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Embassies use ‘Taiwan’ on their Facebook pages

Taipei Times

The words “Taiwan in the EU and Belgium” and a logo featuring an outline of Taiwan are displayed yesterday on the Facebook timeline of the Taiwan Representative Office in the EU and Belgium.
Image copied from the Facebook timeline of the Taiwan Representative Office in the EU and Belgium

Several of the nation’s embassies and representative offices have updated their Facebook pages, adding “Taiwan” to their names and profile pictures to promote the nation.

The name change was advised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Bilingual by 2030, council says

Taipei Times

Premier William Lai presides over a ceremony on Friday in Taipei to honor this year’s outstanding civil servants.
Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

The National Development Council yesterday proposed eight major policies to Premier William Lai (賴清德) in a plan outlining how to turn Taiwan into a Chinese-English bilingual country by the year 2030 to embrace global competition.

Name, ‘consensus’ make wall of lies

Taipei Times Editorial

A quote often misattributed to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels holds that “a lie repeated a thousand times becomes truth.” Sadly the preposterous nature of this appears to depict conditions in Taiwan today.

Two major lies enmesh the nation: One is the so-called “1992 consensus” and the other is the meaningless name “Chinese Taipei.” Recent events suggest just how extensive these lies have become in obfuscating public discourse.

Mistakes led to long lines at polls: CEC

Taipei Times

The Central Election Commission (CEC) yesterday said that it made mistakes that eventually led to the long lines in last month’s nine-in-one elections, adding that it would increase the number of polling stations in coming elections and review rules on when to hold referendums.

The 10 referendums held alongside the local elections on Nov. 24 were approved in October, leaving the government with less than two months to make the necessary adjustments at polling stations, whose planning had been finalized in August, the commission said in a report submitted to the Legislative Yuan’s Internal Administration Committee, which is to be reviewed today.

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