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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 appoint six to eight assistants, with publicly funded salaries of up to NT$240,000 per month per council...

It can be a further refinement to the anti-hopping law.

Democratizing Environmental Treaty Development: The Escazú Agreement in Focus Public Talk convened by: Dr. Uzuazo Etemire, Fung Global Fellow 2021-22 Associate Professor in Law, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Wednesday March 16, 2022 12.00 – 1.15 PM (ET) REGISTER HERE After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For ages, environmental law treaties have provided a basis for unified state action aimed at addressing transnational environmental issues. Traditionally, these treaties were negotiated and developed by actors of so...

Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Giriraj Singh, Minister of Panchayati Raj & Rural Development launched the SMS functionality developed wherein SMS will be rolled out to Elected Representatives (Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assemblies) of respective State / UT informing about the commencement of drone flying in their respective constituency scheduled for survey under SVAMITVA scheme. India News | Use of Technology Has Increased Transparency in Effective Implementation of Schemes: Giriraj Singh.

One former and one current Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) city councilor are under investigation on charges of fraud regarding unearned office assistant salaries. Former Keelung city councilor Han Liang-yin (韓良圻) was indicted on corruption charges on Thursday for the alledged embezzlement of NT$8.9 million (US$319,340) in public funds. Han, 64, had won a city councilor seat five times, first in 1998. He did not run in the 2018 elections due to illness and has since been retired from elected politics. Prosecutors said that Han put family members on the government payroll for most of his ...