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COVID-19: Police probe if celebrity’s post came from content farm

Monday, 30 May 2022 05:33 Taipei Times

Criminal Investigation Bureau Deputy Director Huang Chia-chi, center, speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Police are investigating whether an alleged piece of disinformation posted on Facebook by TV celebrity Antony Kuo (郭彥均) originated from a content farm.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Kuo shared a conversation that he allegedly had with a doctor friend in which the doctor said he had not rested one day since April 5 due to an increasing number of COVID-19 cases.

Take Chiang off cash: commission

Sunday, 29 May 2022 05:28 Taipei Times

A NT$200 banknote and coins bearing the likeness of Chiang Kai-shek are displayed in Taipei in an undated photo.
Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times

Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) should be removed from Taiwanese banknotes and coins, the Transitional Justice Commission said in its final report as the ministy-level organization prepares to close tomorrow.

Chiang’s likeness should be removed from coins and notes when the central bank carries out a redesign of the nation’s currency, said the report, an official copy of which was handed to Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) by the commission’s acting minister Yeh Hung-ling (葉虹靈) at a ceremony in Taipei on Friday.

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Economist Derek Scissors is urging Taiwan to diversify its international investment portfolio and seek a bilateral investment treaty with the US.

Scissors, a research fellow with the Asian Studies Center at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, says that the US and Taiwan have an extraordinarily intense trading relationship.

With a population of 23 million, Taiwan is the US’ ninth-largest trading partner. However, excluding the microstates, it is actually the US’ third-largest trading nation on a “per person” basis.