The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) yesterday slammed China for sanctioning Representative to the US Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) and six other Taiwanese officials for being “diehard separatists,” saying its attempt to intimidate Taiwanese would backfire.
China has no authority to dictate the actions of Taiwanese, because Taiwan is a democratic nation that upholds the rule of law, and would never yield to intimidation and threats from an authoritarian regime, ministry spokeswoman Joanne Ou (歐江安) told a news conference in Taipei.
China’s state-run Xinhua news agency earlier yesterday reported that the Taiwan Work Office of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee has imposed
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New Power Party Chairwoman Chen Jiau-hua, front, and others protest in front of the Executive Yuan in Taipei yesterday. Chen called on the government to take action against the illegal home rental market, as most lodgers in illegal dwellings cannot risk applying for rental subsidies as housing costs rise.
New Power Party (NPP) Chairwoman Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華) and conservationists on Thursday condemned pigeon racing, citing a high death rate of birds during the events.
Chen urged the government to look into “abuses” of race pigeons, saying that offshore events had a death rate of more than 98 percent, with large numbers of dead birds found in the water after such races.
A documentary film produced by US group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in 2013 and 2014 showed Taiwanese ships releasing pigeons 320km away from the nearest shore, from where the orientation-savvy birds had to fly back home, Chen
Animal rights advocates on Thursday called on the government to consider the needs of land crabs before planning construction projects or maintenance work, as crabs in Kenting National Park (墾丁國家公園) are often at risk when they cross Provincial Highway 26 to lay eggs in the ocean.
New Power Party Chairwoman Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華) held a news conference to warn about the issue as the land crab breeding season approaches.
“Ecological assessment has been taken more seriously than before for road and river improvement projects, but still has room for improvement,” Chen said.
For instance, a road construction project led by the Directorate-General of