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Taitung County councilors have opposed the Siraya’s bid to be recognized as “indigenous peoples in plains areas,” as it might accelerate the Sinicization of indigenous people. The Constitutional Court yesterday heard an oral argument for the case, whereby the Siraya, one of the Pingpu indigenous groups, requested to be recognized legally. The Status Act for Indigenous Peoples (原住民身分法) does not recognize the Pingpu, who are unable to obtain indigenous status under the existing law. Eight Amis, Paiwan and Puyuma councilors, as well as indigenous people from plains areas and mou...

The Executive Yuan on Thursday passed draft amendments to the Mining Act (礦業法) to bolster legislative protection for the environment and indigenous land rights. Mines predating January 2008 must undergo environmental impact assessments, and failure to comply or complete the process would result in penalties up to and including the loss of mining permits, Executive Yuan officials told a news conference following the weekly Cabinet meeting. This means that older mines would be made to comply with the Environmental Impact Assessment Act (環境影響評估法) if the amendments pass into la...

The Executive Yuan yesterday approved a draft bill aimed at better protecting reserved land around indigenous communities from illegal sale. The bill would give officials the authority to help return reserved land from the private sector and non-indigenous people to indigenous communities, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) told a weekly Cabinet meeting. It would also enhance the oversight and management of traditional indigenous domains, Su said. The bill bolsters the principles and intentions guaranteed under the Indigenous Peoples Basic Act (原住民族基本法), which was promulgated in ...

More than 350 streets are named after Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) or his son Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), due to an edict issued during the nation’s authoritarian era, a study by the Transitional Justice Commission showed. The survey of the Ministry of the Interior’s records of road names, online search engines and archival material found that 316 roads are named “Jhongjheng” (中正), a name adopted by Chiang Kai-shek, the commission said. Twenty-eight roads are named “Jieshou” (介壽) — which is an abbreviation of the slogan “long live Chiang Kai-shek” — and 11 are name...