Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/12/31
By: Tang Pei-chun and Elaine Hou
Taipei, Dec. 31 (CNA) Protesters disrupted the first regional seminar to discuss reforming Taiwan’s
Protesters clash with the police as they try to enter the room of a seminar on pension reform.
deficit-ridden pension programs on Saturday, forcing the meeting to end earlier than scheduled, an outcome described as regretful by Vice President Chen Chien-jen (陳建仁).
Chen is the head of the national pension reform committee under the Presidential Office, which organized the seminar in Taipei, the first of a series of regional meetings planned around Taiwan to solicit opinions on reforms of the pension system.
Saturday’s meeting was hosted by Minister of Labor Kuo Fong-yu (郭芳煜) and Minister of Civil Service Chou Hung-hsien (周弘憲), and was attended by more than 150 representatives of current and retired civil servants, teachers, laborers, farmers, related government agencies and political parties, according to a statement issued by the committee.
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the building where the meeting was taking place, it said. [FULL STORY]
