The Aboriginal Traditional Culture and Arts Enhancement Project in Hualien County’s Guangfu Township (光復) is to serve as a culture and history research base for indigenous people in the area, Council of Indigenous Peoples Minister Icyang Parod said at a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday.
The project, proposed in 2012, went through 14 rounds of bidding until it secured a contractor last year.
The council is to allocate NT$179.75 million (US$6.1 million) for the project, making it the biggest council-funded project to date.
The project is expected to be completed by the end of next year.
Village council chairperson Tsai Yi-chang (蔡義昌) said that
The Yilan County Government’s zone expropriations in Luodong Township (羅東) has raised questions about their implementation, with suspicions falling on several county officials because of how they were able to expropriate land so easily.
According to the government, zone expropriation is development undertaken with the cooperation of the landowners, and yet land is often expropriated or rezoned irrespective of their wishes. Small landowners might not qualify for land compensation, or might only receive compensation in the form of cash.
In some cases, land expropriated through excess condemnation private property taken for public use through condemnation under eminent domain of
By Lin Ching-lun, Chiang Chih-hsiung and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer and CNAYilan County Commissioner Lin Tzu-miao （林姿妙） of the Chinese Nationalist Party （KMT） and other county government officials were yesterday summoned by the Yilan District Prosecutors’ Office as part of an investigation into a suspected corruption case.
Yilan County Commissioner Lin Tzu-miao (林姿妙) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and other county government officials were yesterday summoned by the Yilan District Prosecutors’ Office as part of an investigation into a suspected corruption case.
Prosecutors’ office personnel searched more than 30 locations before 1pm yesterday including Lin’s government-assigned housing, her private residence, and Yilan County and Bureau of Land Administration Director Yang Chung-ming’s (楊崇明) office.
Prosecutors said the search was conducted in conjunction with officials from the Ministry of Justice’s Agency Against Corruption, and the search warrants were approved by the county district court.
The agency has not provided more