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Taiwan Briefs

Taiwan Life in Brief – November 2021

Grace Faerber/2021-11-032021-11-10

Wage Hike For Public Workers Approved The Executive Yuan in late October approved a nearly 4% wage hike for public workers, to take effect in 2022. The hike marks the biggest increase in government salary levels in over two decades, and will apply to civil servants, teachers, and military personnel. The salary adjustment comes as the…

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Taiwan Briefs

Taiwan Life in Brief – September 2020

Jeremy Olivier/2020-09-142020-09-11

Kaohsiung Elects Chen Chi-mai Chen Chi-mai of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected mayor of Kaohsiung on August 15, defeating Jane Lee from the opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Wu Yi-jheng of the Taiwan People’s Party. The special election follows the recall in June of the KMT’s Han Kuo-yu. After losing to…

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Taiwan Briefs

Taiwan Life in Brief – August 2020

Jeremy Olivier/2020-08-172020-08-14

Former President Lee Teng-hui ’s Democratic Legacy Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s first democratically elected president and first native Taiwanese national leader, died on July 30 after being hospitalized since February. He was 97 years old. AmCham Taipei released a statement joining the people of Taiwan in mourning Lee’s passing and noting his historic role in promoting…

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Taiwan Briefs

Taiwan Life in Brief – March 2020

Jeremy Olivier/2020-03-232020-03-23

Yu Shyi-kun Elected Legislative Speaker Former Premier Yu Shyi-kun, a newly elected Democratic Progressive Party legislator-at-large, was elected Speaker of the Legislative Yuan on February 1. He succeeds two-term Speaker Su Jia-Chyuan, who decided not to run again after his wife, Hung Heng-chu, announced her bid for legislator representing Pingtung County on the DPP ticket…

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Analysis, Law

Easing Rules on Foreign Professionals

AmCham Taiwan/2017-12-262022-10-19

For years, a key element in AmCham Taipei’s advocacy agenda has been an appeal to the government to ease the way for foreign white-collar personnel to live and work in Taiwan. Major progress was made in that direction with the Legislative Yuan’s passage on October 31 of an Act for the Recruitment and Employment of…

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Cover Story

Uber Runs Out of Gas in Taiwan

Matthew Fulco/2017-04-122017-04-17

Massive fines have forced the popular ride-hailing app to suspend its Taiwan operations from February 10. In Taiwan, the end of the road for Uber came swiftly. The ride-hailing app juggernaut, which is the world’s largest startup by valuation, suspended services here in February after being fined more than NT$1 billion (around US$31 million) in…

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Analysis

Many Priority Bills Delayed in Legislative Yuan

Philip Liu/2016-09-082022-10-19

Political measures dominated the year’s first legislative session. The recently completed session of the Legislative Yuan (LY) attracted particular attention as the first in Taiwan’s history in which a majority of the seats were held by a political party other than the Kuomintang (KMT). Following elections last January, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) now…

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The eight Legislative Yuan ended its for-year term in December without completing action on the government restructuring program it set out to undertake in 2010.
Analysis

Taiwan Government Restructuring Extended

Philip Liu/2016-02-172022-10-19

The restructuring program has been given two more years for completion by the new legislature. The eighth Legislative Yuan ended its four-year term in December without completing action on the entire government restructuring program it set out to undertake with passage of an umbrella law in 2010. The program, intended to streamline the executive branch…

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Taiwan’s Nuclear Waste Plan Stalled

Taiwan Business TOPICS/2015-08-102015-10-28

The Legislative Yuan in June froze the budget for Taipower’s pilot project to send nuclear waste abroad for reprocessing to give lawmakers time to review the plan. Under the NT$11.25 billion plan, 1,200 spent fuel rod bundles – 8% of the total spent fuel currently stored in cooling ponds at Taiwan’s three active nuclear power…

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Taiwan Briefs

Beef Overshadows Minister’s Visit to DC

Taiwan Business TOPICS/2015-03-022015-10-28

Minister of Economic Affairs John Deng’s visit to Washington D.C. in mid-February, the first by an MOEA head in many years, was overshadowed by his announcement that bans on the import into Taiwan of six different types of beef products from the United States would be lifted. The Council of Agriculture made the decision after…

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