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Groups urge talent protection COLLABORATION COVER: Taiwan Citizen Front said that the goal of companies at a Chinese innovation competition is to poach Taiwanese semiconductor talent By Peng Wan-hsin and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer Civil groups yesterday recommended alterations to proposed regulations encouraging the establishment of semiconductor institutes, saying that China has been using cross-strait academic collaboration to steal technology. The Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee on March 22 passed a preliminary review of a bill on innovation in industry-university cooperation and talent cultivation in national key areas, which would relax restrictions and provide funding to encourage closer collaboration between sectors, facilitating research and training of highly skilled workers. ....
Trade Secrets Act to be tightened CRITICAL TECH: Economic Democracy Union convener Lai Chung-chiang said China takes advantage of legal loopholes to control local firms and steal trade secrets By Hsieh Chun-ling and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer The Executive Yuan is to draft amendments to the Trade Secrets Act (營業秘密法) to define sensitive technologies in an effort to prevent China from stealing Taiwanese trade secrets, Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chao Tien-lin (趙天麟) said yesterday. The issue was brought to Premier Su Tseng-chang’s (蘇貞昌) attention by Mainland Affairs Council Minister Chiu Tai-san (邱太三), who told Su that amendments to the act were needed to address Chinese attempts to steal critical technologies from Taiwan, Chao said. ....
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group might have lost its right to distribute the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 and the ability to fulfill a contract in Taiwan, civic groups Taiwan Citizen Front and the Economic Democracy Union said yesterday. In a radio interview on Feb. 17, Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), head of the Central Epidemic Command Center, said that last year, Taiwan was close to signing a contract to buy doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but that the deal was halted at the last moment, with some speculating that Chinese interference was to blame. On Monday last week, the center ....
HK tycoon unlikely to get residency: source TAIWAN BID: A source said Charles Heung has links to an organized crime group, while a son is in the All-China Youth Federation and his wife opposed HK protesters By Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer Hong Kong entertainment tycoon Charles Heung’s (向華強) application for Taiwanese residency is likely to founder due to his ties to Beijing, a source connected to the national security establishment said. Heung is chairman of China Star Entertainment (中國星). The former actor is perhaps best known for playing a supporting role in the 1989 film God of Gamblers. ....