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Taiwan's three-shift nurse-patient ratio policy will be phased in starting May 20, 2027. The Minister of Health and Welfare suggested that medical centers might implement it first, addressing the challenge of nursing staff shortages.
Amsterdam has become the world's first capital city to ban public advertisements for meat and fossil fuel products, effective May 1st. This initiative aims to align the city's streetscape with its environmental goals of achieving carbon neutrality and halving meat consumption by 2050, despite some criticism of overreach.
The Japanese government has relaxed its long-standing restrictions on defense equipment and technology transfers, aiming to secure a place in the global defense industry. However, analysts believe it will still take several years for Japan to achieve this goal.
Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has simplified the deposit and withdrawal procedures for foreign investors participating in futures trading. The changes, effective immediately, aim to reduce time and cost, shortening the transaction time from 2-4 days to 1-2 days, in hopes of increasing foreign investor participation in Taiwan's futures market.
Taiwan's Ministry of Labor will launch a new childcare subsidy system on May 1st to encourage companies to become "super teammates" in workers' parenting. Considering the difficulties small businesses face in establishing facilities independently, the Ministry announced today that it is developing plans to provide specialized guidance in various industrial parks, encouraging companies to jointly establish childcare centers.
Following the controversy surrounding former TPP legislator Li Chen-hsiu, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has clarified Article 21 of the "Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area." The new interpretation stipulates that individuals cannot register as public office candidates until 10 years have passed since they completed submitting proof of mainland Chinese household deregistration to the competent authority.