Legislature passes bill to expand students role in school meetings
05/11/2021 04:50 PM
The Legislature. CNA file photo
Taipei, May 11 (CNA) The Legislative Yuan on Tuesday passed legal amendments mandating that senior high school students make up at least eight percent of the participants at school management meetings, while also expanding a system through which students can appeal policies which they believe harm their interests.
The first of the measures, which will take effect on Oct. 1, was proposed by members of the Taiwan People s Party and ruling Democratic Progressive Party with the aim of giving students a greater role in influencing decisions that affect their future.
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Court finds grounds to allow international same-sex marriages
03/04/2021 11:11 PM
Taiwanese gay rights activist Chi Chia-wei (祁家威) / CNA file photo
Taipei, March 4 (CNA) The Taipei High Administrative Court on Thursday revoked a decision by a household registration office not to permit a same-sex marriage involving a foreign national from a country in which such marriages are illegal, and proposed alternate legal grounds on which the marriage could be performed.
In the case in question, Taipei s Daan District Household Registration Office refused to permit the marriage of Taiwanese gay rights activist Chi Chia-wei (祁家威) and his Malaysian partner when they attempted to do so on May 24, 2019.