Legislators pledge to support Chunghwa Post staff
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Opposition lawmakers yesterday pledged to help Chunghwa Post employees receive a pay raise that was proposed and approved by the company’s board of directors, adding that they would propose to the legislature’s Transportation Committee that the company should thoroughly enforce an “equal work, equal pay” policy.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷), Taiwan People’s Party Legislator Lai Hsiang-ling (賴香伶), and New Power Party legislators Chiu Hsien-chih (邱顯智) and Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華) attended a protest against pay inequality by the Taiwan Postal Industry Union at Chunghwa Post’s headquarters in Taipei.
Virus Outbreak: The Lalu outdoes resort peers as urban hotels suffer
BORDER BENEFITS: The Lalu saw an average daily room rate of NT$14,474 during the first three quarters of last year, despite an occupancy rate of only 67.2 percent
By Crystal Hsu / Staff reporter
Luxury hotel The Lalu (涵碧樓) last year outperformed its peers in revenue per available room (RevPAR), as resort facilities benefited from a boom in domestic tourism, while urban hotels were hit hard by fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey by Colliers International Taiwan (高力國際) showed yesterday.
The Lalu, near Nantou County’s Sun Moon Lake (日月潭), achieved a RevPAR of NT$9,727 (US$342.42) in the first three quarters of last year, followed by the nearby Fleur de Chine Hotel (雲品溫泉酒店) with NT$5,938 and the Silks Place Taroko (太魯閣晶英酒店) in Hualien County with NT$5,915, the quarterly survey found.
Su did not give tax number for book purchase: store
COMIC FUROR: The Cabinet’s tax ID number was printed on the receipt, as a staffer had told the shop to do so, but to avoid any misunderstanding, it would be exchanged
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with CNA
The Taiwan Comic Base yesterday said that Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) did not give a tax identification (ID) number when making a purchase at its comics shop on Sunday, after accusations that he was going to claim reimbursement for a personal purchase.
The Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) in a statement on Sunday said that Su had toured the four-story Taiwan Comic Base in Taipei earlier in the day to support original comics from Taiwan and to encourage culture-related spending.
Premier Su buys nine comic books to show support for local creative works
By Wu Po-hsuan / Staff reporter
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday showed his support for original creative works by Taiwanese artists by purchasing comic books with Triple Stimulus Vouchers.
Taiwanese could pay NT$1,000 to receive NT$3,000 in stimulus vouchers in a program launched by the government in July to spur consumer spending, which has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of the year.
While visiting the Taiwan Comic Base in Taipei’s Datong District (大同), Su said he has already spent all of his vouchers, so he borrowed the vouchers from his daughter to buy comic books that he promised to take back to his granddaughter.