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TAIPEI - "Locals over foreigners" is written into the law when it comes to working in Taiwan.

Brussels, March 19 (CNA) The government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) on Tuesday donated US$100,000 in humanitarian aid to Western Saharan refugees in North Africa.

“Long-term care workers are severely exploited due to government inaction. Migrants’ rights are human rights,” members of the Migrants’ Empowerment Network in Taiwan (MENT) shouted outside the Executive Yuan in Taipei yesterday.

Discrimination and domestic violence are still threats for immigrant spouses, rights advocates said yesterday as they called for more support services for immigrant spouses, better education for the general public on respecting cultural diversity and an end to commercial marriage brokeraging.

A group of international human rights experts yesterday urged Taiwan to scrap the death penalty and protect the rights of Aboriginal people, migrant workers, prisoners, gay people and other minority groups, as well as former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁).

Taipei, March 1 (CNA) International experts on Friday urged Taiwan to scrap the death penalty and protect the rights of indigenous people, migrant workers, prisoners, gay people and other minority groups as well as the rights of former president Chen Shui-bian.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Four Vietnamese migrant workers have escaped from a Nantou detention centre while awaiting repatriation, immigration officials said yesterday.

The number of foreign spouses of Taiwanese nationals has decreased annually over the past five years, with the decrease especially obvious for Vietnamese spouses, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior (MOI).