Taipei, Sept. 12 (CNA) A Taiwanese student won a gold medal in the first leg of the 2022 WorldSkills Competition in the Swiss capital Bern on Sunday, defeating industry professionals in the Prototype Modelling competition.
Taiwanese employers must allow Filipinos to take a day off to cast absentee ballots ahead of the May 9 Philippine presidential elections, the Ministry of Labor’s Workforce Development Agency said.
The Manila Economic and Cultural Office has established polls at its branch offices in Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung, the agency said in a statement on Wednesday.
As voting rights of guest workers are protected by Taiwan, employers must grant workers with Filipino citizenship one day off work to vote before the deadline for casting absentee ballots, it said.
As the ministry has published guidelines for the safe management of guest workers during the
IMMIGRATION
<strong>13,000 move from HK</strong>
The number of Hong Kongers settling in Taiwan reached a record high last year, official figures showed. Almost 13,000 Hong Kongers secured the right to stay last year, the National Immigration Agency said. About 11,173 of those acquired short-term residency, while 1,685 received permanent residency, data showed. That followed a doubling of the number in 2020 compared with the year before, with 10,813 people granted short-term residency visas. The previous record was 7,506 in 2014 during the pro-democracy “Umbrella movement” protests. Although Taiwan does not have an asylum or refugee law, nor does it accept refugee applications,
Taipei, Jan. 19 (CNA) A Ministry of Labor official is encouraging migrant workers to sign up for an annual model foreign worker competition to win cash prizes and meet with Taiwan's president.
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