Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-27
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Legislative Yuan announced a break until Thursday morning after a member of staff was taken to hospital Wednesday evening as a voting session about budgets for state corporations entered its 27th hour.

After a marathon session Monday which culminated in the approval of guidelines on ill-gotten party assets, the opposition Kuomintang was seen as striking back by filing more than 1,600 items and amendments to the 2016 budgets for the state-run enterprises.

As a result, the Legislative Yuan decided to hold a non-stop day-and-night voting session from Tuesday evening until the end of Friday.     [FULL  STORY]