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The New Taipei City District Court has sentenced Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) New Taipei City Councilor Wang Shu-hui (王淑慧) to nine years in jail and revoked her right to vote for five years, after finding her guilty of illegally appropriating more than NT$3 million (US$108,601) in government wages over an 11-year period. Wang had fraudulently claimed NT$3.35 million since Dec. 25, 2010, by listing relatives as office staff to collect their wages and other government subsidies, the court said in a statement on Thursday, adding that the sentence can be appealed. During the first sess...

Association calls for support for content creators By Angelica Oung / Staff reporter Taiwanese content creators need to join forces or face “cultural annihilation,” the New Media Entertainment Association said yesterday after it launched a project to align small media companies vertically and horizontally. Association chairman Homme Tsai (蔡嘉駿) said in a statement that the arrival of “the streaming age” threatens to sweep Taiwanese content creators away. “We are like 10,000 little fishing boats going up against a naval carrier,” Tsai said, describing the predicament of cont...