CRIME
Shooting suspect arrested
The main suspect in the killing of a policemen earlier this week was arrested yesterday evening, police said, adding that the suspect, Chen Chun-ta (陳俊達), had taken police to retrieve the gun he allegedly used in the shooting. An off-duty policeman surnamed Wang (王) was shot dead at a piano bar in Taipei early on Monday morning after he and two friends clashed with Chen and some acquaintances. Earlier yesterday, police officers told a press conference that three Vietnamese nationals who were with Chen when the crime occurred had turned themselves over to officials. As of press time, Chen was still being questioned by police.
CRIME
Man gets 4,613 years in jail
The owner of a private school in Greater Taichung surnamed Wang (王) was sentenced to 4,613 years and 10 months in prison by the Taiwan High Court’s Taichung branch for sexually assaulting female students. The court said Wang, 46, would serve a 30-year term in accordance with the law. Wang can appeal to the Supreme Court. The ruling said Wang sexually assaulted 12 girls a total of 1,103 times. Several girls were assaulted almost every day, and one girl was sexually assaulted 536 times in three years. The girls were aged between first grade and sixth grade. Between September 2006 and June 2010, Wang sexually assaulted the girls during class or in a school van when taking them home, the ruling said. Wang inappropriately touched the victims and sometimes raped them, it said. The ruling said victims told the court that Wang said he would be sentenced to death if they told their parents and the girls would go to jail, too. Some girls were given NT$50 after being assaulted, the ruling said.
DEFENSE: The National Security Bureau promised to expand communication and intelligence cooperation with global partners and enhance its strategic analytical skills China has not only increased military exercises and “gray zone” tactics against Taiwan this year, but also continues to recruit military personnel for espionage, the National Security Bureau (NSB) said yesterday in a report to the Legislative Yuan. The bureau submitted the report ahead of NSB Director-General Tsai Ming-yen’s (蔡明彥) appearance before the Foreign and National Defense Committee today. Last year, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted “Joint Sword-2024A and B” military exercises targeting Taiwan and carried out 40 combat readiness patrols, the bureau said. In addition, Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan’s airspace 3,070 times last year, up about
The Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC) yesterday announced a fundraising campaign to support survivors of the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar on March 28, with two prayer events scheduled in Taipei and Taichung later this week. “While initial rescue operations have concluded [in Myanmar], many survivors are now facing increasingly difficult living conditions,” OCAC Minister Hsu Chia-ching (徐佳青) told a news conference in Taipei. The fundraising campaign, which runs through May 31, is focused on supporting the reconstruction of damaged overseas compatriot schools, assisting students from Myanmar in Taiwan, and providing essential items, such as drinking water, food and medical supplies,
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck eastern Taiwan's Hualien County at 8:31am today, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA). The epicenter of the temblor was located in Hualien County, about 70.3 kilometers south southwest of Hualien County Hall, at a depth of 23.2km, according to the administration. There were no immediate reports of damage resulting from the quake. The earthquake's intensity, which gauges the actual effect of a temblor, was highest in Taitung County, where it measured 3 on Taiwan's 7-tier intensity scale. The quake also measured an intensity of 2 in Hualien and Nantou counties, the CWA said.
New Party Deputy Secretary-General You Chih-pin (游智彬) this morning went to the National Immigration Agency (NIA) to “turn himself in” after being notified that he had failed to provide proof of having renounced his Chinese household registration. He was one of more than 10,000 naturalized Taiwanese citizens from China who were informed by the NIA that their Taiwanese citizenship might be revoked if they fail to provide the proof in three months, people familiar with the matter said. You said he has proof that he had renounced his Chinese household registration and demanded the NIA provide proof that he still had Chinese
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