The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) on Saturday pledged to investigate an accusation that former Hualien County commissioner and KMT Legislator Fu Kun-chi sexually harassed a reporter in 2014.
The KMT in a statement said that “there is no room for ambiguity” and that it would immediately launch an internal investigation into the accusation.
The party would defend gender equality and women’s rights, it said.
Photo: Wang Chien-hao, Taipei Times
Mirror Fiction general manager Tung Cheng-yu (董成瑜), a former reporter and screenwriter who worked at Next Magazine, earlier in the day wrote on Facebook that a KMT county commissioner who now serves as a legislator “grabbed her head and kissed her” during a banquet attended by Next Magazine senior managers in 2014.
Tung said she immediately stood up and protested before leaving the scene.
In a follow-up post, she named the person as Fu.
Fu has denied the accusation.
The 61-year-old said he “has never sexually harassed any female or subordinate.”
“I am a family man and have never been involved in a love scandal, nor did I meet privately with women during my 20-year political career,” Fu said.
He said that he fully respects gender equality, and urged Tung to file a lawsuit if she believes she was sexually harassed by him.
Fu served as commissioner from 2009 to 2018 before being removed from his post to serve two years and 10 months in prison for stock manipulation.
The latest case surfaced following a series of sexual harassment or assault allegations involving current and former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) members.
DPP Legislator Fan Yun (范雲), former DPP legislator Yu Mei-nu (尤美女) and members of gender equity groups in a joint statement expressed support for victims of sexual harassment.
“The ongoing reports of sexual harassment, along with the responses from perpetrators of the crime, could trigger traumatic experiences for some victims... We want to offer counseling and legal aid to victims,” the statement said.
Taipei and New Taipei City government officials are aiming to have the first phase of the Wanhua-Jungho-Shulin Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line completed and opened by 2027, following the arrival of the first train set yesterday. The 22km-long Light Green Line would connect four densely populated districts in Taipei and New Taipei City: Wanhua (萬華), Jhonghe (中和), Tucheng (土城) and Shulin (樹林). The first phase of the project would connect Wanhua and Jhonghe districts, with Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and Chukuang (莒光) being the terminal stations. The two municipalities jointly hosted a ceremony for the first train to be used
MILITARY AID: Taiwan has received a first batch of US long-range tactical missiles ahead of schedule, with a second shipment expected to be delivered by 2026 The US’ early delivery of long-range tactical ballistic missiles to Taiwan last month carries political and strategic significance, a military source said yesterday. According to the Ministry of National Defense’s budget report, the batch of military hardware from the US, including 11 sets of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and 64 MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems, had been scheduled to be delivered to Taiwan between the end of this year and the beginning of next year. However, the first batch arrived last month, earlier than scheduled, with the second batch —18 sets of HIMARS, 20 MGM-140 missiles and 864 M30
Representative to the US Alexander Yui delivered a letter from the government to US president-elect Donald Trump during a meeting with a former Trump administration official, CNN reported yesterday. Yui on Thursday met with former US national security adviser Robert O’Brien over a private lunch in Salt Lake City, Utah, with US Representative Chris Stewart, the Web site of the US cable news channel reported, citing three sources familiar with the matter. “During that lunch the letter was passed along, and then shared with Trump, two of the sources said,” CNN said. O’Brien declined to comment on the lunch, as did the Taipei
A woman who allegedly attacked a high-school student with a utility knife, injuring his face, on a Taipei metro train late on Friday has been transferred to prosecutors, police said yesterday. The incident occurred near MRT Xinpu Station at about 10:17pm on a Bannan Line train headed toward Dingpu, New Taipei City police said. Before police arrived at the station to arrest the suspect, a woman surnamed Wang (王) who is in her early 40s, she had already been subdued by four male passengers, one of whom was an off-duty Taipei police officer, police said. The student, 17, who sustained a cut about
RSS