Minister without portfolio named new Cabinet spokesman
02/18/2021 01:53 PM
Taiwan’s new Cabinet spokesperson Lo Ping-cheng. CNA file photo
Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) The Executive Yuan on Thursday named Minister without Portfolio Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) as the new Cabinet spokesman, three months after his predecessor resigned over a false comment he made that an award-winning restaurant was selling beef tainted with the animal feed additive ractopamine.
Lo will continue to serve concurrently as minister without portfolio in charge of overseeing interior affairs, judicial, national defense, diplomacy and social security issues, a post in which he has served since September 2017, according to the Executive Yuan.
Cabinet approves space development promotion act
02/18/2021 05:12 PM
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A rocket carrying the Formosat-7 lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the United States June 25, 2019. CNA file photo
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Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) The Cabinet on Thursday approved a draft act regulating space-based activities and promoting the development of space-related industry.
The approval of the draft act on space development promotion, the first of its kind in Taiwan, highlights the country s ambition to keep up with international trends and usher in a new era for space technology development, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said at a Cabinet meeting.
Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) Taiwan's pork consumption, so far this year, has been largely unchanged from the same period of last year, despite the government's decision to allow imports of U.S. pork containing the feed additive ractopamine, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said Thursday.
Taipei, Feb. 18 (CNA) Taiwan's Cabinet on Thursday approved a draft act regulating space-based activities and promoting the development of space-related industries.
Plan to create digital development ministry to be sent to Legislature
02/17/2021 10:28 PM
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Taipei, Feb. 17 (CNA) A proposal for the establishment of a Ministry of Digital Development will be submitted to the Legislative Yuan during the current plenary session, a Cabinet official said Wednesday.
According to the Executive Yuan s plan, the ministry will be tasked with supervising the information and communication technology industry as well as network infrastructure construction and management of information and communication security.
The digital development ministry will incorporate the business of various government agencies, such as the National Communications Commission (NCC) and Department of Posts and Telecommunications under the Ministry of Transportation and Communication, the Industrial Development Bureau under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Department of Information Management under the National Development Council and the Cabinet s Department of In