“The basis for our discussions about the constitutional amendments should be to defend our democracy and crack down on the abuse of human rights,” Chiang said.Under the Republic of China’s political system, the honor of the president is based on their exercising self-discipline, rather than on a balance of powers between the branches of government, he said.As such, the president has many executive privileges, but bears no responsibility, he said.The way the Control Yuan nominations were handled shows how a president can destroy the balance of power by a lack of self-discipline, he added. List of Taiwan newspapers and news sites including Liberty Times, Apple Daily (Taiwan), China Times, Taiwan News, United Daily News, and Storm Media. The pair faced each other and embraced as the flash flared. With the aid of digital technology, we can upgrade the industrial chain, which would benefit the residents of southern Taiwan,” Lai said at the National Competitiveness in Digitization — Talent Circulation Alliance in Kaohsiung.The event was organized by the Digital Information and Governance Innovation Association of the Legislative Yuan (DIGIA-LY), the American Institute in Taiwan and the Ministry of Economic Affairs to highlight industrial innovation.New and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, big data analysis, blockchain and Industry 4.0 are areas that can help transform and add more value to the city’s industries, Lai said.Hopefully, the event can help nurture more talent in southern Taiwan and narrow the rural-urban gap in human resources, he added.The Talent Circulation Alliance was established in April last year by the AIT in conjunction with several ministries and government agencies to transform Taiwan into a hub for international talent, said Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Liu Shih-fang (劉世芳), who also heads the DIGIA-LY.The government and the AIT also released a Talent Circulation Alliance White Paper last month at a ceremony attended by President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Liu added.Former vice premier Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) said that Taiwan should allocate more resources to the development of 5G and artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), and facilitate more cooperation between Taiwanese and foreign talent.If elected as Kaohsiung mayor, Chen, who is representing the Democratic Progressive Party in the Aug. 15 by-election, said that he plans to set up a committee dedicated to the promotion ofA protein isolated from hyacinth beans, a medicinal herb known for centuries, has been found to restrict the activities of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses in laboratory experiments, a team of Academia Sinica researchers said yesterday.The beans’ curative effect is documented in the 16th-century Chinese medicine classic Compendium of Materia Medica (本草綱目) and they are also a food source in some countries, the Genomics Research Center’s Chemical Biology Division Director Alex Ma (馬徹) told a news conference in Taipei.Center senior research specialist Jan Jia-tsrong (詹家琮) experimented with up to 500 medicinal herbs to see if they could restrict influenza viruses and found the extracts of hyacinth beans to be the most effective, Ma said.The researchers have since 2016 been working to identify the plant’s critical ingredient that has anti-virus effect and found it to be flt3-receptor interacting lectin (FRIL), a protein extracted from the plant’s beans, he said.“Previous studies suggested FRIL could foster the growth of stem cells.
The central government should more clearly explain the policy, he said, adding that it should reveal estimates of how many foreign patients would be entering under the policy, from which nations and for what treatments.Chiang called on the Ministry of Health and Welfare to postpone the policy’s implementation until there has been more communication and preparation.KMT Legislator Lin Yi-hua (林奕華) asked whether there were diplomatic or economic factors behind the ministry’s decision to allow foreign medical patients entry at this time.The ministry should listen to the voices of the nation’s frontlineThe Ministry of Education yesterday unveiled eight measures designed to ensure the quality of graduate theses following allegations of plagiarism and writing by proxies.The measures include establishing a mechanism for investigating schools that fail to properly evaluate theses, or fail to hold faculty members involved in thesis-related infractions responsible, and adjusting enrollment at these institutions, either by enforcing lower enrollment or even zero enrollment.The ministry would also publicly announce the ratio of theses not made public at each institution, as well as the ratio of oral defense evaluation committee members hired through “special circumstances,” as well as the school’s rationale behind hiring committee members through such circumstances.The ministry introduced the measures following recent cases in which doubts surrounding a number of individuals’ theses brought the issue of academic ethics into question, Higher Education Director-General Chu Chun-chang (朱俊彰) said.The cases also raised doubts about the quality of education at various institutions, as well as these institutions’ mechanisms for controlling the quality of students’ theses, he said, adding that the ministry hopes to resolve the issue by supervising schools and implementing the eight measures.The measures, which are to be implemented next year, aim to improve the quality of local degree programs.If a student’s thesis is called into question, their adviser would also be held accountable, Chu said.
About 52 percent said incoming Control Yuan president Chen Chu (陳菊) would not represent the people, he added. So she invited friends and strangers alike to take portraits of themselves in masks, accompanied by a handwritten note documenting their experiences. Working for the laundry service would also put the inmates in touch with a real work environment and the experience of keeping a job, which would better prepare them for their return to society, Tseng said.Yu Kuo-feng (游國豐), general manager of the laundry service, said that his company is handling linen — as well as bathing robes, towels and rugs — for 1,800 rooms in the county. “I want to tell everyone to treasure their every breath of fresh air,” the 23-year-old hospitality student told reporters after the photo shoot. “Kaohsiung is known as the city of heavy industries in Taiwan, with petrochemicals being one of them.