The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) legislative caucus yesterday urged Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) to submit a self-review report on his COVID-19 prevention performance before he resigns to run for Taipei mayor.
The Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) Central Executive Committee yesterday nominated Chen, who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), as the party’s Taipei mayoral candidate.
TPP Legislator Tsai Pi-ru (蔡壁如) said that about 20,000 to 30,000 local COVID-19 cases are still being reported every day, but Chen is “running away” from his job without finishing it, which was irresponsible.
Chen in a question-and-answer session at the legislature on
The government should release a detailed timeline showing how it plans to achieve its goal of phasing out several types of single-use plastics by 2030, Greenpeace Taiwan told a news conference yesterday that was also attended by New Power Party Legislator Claire Wang (王婉諭) and Taiwan People’s Party Legislator Tsai Pi-ru (蔡壁如).
Many people in Taiwan’s food and beverage industry support efforts to reduce plastic use, but feel that they are receiving insufficient support from the government, Greenpeace Taiwan said.
The results of a survey conducted by the group last year showed that the main difficulties cited by business owners were a
A draft law proposed by the National Communications Commission (NCC) last month, which aims to increase the accountability and transparency of large online platforms in Taiwan, is largely based on the EU’s Digital Services Act, a digital policy expert said.
The draft digital services intermediary act, approved by the NCC on Wednesday, would impose varying levels of obligations on five categories of large online platforms.
It would also establish special provisions for platforms that have more than 2.3 million domestic users such as YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo Auctions and DCard with fines of up to NT$10 million (US$336,191) for contraventions.
Chiang Ya-chi