From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2010:
TAIPEI–Horror stories about Taiwan animal shelters still
surface, despite the progress of recent years, long after an
international hue-and-cry brought the 1998 passage of the first
Taiwanese humane law.
The law forbade dog-eating, rare in Taiwan even then, and
addressed individual acts of abuse and neglect, but focused on
animal control practices.
Taiwan animal advocates are still struggling to ensure that
the law is observed, and to win improvements.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2010:

TAIPEI, TAIWAN–Taipei is not a city that likes to be seen
as trailing economic rival Hong Kong in anything–and that tends to
help animals.
The almost equal heights of the tallest building in Taipei
and the three tallest in Hong Kong attest to the intensity of the
civic sibling rivalry. The three tallest Hong Kong office towers are
actually slightly higher, but the Taiwan tower has six more stories.
Now fundraising to build a state-of-the-art Taipei animal
adoption center is gettiing underway with quiet descriptions to
affluent and influential people of what Hong Kong did ten years ago.
The adoption center may be built by Animals Taiwan, or by a
coalition of organizations, perhaps with government help. The
details have yet to be negotiated. But there is agreement among the
Taiwan animal care and advocacy community that the time to do it is
now.

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