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Nation lacks resources for a nuclear disaster: report

Sunday, 28 November 2021 06:07 Taipei Times

More than 1,000 pairs of shoes are lined up at the entrance of Liberty Square in Taipei yesterday. The National Nuclear Abolition Action Platform laid out the shoes to signify rejection of restarting construction on the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant.
Photo: CNA

Taiwan has less funds available and less robust disaster-response procedures than Japan in the event of a nuclear disaster, Control Yuan member Tien Chiu-chin (田秋堇) said on Friday.

Taiwan ‘force for good’: US delegate

Saturday, 27 November 2021 06:23 Taipei Times

President Tsai Ing-wen, right, looks on as US Representative Mark Takano speaks to the media at the Presidential Office in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: AP

The leader of a US congressional delegation to Taiwan praised the nation as a “force for good” in the world during a meeting with President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday, and said that under her administration, ties with the US were more productive than in prior decades.

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The New Power Party (NPP) yesterday reiterated its doubts over draft labor law amendments, saying there is no need to revise the Labor Standards Act (勞動基準法), which has raised the average salary and lowered total working hours without affecting the nation’s competitiveness.

Following the implementation of the “one fixed day off and one flexible rest day” workweek law in December last year, the average salary has increased and total working hours have been reduced without affecting business competitiveness, NPP Legislator Kawlo Iyun Pacidal said.