The government should offer relief funds to school lunch caterers, whose businesses were disrupted by the Ministry of Education’s policy authorizing schools to switch to virtual classrooms amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Huang Kuo-shu (黃國書) said yesterday.
Last year, in-person classes were canceled nationwide after the government raised the COVID-19 alert to level 3, and the government subsidized school lunch caterers for financial losses sustained from food they had bought before the schools were closed, Huang said, adding that they were compensated for lost revenue and salaries as well.
The financial losses that caterers have sustained this year, which
A Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator and former local government officials yesterday called for direct flights to Japan’s Yonaguni Island at a news conference in Taipei.
DPP Legislator Chen Ou-po (陳歐珀), former DPP legislator Lai Kun-cheng (賴坤成), and former officials from the Yilan, Hualien and Taitung county governments called for the establishment of direct flights to Yonaguni Island in Okinawa Prefecture’s Yaeyama District to develop a “Kuroshio economy.”
The Kuroshio current is a north-flowing, warm ocean current on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean basin that extends from the southeast of Taiwan proper up to the west side of Okinawa
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chiu Yi-ying (邱議瑩) on Friday urged the government to stem the illegal flow of Chinese investment to Taiwan through Hong Kong.
Chinese investors are often able to evade government investment restrictions by channeling funding through companies registered in Hong Kong, Chiu said, adding that monitoring such investments has been difficult for the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Investment Commission.
“A large amount of foreign investment in Taiwan has been coming from companies registered in Hong Kong, but where is the capital really coming from?” she said during the legislature’s plenary session. “To Chinese investors, hiring Taiwanese talent is cheap
The National Communications Commission (NCC) should propose a draft bill on digital communication to ensure that social media platforms have transparent mechanisms to review online content, legislators and media experts said on Tuesday last week.
The call came after the official YouTube channel of the Golden Horse Award-winning Hong Kong documentary <i>Revolution of Our Times</i> (時代革命), which tells the stories of the Hong Kong protests in 2019 and 2020, was shut down for six hours the day before the film’s premiere on Feb. 25, due to an alleged influx of complaints over its content.
The documentary’s official fan page on Facebook was
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Hsu Chih-chieh (許智傑) yesterday questioned the use of the “begonia” map in the armband insignia of some branches of the military.
The “begonia” map, so named because it resembles a begonia leaf, depicts an extended swath of pre-1949 Republic of China (ROC) territory, which notably includes Outer Mongolia.
Hsu said the use of the “begonia” map in the insignia symbolizes a “greater China mindset,” and urged the military to change it.
New insignia could use images symbolic of Taiwan, such as the Formosan black bear or the Taiwan blue magpie, Hsu said.
Hsu was speaking at a meeting