Bill passed to increase fine after reporter’s US incidentBy Peng Wan-hsin, Chen yun and Dennis Xie / Staff reporters, with staff writerA plan to increase fines for Taiwanese who work for political organizations in China advanced at the legislature in Taipei yesterday, when a draft amendment to the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (台灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例) passed its first reading. Chang is a Taiwanese-born employee at Shanghai Media Group (上海文化廣播影視集團), a state-owned mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The title and logo of the Mainland Affairs Council are seen on a podium at the council’s Taipei offices in an undated photograph. It is a restriction of people’s right to work, an extremely unwise move in Taiwan, which advocates freedom of speech, Yeh said. Chang, who grew up in Yunlin County and has the chance to ask the US president questions, should be applauded, Hung said.

Source: Taipei Times April 17, 2020 15:56 UTC