TaiwanPlus News – 18:30, December 15, 2022

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Taiwan was struck by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake on Thursday, the latest tremor in what the country's seismological center says has been a record year for seismic activity. In Taiwan's ongoing battle against human trafficking gangs, footage has emerged of armed officers busting a scam ring. The arrests were made while the scammers were on the way to sell their victims. And with the public increasingly worried by rising inflation, lawmakers have devised a bill to help more people struggling with finances by redefining the country's poverty line. Also: - Taiwan has released its first ever report on how it is implementing a U.N. charter aimed at eliminating racial discrimination. - Police are following up on the case of the killing of an endangered Formosan black bear, a crime that has divided local opinion. - A research team has attempted to recreate what people in Taiwan might have been eating 3,000 years ago.