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Two Vietnamese migrant workers have been sentenced to one year and four months in prison, and fined NT$3 million (US$104,330) each for cutting a truckload of knots from protected cypress trees, the Nantou District Court said in its verdict on Sunday. The men, surnamed Vo and Phan, were arrested in November 2020 after police caught them transporting the wood in a mountainous area in Nantou County’s Renai Township (仁愛), the court said. Their vehicle contained 93 burls, weighing 310kg, that had been cut from Taiwan cypress trees, the court said, adding that the wood had an estimated value o...

Taipei, March 27 (CNA) Two Vietnamese migrant workers have been sentenced to one year and four months in prison and fined NT$3 million (US$104,424) each for cutting of a truckload of knots from protected cypress trees in Taiwan, according to a court verdict issued Sunday.

IPOH: The Energy and Natural Resources Ministry did not consult the Perak government over proposed amendments to the National Forestry Act, says Datuk Seri Saarani Mohamad.

The case of a former National Communications Commission (NCC) official found to have caused a forest fire last year has been turned over to the Disciplinary Court after he was on Monday impeached for tainting the reputation of the government and public officials. Eleven Control Yuan members voted unanimously to impeach former NCC senior specialist Joseph Chiao (喬建中) during a review of the case, the Control Yuan said in a statement. Chiao, who had been suspended since he was indicted in August last year for contravening the Forestry Act (森林法), was then referred to the court that gov...

Taipei, March 14 (CNA) The case of a former ranking official at the National Communications Commission (NCC) found to have caused a forest fire last year has been turned over to the Disciplinary Court after he was impeached Monday for tainting the reputation of the government and public officials.