The Cabinet yesterday approved a draft statute on streamlining the Cabinet, cutting the number of agencies under it from 36 to 26.
Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (
Although a number of Cabinet members had questioned the need for instituting a ministry to deal with veterans' affairs, Cabinet spokesman Shieh Jhy-wey (謝志偉) told a news conference after the meeting that Taiwan's move toward a volunteer military service would still necessitate the creation of a ministry to care for veterans.
Chang said that the draft bill, along with amendments to the Organic Standard Law of Central Government Agencies (
With the new legislative session scheduled to start on Friday, the Cabinet will seek to actively cooperate with the legislature to speed up the restructuring of the executive branch of the government, the premier said.
Under the draft bill, six new ministries would be established under the Executive Yuan to add to the eight ministries mandated by the Organic Law of the Executive Yuan.
The 14 ministries would cover interior and homeland security, foreign and overseas affairs, defense, finance, education and sports, justice, economic affairs, transportation and construction, labor and human resources, agriculture, public health and social welfare, environmental resources, tourism and culture, and veterans' affairs.
The seven commissions would cover a new technology commission, a new maritime council, a new commission on gender equality, a new national development commission, the Hakka Council, the Council of Indigenous Peoples and the Mainland Affairs Council.
The five independent institutions are the Central Bank of China, the Central Election Commission, the Fair Trade Commission, the Financial Supervisory Commission and the National Communication Commission.
The restructured Executive Yuan will also add two deputy secretary generals, one of which will help the secretary general with administrative affairs and the other to act as the body's spokesman.
Taiwanese were praised for their composure after a video filmed by Taiwanese tourists capturing the moment a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Japan’s Aomori Prefecture went viral on social media. The video shows a hotel room shaking violently amid Monday’s quake, with objects falling to the ground. Two Taiwanese began filming with their mobile phones, while two others held the sides of a TV to prevent it from falling. When the shaking stopped, the pair calmly took down the TV and laid it flat on a tatami mat, the video shows. The video also captured the group talking about the safety of their companions bathing
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