By Yang Chin-cheng and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Tainan City Government yesterday demolished an illegal building owned by the Taiwan People’s Communist Party that had displayed the national flag of China.
The Tainan City Government yesterday demolished an illegal building owned by the Taiwan People’s Communist Party that had displayed the national flag of China.
Chi Yen-ju (紀延儒), an official at the Tainan Public Works Bureau, said that a similar building at the same site in Sinying District (新營) was demolished on Sept. 20, 2019.
The bureau on Thursday last week fined the party NT$90,000 and ordered it to tear down the structure, as it contravened the Building Act (建築法) and the Regional Planning Act (區域計畫法), Chi said.
Chi said that the bureau ordered the demolition after the party did not remove the
Court rejects civil lawsuit over 2016 building collapse
Staff writer, with CNA
The Tainan District Court on Thursday rejected a class-action lawsuit filed by former residents of a housing complex that in 2016 collapsed during an earthquake.
The court ruled that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by the Tainan Public Works Bureau, which had issued the construction licenses for the Weiguan Jinlong building in the city’s Yongkang District (永康).
The ruling can be appealed.
The 16-story complex collapsed during a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck southern Taiwan on Feb. 6, 2016, killing 117 people and injuring 504.
One-hundred-and-fifteen of those killed and 104 of those injured were in the building.