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More than 1,000 representatives from more than 100 workers’ unions in Taiwan took to the streets in downtown Taipei on International Workers’ Day, demanding that a workers’ rights law be amended. Waving banners and shouting slogans, demonstrators marched for hours in the capital on Wednesday, calling for the law to be revised to include higher wages, better work conditions and pension packages. “Prices have been soaring, but wages have not,” said Chiang Chien-hsing, head of the Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions. “We don’t want to see Taiwan remaining a country with low wages. This is an isl…