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The government should improve psychological counseling for athletes by amending the National Sports Act (國民體育法), former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmaker Apollo Chen (陳學聖) said. The lack of a certification system for sports psychiatrists could harm Taiwan’s professional athletes, said Chen, who is convener of the education, literature and sports division at the KMT-affiliated National Policy Foundation. More than 30 percent of international Olympians were anxious about ...

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) pays too little attention to the traditional sports of Taiwan’s indigenous communities, despite its pledge to promote indigenous welfare, a senior official at a think tank affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) said yesterday. The National Policy Foundation’s education, literature and sports division convener Apollo Chen (陳學聖) said that indigenous athletes participating in national sports competitions received NT$6,285 per person last...

The National Policy Foundation yesterday urged the Ministry of Culture to help Taiwan’s ailing brick-and-mortar bookstores with subsidies for rent and activities. Tax exemptions rolled out by the government last year did not stop the decline of stores on Taipei’s famous “book street,” said Apollo Chen (陳學聖), the convener of the culture and sports division of the think tank, which is affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). Chen said that a foundation survey showed that ...