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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Hsu Chiao-hsin (徐巧芯) sparked a controversy for allegedly pressuring a police officer not to give her a parking ticket.
On Tuesday last week, she and her husband parked their vehicle in a no parking zone in a lane along Guangfu S Road in the capital before going into a restaurant. The officer’s body cam footage, which was later released, showed Hsu’s husband emerging from the restaurant and spotting the officer checking their vehicle’s license plate. The police officer told him that he would be receiving a parking ticket.
Hsu joined the men, pulled
Taipei, April 6 (CNA) Kuomintang (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) declared Wednesday he would press ahead with a bid for his party's nomination for November's Taoyuan mayoral election.
As the Ukraine crisis continues to intensify, the concept of “Finlandization” has been resurrected as a potential compromise for eastern Europe.
The concept refers to smaller countries refraining from policies that oppose an adversarial neighbor while nominally retaining independence, such as Finland did toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War. French President Emmanuel Macron last month reportedly suggested that the Finlandization of Ukraine would be “one of the models on the table” for defusing tensions with Russia.
Drawing a comparison between Taiwan and Ukraine, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Hsu Chiao-hsin (徐巧芯) raised the idea on a political
The Taipei City Government is working on a self-government ordinance to deal with pet sitters, officials said on Thursday, as city councilors called for better regulation of the profession.
The Taipei Animal Protection Office is mulling a licensing scheme for freelance pet sitters that would require them to undergo 200 hours of training, office director Sung Nien-chieh (宋念潔) told a city council meeting.
This means freelance pet sitters would be held to the same standards that apply to pet hotel employees, she said.
The office is consulting animal welfare groups and academics before drafting the ordinance, with an eye to publicizing details