The Taichung City Government has advised caution when using dating services, after consumer complaints rose 40 percent annually last year.
The city’s Legal Affairs Bureau last year received 122 complaints involving dating service companies, up 34 from the 88 reported in 2020.
My Turn was the subject of the most complaints with 62, followed by iDating with 14, bureau Director-General Lee Shan-chih (李善植) said last week.
The average amount of money lost by complainants was more than NT$40,000, while five people allegedly lost NT$300,000 each on iDating, he said.
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The Taichung Police Department’s reorganization of police dog handlers is cruel to the animals and disrupts human-canine teamwork, the New Power Party’s (NPP) Taichung chapter said on Wednesday.
The department in November last year imposed a two-year term limit on police dog handlers and last month dismissed four of its eight handlers, NPP officials told a news conference outside the Taichung City Government building.
Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) is using police dogs as props in public relations events instead of deploying skilled working animals that require special care, said Hsu Hsiao-mei (徐小媚), the party’s regional director for the city’s South and
BUS SYSTEM TARGETED? Images from a chat group allegedly show a KMT staffer saying that a bus service for people planning to vote in Taichung should be swarmedBy Su Mu-chun, Su Chin-feng and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is suppressing young voters, Lin Ching-yi (林靜儀), the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) candidate in the legislative by-election for Taichung’s second electoral district, told a news conference at Nantien Temple in the city’s Wufeng District (霧峰) yesterday, with others accusing the KMT of planning to disrupt bus services during the vote on Sunday.
Lee Yu-chen (李雨蓁), who heads the Taiwan Statebuilding Party’s Organization Department, on Tuesday wrote on Facebook that the KMT was using “dirty tricks” in its bid to benefit its candidate, former legislator Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒).
Lee’s post included a screenshot of a chat group on
Judicial authorities yesterday detained a woman surnamed Chiang (江) and her boyfriend, surnamed Chang (張), for allegedly killing Chiang’s father.
The father, a 57-year-old security guard at an elementary school in Taichung, provided financial support for Chiang, who recently returned from the US after studying there for seven years, including a stay at a language school, police said.
Chiang was at odds with her family, as she could not obtain a diploma from a community university, as she had been unable to complete tuition payments, police said.
Chiang had been staying at a rented property with Chang after returning to Taiwan earlier this