare departed for Vietnam yesterday to provide counseling and psychotherapy to help Taiwanese businesspeople and expatriates recover from possible trauma, Executive Yuan spokesperson Sun Lih-chyun (孫立群) said yesterday.

 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2014/05/28/2003591423

 Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-the Executive Yuan

   WHEN-yesterday

   WHAT-The losses is estimated at between US$1.5 billion and US$5 billion

   WHY-hundreds of Taiwan-invested firms during recent anti-China protest in Vietnam

   WHERE-Vietnam 

   HOW-not given

Keywords：

   1. loss：損失

   2. protest ：異議

   3. estimate：估計

   4. assess ：對...進行估價

   5. investor：投資者

   6. oil rig：石油鑽塔

   7. firm：公司

   8. reiterate：重申

   9.restore：恢復

 10. counseling ：諮詢服務