REMEMBER WHEN: A Tainan exhibition uses ‘time travel houses’ to show what life in Hong Kong used to be like, juxtaposed against data about losses of freedomsBy Chen Yu-fu, Tsai Wen-chu and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The central bank’s second interest rate hike would further slow this year’s property transactions, which have plunged by double percentage points in the first five months amid rising economic uncertainty, property analysts said yesterday.
The monetary policymaker on Thursday hiked the policy discount rate by 12.5 basis points to 1.5 percent, but did not introduce further credit controls on real-estate lending as it seeks to combat inflation without overly constraining GDP growth.
“Commercial property transactions shrank 26 percent from a year earlier to NT$50 billion [US$1.68 billion] in the first five months, while land deals tumbled 47 percent to NT$70 billion, as
Human rights and LGBTQ+ advocacy groups on Wednesday urged the government to expedite a proposed amendment to allow all transnational same-sex couples to register their marriage in Taiwan.
Although Taiwan legalized same-sex marriage in 2019, the Ministry of the Interior has over the past two years followed a directive that prohibits same-sex couples from registering when one partner is from a country or jurisdiction where same-sex marriage is illegal.
The directive cites as its legal basis Article 46 of the Act Governing the Choice of Law in Civil Matters Involving Foreign Elements (涉外民事法律適用法), which stipulates that the formation of a marriage is