When you walk into the IBU Book Café, in a lane off Nanxing Road in Yilan County’s Dongshan Township, the first sight that greets your eyes is a wall covered with a dazzling array of books, while your nose is met by a light fragrance of coconut and a heavy smell of spices. This is a place where you can borrow books and try out some Southeast-Asian cuisine, and it is also a space where migrant workers and long-term immigrants from Southeast Asia can interact.
The government is revising regulations to remove one of the main thresholds for contractors of public construction projects to hire migrant workers, with the new rules likely to come into effect in early April, according to the Ministry of Labor (MOL).
Several companies in Taiwan's textile sector have been modifying their production lines and ramping up output to help meet the soaring demand for surgical masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Among the companies that have stepped up to the challenge is a "national team" of six manufacturers, which are producing protective hospital gowns that have P3 particulate filters.
