Members of the Economic Democracy Union yesterday urged the government to establish a platform to help protect Taiwanese working or studying in China, amid increasing social instability and Beijing’s disregard for the rule of law.
Hsu Kuang-tse (許冠澤), a researcher at the think tank, told a briefing at the legislature in Taipei that when Taiwanese in China are arrested and imprisoned for personal disputes or contravening the law, their families are often left in the dark and receive little information from Taiwanese agencies.
The Cross-Strait Bilateral Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement (海峽兩岸投資保障和促進協議) of 2012 provides a protection mechanism for businesspeople and investors,
The Economic Democracy Union yesterday proposed expanding the scope of personnel subject to cross-strait travel restrictions, saying that proposals to protect key industries would not be sufficient to curtail theft of sensitive trade secrets.
The Mainland Affairs Council earlier this year proposed amendments to the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例) that would require those working in “national core technologies” to apply before traveling to China.
The amendments, which have been sent to the Executive Yuan for approval, would also set a fine of NT$2 million to NT$10 million (US$71,505 to US$357,526) for
Groups urge talent protection
COLLABORATION COVER: Taiwan Citizen Front said that the goal of companies at a Chinese innovation competition is to poach Taiwanese semiconductor talent
By Peng Wan-hsin and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Civil groups yesterday recommended alterations to proposed regulations encouraging the establishment of semiconductor institutes, saying that China has been using cross-strait academic collaboration to steal technology.
The Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee on March 22 passed a preliminary review of a bill on innovation in industry-university cooperation and talent cultivation in national key areas, which would relax restrictions and provide funding to encourage closer collaboration between sectors, facilitating research and training of highly skilled workers.
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group might have lost its right to distribute the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 and the ability to fulfill a contract in Taiwan, civic groups Taiwan Citizen Front and the Economic Democracy Union said yesterday.
In a radio interview on Feb. 17, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), head of the Central Epidemic Command Center, said that last year, Taiwan was close to signing a contract to buy doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but that the deal was halted at the last moment, with some speculating that Chinese interference was to blame.
On Monday last week, the center