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Porn star aims to placate councilor

A Chinese-American porn star recently caught on camera parading nude in the streets of Taipei yesterday tried to seek reconciliation with a Taipei City Councilor who was upset by her controversial stunt.

The starlet, known as Kiko Wu, e-mailed the Taipei Times on Wednesday offering to make amends with KMT City Councilor Chen Li-hui (陳孋輝).

Chen, at a press conference on June 6, criticized Wu's stunt as an effort "to boost sales at her pornographic Internet site."

Police then launched a manhunt in a bid to locate Wu's whereabouts and reveal her true identity. They also threatened to expel Wu from the country the next time she attempted such "obscene and offensive" behavior during a visit to Taiwan.

Wu said that she had no choice but to offer reconciliation "since it seems that Councilwoman Chen will be permitted to use local law enforcement to enforce her petty whims with no regard for Taiwanese law."

"I will promise not only to never engage in public nudity again in Taiwan, but to never even return to the country, if Ms Chen will put a stop [to] the threats and harassment of which my Taiwanese friends have been the victims of in the past week," Wu said.

Wu said in a separate letter that she had a "very, very hard time getting out of the country."

"The whole thing was a total nightmare," the letter said. "The last few days the police were searching the airport and hotels with my picture ... The police kept making threatening calls to my assistant and friends in Taipei," the letter said. "I could not believe that this was happening in a place that fancies itself a democracy. This is an offense that carries less of a legal penalty than littering!"

Wu also accused Chen of directing the police to engage in an ongoing campaign of "threats, harassment and intimidation" -- including threats of violence -- against her and her friends in a bid to sooth Chen's "injured pride."

"It would never have happened had she been doing her job and helping the people of Taipei rather than seeking pre-election publicity," Wu said.

In response, Chen, who is on an overseas trip, said that she refused to make any comment on the case because it had become a legal issue.

"What [Wu] tried to do here is to draw the attention of the media and manipulate the coverage," she said. "There's no room for reconciliation because you simply cannot reconcile with the law."

If the police had harassed her friends in Taiwan, Chen said, Wu should have turned to the police instead of her.

"I've never directed the police to intimidate anyone. My job is to make the incident public, and the rest is up to the police," she said.

Tony Tsao (曹晴輝), director of Taipei's foreign affairs police division, said that Wu's controversial stunt violated various laws including the Immigration Law (入出國及移民法).

"We may have to ask her to leave the country immediately if we find out she has shown up here again," Tsao said.

The Immigration Law stipulates that a foreign national is banned from engaging in any form of activity that contradicts the purpose of the visit specified in the person's visa.

It also specifies that a foreign national is only allowed to enter the country for the purposes of tourism, visiting relatives or attending schools unless the foreign national has a work permit or is invited by a sponsor or organization to engage in performances.
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