By Chu Pei-hsiung,Liu Hsin-te and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writerThe so-called “1992 consensus” remains a political foundation on which both sides of the Taiwan Strait can hold dialogue in the best interests of Taiwanese, former president Ma Ying-jeou （馬英九） said yesterday, citing as evidence his just-concluded visit to China.
TWO-MONTH WAIT? A DPP official said people would start receiving the handouts of NT$6,000 in April at the earliest, as budget requests need to be processed first/ Staff writer, with CNA
By Wu Po-hsuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, and staff writerAn Executive Yuan task force yesterday defended a plan to boost civil defense education in schools, two days after Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） Legislator Alex Fai （費鴻泰） accused the government of “training child soldiers” on a talk show on China Television.
The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) is to tighten its review of listed companies’ capital reduction plans after dozens of firms announced reductions in the first quarter, the commission said yesterday.
The commission requires certified public accountants to justify the necessity of a capital reduction and its effects on a company’s financial structure if it plans to cut capital by more than 50 percent.
Given a rise in the number of local companies that have applied to reduce capital, the commission has asked the Securities and Futures Investors Protection Center to help review the plans on a case-by-case basis, Securities and Futures Bureau