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PETALING JAYA: About 300 investors are demanding back their total capital worth almost RM90mil from a company believed to be operating an investment scheme illegally.
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday urged the government not to raise electricity rates, while the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said it would handle the issue with the needs of households in mind. The parties held separate news conferences amid speculation that the Ministry of Economic Affairs might raise the rates. It is scheduled to review Taiwan’s electricity pricing policy on Monday. KMT lawmakers said that increasing the rates would be a blow to households that are still affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. KMT caucus whip William Tseng (曾銘宗) said that the ministry ...
HIKE LOOMING? Both parties said households are still affected by the pandemic, while the KMT panned the government’s energy policies and the DPP called for saving energyBy Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff writer, with CNA
By Yang Mien-chieh and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerThe Consumers’ Foundation has suggested that people take their own utensils when eating out, after it found sulfur dioxide in nine out of 16 pairs of disposable chopsticks it tested.
The Consumers’ Foundation has suggested that people take their own utensils when eating out, after it found sulfur dioxide in nine out of 16 pairs of disposable chopsticks it tested. The non-profit group announced the results of its random sampling at a news conference in Taipei yesterday, saying there has been an increase in disposable chopstick use following local outbreaks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sulfur dioxide is commonly used to bleach single-use chopsticks. The concentration was between 13 parts per million (ppm) and 145ppm in samples that tested positive, which does not exceed the m...