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The Taipei District Court on Wednesday ruled that Alexander Health Club Group, the operator of a defunct chain of health clubs, must pay more than NT$256 million (US$9.18 million) to its former members for on Dec. 10, 2007, shutting down all of its 21 branches without prior notice. The ruling comes 14 years after the Consumers’ Foundation in January 2008 filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 8,564 former members of Taiwan’s once-leading health group chain, seeking NT$582 million in punitive damages from the owners of the company. At the time of its closure, the company ran 16 Alexander...

Taipei, Feb. 16 (CNA) The Taiwan Taipei District Court ruled on Wednesday that the Alexander Health Club Group, which once ran the leading Taiwanese chain of health clubs, must pay over NT$256 million (US$9.19 million) to its former members for shutting down all of its 21 branches in December 2007 without prior notice.

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Human rights advocates and several Taipei city councilors yesterday accused Taipei Rapid Transit Corp (TRTC, 臺北捷運) of political censorship, after it reportedly rejected an advertisement that mentioned “China” and “Lee Ming-che” (李明哲). Amnesty International Taiwan had planned to post a comic advertisement on Taipei’s MRT lines on Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, to increase public awareness about Lee, a human rights advocate who has been detained in China since 2017, association secretary-general Chiu E-ling (邱伊翎) said. However, before it would approve its use, the compa...

POLITICAL BIAS? Independent Taipei City Councilor Lin Liang-jyun said the operator approved Amnesty Taiwan’s ‘write for rights’ ad, but not its ‘write to Lee Ming-che’ adBy Yang Hsin-hui / Staff reporter