The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday gave support to entertainer Antony Kuo (郭彥均) regarding a social media post he made about COVID-19, while the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus accused the KMT of “causing a scene.”
Kuo on Wednesday shared on Facebook a screenshot of an alleged conversation with a friend who is a healthcare worker, who apparently said that medical personnel had been working long hours without rest since April 5 amid the current COVID-19 outbreak, adding that “many children have passed away.”
He later apologized and deleted the post after receiving criticism.
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said on Saturday that
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislative caucus yesterday called on the Control Yuan to investigate Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) and Food and Drug Administration Director Wu Shou-mei (吳秀梅) over alleged dereliction of duty regarding a small company’s bid to procure rapid COVID-19 test kits.
The KMT on Wednesday questioned Golden Global Biomedicine Co’s (高登環球生醫) eligibility to join the bidding process to import 17 million COVID-19 screening kits.
The KMT said the company had neither the funding it only has capital of NT$2 million (US$67,431) nor the expertise, as it was a food stall before becoming a
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has proposed a bill to require the government to subsidize the Labor Insurance Fund with at least NT$80 billion (US$2.71 billion) per year to keep it from going bankrupt, KMT caucus whip William Tseng (曾銘宗) said on Sunday.
The KMT caucus called on the government to address the imminent bankruptcy of the fund, which is intended to provide retirement pensions for workers.
It proposed an amendment to the Labor Insurance Act (勞工保險條例) for the government to allocate at least NT$80 billion for the fund annually to ensure its sustainability, Tseng told a news conference in Taipei.
The amendment
Taipei, May 1 (CNA) The opposition Kuomintang has proposed a law amendment requiring the central government to subsidize Taiwan's Labor Insurance Fund by at least NT$80 billion (US$2.71 billion) per year to prevent it from going bankrupt, KMT legislative caucus whip Tseng Ming-chung (曾銘宗) said Sunday.
ALMOST THERE: Legislators said that the nation is ready to accept their plan, as the enrollment rate of five-year-olds was already 96.67% in the 2020-2021 academic yearBy Lu Yi-hsuan and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer