Taipei, July 21 (CNA) The Taipei High Administrative Court on Thursday ruled that a Taiwanese national and his Japanese partner should not have been prevented from registering their same-sex marriage with a local household registration office.
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The Atomic Energy Council (AEC) yesterday said it would seek “all possible judicial remedies” to overturn a Supreme Administrative Court ruling exempting Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) from paying a NT$30 million (US$1 million) fine for failing to remove low-level nuclear waste from Orchid Island (Lanyu, 蘭嶼).
“It was regrettable that the court ruled in favor of Taipower,” the council said. “The court apparently cited the wrong regulations and failed to take into account key evidence that could affect the ruling. We believe that certain issues remain unexplained and unclarified through judicial procedures, and on May 5, we filed an appeal to
UNMOVED: The court failed to account for key evidence in exempting Taipower from a fine for failing to propose sites to relocate nuclear waste on Orchid Island, the AEC saidBy Yang Kuo-wen and Wu Po-hsuan / Staff reporters
Taipei, June 29 (CNA) The Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) has opposed granting the Siraya and other Pingpu tribes constitutionally-protected Indigenous status which entitles the 16 officially recognized Indigenous peoples in Taiwan to specific privileges.
Taipei, June 14 (CNA) Taiwan's Supreme Administrative Court overruled previous rulings on Monday as it found nine local independent power producers (IPPs) to be guilty of engaging in concerted practices in a drawn-out fair trade case.
Nine local independent power producers were found guilty of concerted practices by the Supreme Administrative Court on Monday as it overruled previous rulings in a drawn-out fair-trade case.
The court sided with the Fair Trade Commission, saying in its verdict that the joint action of the power firms — which account for 76 percent of state-owned Taiwan Power Co’s (Taipower, 台電) outsourced electricity — had prohibited normal market competition, disrupting supply and demand.
The nine firms, which have provided electricity to Taipower since 1995 to help ensure stable supply, were jointly fined NT$6.32 billion (US$212.74 million at the current exchange rate) by
Discussion of the issue in Taiwan has recently intensified after a landmark court ruling in September 2021 allowed a transgender woman to change the gender on her ID without proof of surgery, the first such case in the country.