Taipei, April 27 (CNA) Amid concerns over stalled progress on Taiwan's planned purchase of Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT) COVID-19 vaccines which would include child versions, a health official said Wednesday a deal was expected to be signed "this week," though he did not elaborate on the details.
ALMOST THERE: Legislators said that the nation is ready to accept their plan, as the enrollment rate of five-year-olds was already 96.67% in the 2020-2021 academic yearBy Lu Yi-hsuan and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday proposed amending the Primary and Junior High School Act (國民教育法) to have compulsory education begin at age five.
The Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee discussed the proposal and asked the Ministry of Education to deal with the matter.
KMT Legislator Wan Mei-ling (萬美玲) and 26 others said in their proposal that the enrollment rate of five-year-old children was 96.67 percent during the 2020-2021 academic year, indicating the nation’s readiness to accept that children of that age should receive mandatory education.
KMT Legislator Cheng Cheng-chien (鄭正鈐) proposed expanding the system to include all children aged three and
The efforts of the Transitional Justice Commission, established in 2018 and set to be replaced by a “transitional justice board” under the Cabinet in May, have been portrayed as a power game between the Democratic Progressive Party and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), rather than a struggle for justice, reconciliation and inclusivity.
The Executive Yuan on Feb. 24 approved an amendment to the Act on Promoting Transitional Justice (促進轉型正義條例) that would create the board, which would review and coordinate transitional justice efforts among ministries and agencies following the commission’s dissolution.
Under the Cabinet’s plan, the Ministry of Justice would lead efforts to
Taipei, March 9 (CNA) Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top research institution, will host 10 Ukrainian scholars and students as part of Taiwan's efforts to assist Ukrainians in the wake of Russia's invasion, said the institute's president James Liao (廖俊智) Wednesday.