The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family has set its budget for next year at 1.7 trillion won ($1.2 billion), marking a 9.4 percent increase from this year. However, funding for teenage sex education and initiatives to prevent the recurrence of sexual and domestic violence have been reduced. The Ministry of Economy and Finance said Sunday that the budget for programs aimed at preventing the recurrence of domestic a.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday called on the government to be more restrictive regarding the types of food that can be imported from Japan’s Fukushima and surrounding prefectures once an import ban is lifted.
The Executive Yuan on Tuesday last week said that Taiwan would soon allow the importation of food products that had been banned following the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster.
Foods imported from the five prefectures would need certificates of origin and radiation inspection certificates, while imports of mushrooms, meat from wild animals and hill potherbs from the prefectures would still be banned, it said.
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Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucuses in 22 cities and counties yesterday jointly declared that they would defend the nation’s food safety, as KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) called for changes to the School Health Act (學校衛生法).
President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration is failing to uphold food safety by lifting a ban on most food imports from five Japanese prefectures implemented after the 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster, Chu told a news conference in Taipei.
KMT caucuses held similar news conference across the nation.
The government on Tuesday announced that it would end the ban on Feb. 28.
Ensuring food safety is a
By Yang Hsin-hui and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerChinese Nationalist Party （KMT） caucuses in 22 cities and counties yesterday jointly declared that they would defend the nation’s food safety, as KMT Chairman Eric Chu （朱立倫） called for changes to the School Health Act （學校衛生法）.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday criticized the government’s plan to lift a ban on most food imports from Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture and surrounding areas, saying that the proposal was “full of rough edges” and could not guarantee children’s health.
The government announced the plan on Tuesday.
KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) on Wednesday called for amendments to the School Health Act (學校衛生法) to ensure students’ health, but his statement was dismissed by the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus yesterday as “clueless,” saying that the act already stipulates that “priority be given to local produce.”
“The DPP is the one being clueless,