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Taiwanese Executive Yuan Council recently passed a national development plan for the year 2017, and a four-year national development plan for the years 2017 to 2020, both of which will be implemented by various agencies under the Executive Yuan. Continue reading →

In 2016, Chinese Ministry of Commerce comprehensively carried out the spirits of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the third, fourth, fifth and sixth plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, profoundly learned and implemented the spirits of the series of speeches made by General Secretary Xi Jinping, thoroughly put into effect the overall layout of ‘Five-in-One’ and the strategic layout of ‘Four-pronged Comprehensive’ based on the five development ideas and in accordance with the unified deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, built a law-based, convenient and international business environment focused on promoting supply-side structural reform, and made new progress in the development of commerce ruled by law. Continue reading →

On the 6th of December, Taiwanese Legislative Yuan approved amendments to the Labor Standards Act to enforce a five-day work week and reduce working hours, a move that Executive Yuan Spokesperson Hsu Kuo-yung said will protect employees’ rights to adequate rest, prevent them from being overworked, and bring the number of national holidays in line with the Ministry of the Interior’s implementation regulations governing commemorative days and holidays. Continue reading →

Nov. 23 (US time), on the sidelines of the 27th China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, with the witness of Chinese Premier Wang Yang and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, Deputy China International Trade Representative Zhang Xiangchen, Deputy Director of National Health and Family Planning Commission Wang Hesheng and Head of U.S. Agency for International Development Smith, Assistant Minister of United States Department of Health and Human Services and Assistant Director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention jointly signed a MOU on Supporting African Disease Prevention and Control Center among Chinese Ministry of Commerce, National Health and Family Planning Commission, and U.S. Agency for International Development, United States Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Continue reading →

Participating in the Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) increases Taiwan’s visibility and allows it to demonstrate its contributions to the international community, Taiwanese Premier Lin said today after a briefing by the Ministry of Labor (MOL) on the 2016 SEWF in Hong Kong. Continue reading →