The statute governing the investigative committee probing the March 19 shooting incident (三一九槍擊事件真相調查特別委員會條例) will become effective today even if President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) fails to promulgate it.
The pan-blue camp has not waited for Chen's signature and is about to finalize its list of recommended committee members.
The statute stipulates that the committee members will be recommended in proportion to party caucus size, so the pan-blue camp can recommend nine of the 17 members.
Former deputy minister of national defense Chen Chao-ming (
It is understood that the committee members will choose Shih as the convener.
"According to the statute, the president needs to accredit the committee members within five days after the parties have made their recommendations, but if he doesn't, the members' postings will become effective automatically. So even if President Chen does not accredit the members, the committee can still operate according to the statute," KMT caucus whip Huang Teh-fu (黃 德福) said yesterday.
Considering that most countries issue more than five denominations of banknotes, the central bank has decided to redesign all five denominations, the bank said as it prepares for the first major overhaul of the banknotes in more than 24 years. Central bank Governor Yang Chin-lung (楊金龍) is expected to report to the Legislative Yuan today on the bank’s operations and the redesign’s progress. The bank in a report sent to the legislature ahead of today’s meeting said it had commissioned a survey on the public’s preferences. Survey results showed that NT$100 and NT$1,000 banknotes are the most commonly used, while NT$200 and NT$2,000
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday reported the first case of a new COVID-19 subvariant — BA.3.2 — in a 10-year-old Singaporean girl who had a fever upon arrival in Taiwan and tested positive for the disease. The girl left Taiwan on March 20 and the case did not have a direct impact on the local community, it said. The WHO added the BA.3.2 strain to its list of Variants Under Monitoring in December last year, but this was the first imported case of the COVID-19 variant in Taiwan, CDC Deputy Director-General Lin Ming-cheng (林明誠) said. The girl arrived in Taiwan on
South Korea is planning to revise its controversial electronic arrival card, a step Taiwanese officials said prompted them to hold off on planned retaliatory measures, a South Korean media report said yesterday. A Yonhap News Agency report said that the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs is planning to remove the “previous departure place” and “next destination” fields from its e-arrival card system. The plan, reached after interagency consultations, is under review and aims to simplify entry procedures and align the electronic form with the paper version, a South Korean ministry official said. The fields — which appeared only on the electronic form
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