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The Ministry of Transportation and Communications has shelved a long-term plan to change the name of China Airlines (CAL) due to the difficulties that the airline has encountered when dispatching cargo planes decorated with Taiwanese images, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) told a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday. “In the short and medium term, we will ensure that the airline’s cargo planes have no trouble flying to oth...

Taipei, April 6 (CNA) Kuomintang (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) declared Wednesday he would press ahead with a bid for his party's nomination for November's Taoyuan mayoral election.

Lawmakers across party lines are proposing amendments to relax regulations on how city councilors use public funds to hire assistants, in an effort to prevent local council members from corruption and fund misappropriation that leads to self-benefit. The Regulations on Allowances for Elected Representatives and Subsidies for Village Heads and Wardens (地方民意代表費用支給及村里長事務補助費補助條例) states that city councilors in the six special municipalities can each appo...

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Taipei, Dec. 21 (CNA) The extension of a transaction tax cut for day trading for another three years to the end of 2024 has been approved by the Legislative Yuan after lawmakers passed an amendment to the Securities Transaction Tax Act on Tuesday.

The Legislative Yuan yesterday passed an amendment to the Securities Transaction Tax Act (證券交易稅條例) that extends a tax cut on day-trading transactions through the end of 2024. The cut — which reduces taxes on traders buying stock and selling it later in the same session from 0.003 percent to 0.0015 percent — had been set to expire on Friday next week. Seeking to boost market liquidity and higher turnover, while attracting more investors, the government first implemented the tax ...

The Council of Indigenous Peoples and the Hakka Affairs Council should take advantage of the popularity of <i>Seqalu: Formosa 1867</i> (斯卡羅) and <i>Gold Leaf</i> (茶金) — two period dramas produced in Taiwan — to develop more tours to Aboriginal and Hakka villages, lawmakers said yesterday. Council of Indigenous Peoples Minister Icyang Parod and Hakka Affairs Council Minister Yiong Con-ziin (楊長鎮) were yesterday were invited to a meeting of the legislatu...

Newly passed law amendment allows fines for same-sex harassment 12/29/2020 04:48 PM Illustrative photo from Unsplash Taipei, Dec. 29 (CNA) Taiwans Legislature on Tuesday passed an amendment to a law on sexual harassment to expand the penalty to same-sex perpetrators. Under the amended act, verbal sexual harassment is punishable by a fine of up to NT$6,000 (US$213.25), regardless of the perpetrator and victims gender. Prior to the Legislatures passage of the amendment bill Tuesday, Article 83 of...