Taiwan Solidarity Union caucus whip Huang Wen-ling said at a press conference that Zain Dean, who was sentenced to four years in prison on drunk-driving charges, was able to leave Taiwan because the immigration agency botched the screening process.
A total of 1.58 million people had applied for access to the free Wi-Fi service, called Taipei Free, as of the end of November 2012, up from about 900,000 subscribers at the beginning of the year.
Read more: TW: Demand for Wi-Fi, online services in Taipei picking up
Members of a legislative standing committee reached an agreement to cut the application fee for machine-readable regular passports from NT$1,600 ($55 USD) to NT$1,300 ($43 USD), starting next year. Additionally, the price of electronic passports valid only between three and five years, will be lowered from NT$1,200 ($41 USD) to NT$900 ($30 USD).
Read more: Taiwanese electronic passport application fees set to drop in 2013
Coordinated by the RDEC Minister Sung Yu-hsieh, the national conference of IT chiefs from all levels of government organizations across Taiwan provides the key platform for nationwide e-government services.
Read more: TW: RDEC pushing nationwide e-gov't services with integration, innovation
The lab is part of the government’s plans to enhance the use of cloud computing in Taiwan. Earlier this month, the government announced a NT$7 billion (US$237.3 million) cloud-building programme to encourage growth in Taiwan’s information and communication technology sector and improve government services and functions.
Read more: Taiwan Starts Testing for US$237 million Cloud Project