Category: Legal Matters

United States Senator Tammy Duckworth has arrived in Taiwan for a three-day visit, during which she will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen (???) and other senior government officials, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Monday.The senator arrive…

Taiwan’s independent Legislator Freddy Lim (???) said Wednesday that he will attend the June 9-10 Copenhagen Democracy Summit, where he will discuss standing up to authoritarian bullying from China with foreign parliamentarians.Lim said on social media…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, announced plans Wednesday to sell NT$6.1 billion (US$205 million) in unsecured corporate green bonds to finance environmentally friendly projects in construction and…

Taiwan is likely to record over 10,000 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday and is on track to hit a peak of between 40,000 and 100,000 new cases per day, according to Health Minister Chen Shih-chung (???).Chen made the estimate at the Central Epidemic Comma…

Kaohsiung City government and Tokyo-based Odakyu Electric Railway Co. signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Tuesday that aims to provide more user-centric transportation and travel services for both sides.Kaohsiung City and Odakyu, which operat…

Taoyuan District Court on Tuesday handed down multiyear prison sentences to two former Taoyuan International Airport Corp. (TIAC) employees convicted of soliciting bribes from a contractor during the expansion of the airport’s Terminal 2.Lin Wen-chen (…

Lawmakers across party lines on Friday voted to approve a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age in Taiwan from 20 to 18, making it the first proposed revision to the Constitution to cleared the Legislature since 2005.Dozens of students and N…

Taiwan’s jobless rate rose slightly in February as some temporary jobs related to the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday came to an end and job changes in the post-holiday period increased, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBA…

Asustek Computer Inc., one of Taiwan’s leading PC brands, said Monday evening on social media that shipments of the company’s products to Russia were at “an effective standstill” and the company plans to donate to relief efforts in Ukraine.Following Ec…

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan will present a new introspective piece “Send in a Cloud,” a work that is being developed to reflect the wide range of human emotions, in April, the renowned troupe said at a press conference Tuesday.At the press event…