Wed, Jan 15, 2003 - Page 1 News List

Legislature passes job-creation bills

LAST-MINUTE DEAL With only one day to resolve their differences, the major party caucuses compromised on measures to create 75,000 jobs at a cost of NT$70 billion

By Crystal Hsu  /  STAFF REPORTER

Earlier yesterday, the legislature passed revisions to codes governing civil suits allowing wives to ask the court to detain assets of adulterous husbands.

The body also adopted national state secret rules under which the government may withhold sensitive information from the public for a maximum of 30 years and lock up violators for up to seven years.

Lawmakers, however, failed to agree on proposed political donation laws that would bar them from taking more than NT$3 million in political donations a year. The ceiling for city councilors would be NT$1.5 million for the same period.

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