The China Youth Corps directly benefited from the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) autocratic rule, which violates the essence of a political party, as well as the rule of law, the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee said in a report on Tuesday.
The corps was involved in the KMT affairs and even “drafted” young people studying abroad to serve as the party’s overseas staff from 1952 to 1969, when it was a directly subordinate to the Ministry of the National Defense (MND), the committee said.
Following its disassociation from the MND, the corps was not registered until 1989 and enjoyed a “quasi-governmental organization”
The Control Yuan has censured the Miaoli County Government and the Ministry of Health and Welfare for regulatory failures, following the death last year of an autistic man who had allegedly been beaten while a resident at a care facility for people with disabilities, it said on Thursday.
The agency on Wednesday issued corrective measures on the county government and the ministry, which it said was at fault for the death of a 28-year-old man surnamed Lee (李), who in July last year died while staying at De Fang House of Correction in Miaoli’s Zaociao Township (造橋) after he was allegedly
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday reported 49 new COVID-19 infections, comprising 45 imported and four local cases, indicating better control of local outbreaks.
Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center, said that three of the local cases tested positive while in isolation, and the overall local COVID-19 situation is gradually being brought under control.
The only new local case confirmed yesterday is the wife of a previous case No. 20,028, reported on Sunday as an imported case under investigation.
Chen said case that No. 20,028 tested positive after being released from quarantine on Jan. 31,
The Taiwan Ceramic Culture Association on Tuesday called on the Miaoli County Government to establish a cultural park to protect an archeological site in Jhunan Township’s (竹南) Shanjia Borough (山佳).
Researchers are excavating the area, where pottery made on-site and believed to be 2,000 to 3,200 years old has been found, the association said in a news release.
It has provided a guided tour of the site for county officials and local landowners, the association said.
A man named Hsieh Teng-hsiang (謝登祥) in 1983 discovered pieces of pottery and decorative stones at the site, which his son, Hsieh Chia-jung, later handed over to
FTV News on Tuesday last week published an article with the headline “New milestone for gender equality” that described how Yuqing Temple in Miaoli City changed its rules to allow female volunteers to enter its inner sanctum, an area previously only accessible to men.
Women had been prevented from entering the area due to a taboo originating from the belief that the presence of menstruating women would offend the gods.
However, women were only allowed in as workers for the traditional cleaning ahead of the Lunar New Year, while more significant tasks, such as dressing statues, are still the exclusive realm of