The government should improve psychological counseling for athletes by amending the National Sports Act (國民體育法), former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmaker Apollo Chen (陳學聖) said.
The lack of a certification system for sports psychiatrists could harm Taiwan’s professional athletes, said Chen, who is convener of the education, literature and sports division at the KMT-affiliated National Policy Foundation.
More than 30 percent of international Olympians were anxious about their physical and psychological conditions when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted their training schedules, Chen said, citing an International Olympic Committee survey of 4,000 athletes from 135 countries in May 2020.
The nation’s certification system for
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) pays too little attention to the traditional sports of Taiwan’s indigenous communities, despite its pledge to promote indigenous welfare, a senior official at a think tank affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday.
The National Policy Foundation’s education, literature and sports division convener Apollo Chen (陳學聖) said that indigenous athletes participating in national sports competitions received NT$6,285 per person last year, far below the average remuneration per participating athlete of NT$8,032.
The sum indigenous athletes received was also lower than the funds given to participants of national sports competitions for junior-high school and university students
The National Policy Foundation yesterday urged the Ministry of Culture to help Taiwan’s ailing brick-and-mortar bookstores with subsidies for rent and activities.
Tax exemptions rolled out by the government last year did not stop the decline of stores on Taipei’s famous “book street,” said Apollo Chen (陳學聖), the convener of the culture and sports division of the think tank, which is affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
Chen said that a foundation survey showed that the 77 ground-level shopfronts on Chongqing S Road are predominantly occupied by generic commercial establishments, including 18 restaurants, 12 banks and eight travel agencies.
Less than a