Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Legislator Lai Hsiang-ling, front, and other TPP members yesterday ride bicycles as they launch her campaign for Taoyuan mayor. The legislators are to ride YouBikes throughout the campaign, in which Lai hopes to bring a “Taipei experience to Taoyuan.”
The Hakka Public Communication Foundation yesterday defended its use of a meme video created from a film about the final days of Adolf Hitler to promote Hakka cuisine, saying that it was not meant to advocate Nazism or belittle Hakka people and their culture.
The foundation issued the statement after Taiwan People’s Party Legislator Lai Hsiang-ling (賴香伶) on Tuesday night criticized the meme, writing on Facebook that the foundation should not mistake the “banality of evil” for something funny.
“We have received complaints about a short film on Hakka ciba [糍粑, sticky rice cakes] produced by the foundation in which footage of
LEARN TO LAUGH: In response to Legislator Lai Hsiang-ling’s criticism, the foundation said the clip has been widely circulated for years, so its use should not cause confusionBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
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The outbreak of COVID-19 among the tech firms in Miaoli County a complete failure by the brokers, firms and the local and central government, any one of whom could have taken action to prevent it has triggered a serious outbreak of another endemic disease: racism towards migrant workers.
The firms themselves led the way, sending around circulars that warned the workers that they would have to pay for their own COVID-19 care should they become infected. One circular I saw even said that workers who contract the virus will be liable for any harm they cause the firm.