The Taipei District Court yesterday summoned independent lawmaker Lo Fu-chu (
But both Lo and Kao failed to show, choosing instead to have their lawyers ask for them to be excused from the hearing.
During a legislative committee meeting on March 28 last year, Lo attacked PFP lawmaker Diane Lee (李慶安) and slapped her in the face. The security videotape which recorded the incident appeared to show that Kao stopped Lee's assistant from helping her, so that Lo could keep slapping her. Lee subsequently filed a lawsuit against both Lo and Kao on April 9 of last year.
"Lo is now busy with some private matters," said Tu Ying-ta (杜英達), Lo's lawyer. "As a result, he asked me to request that he be excused from appearing before the judges. He said that he would, however, do whatever it takes to show Lee his sincere regret for the incident and resolve the case. We will decide how to apologize around Chinese New Year."
Lee Fu-tien (
"She told me she might accept Lo's apology," he said. "However, up to now, there has been no communication between Lo and Lee."
Lo was put on the nation's official list of gangsters last October by an eight-member committee which convened at the Taipei City Police Headquarters.
The blacklisting followed the assaults on Lee and DPP lawmaker Yu Jan-daw (余政道). It also followed allegations that he threatened board members of the Jin-wen Institute of Technology (景文技術學院) for the purposes of extortion and amid allegations that he fabricated documents to obtain bank loans and from Tashin Securities and then pocketed the cash.
Lo is the president Tashin Securities.
Lo's term as a lawmaker will end on Jan. 31.
MAKING WAVES: China’s maritime militia could become a nontraditional threat in war, clogging up shipping lanes to prevent US or Japanese intervention, a report said About 1,900 Chinese ships flying flags of convenience and fishing vessels that participated in China’s military exercises around Taiwan last month and in January last year have been listed for monitoring, Coast Guard Administration (CGA) Deputy Director-General Hsieh Ching-chin (謝慶欽) said yesterday. Following amendments to the Commercial Port Act (商港法) and the Law of Ships (船舶法) last month, the CGA can designate possible berthing areas or deny ports of call for vessels suspected of loitering around areas where undersea cables can be accessed, Oceans Affairs Council Minister Kuan Bi-ling (管碧玲) said. The list of suspected ships, originally 300, had risen to about
DAREDEVIL: Honnold said it had always been a dream of his to climb Taipei 101, while a Netflix producer said the skyscraper was ‘a real icon of this country’ US climber Alex Honnold yesterday took on Taiwan’s tallest building, becoming the first person to scale Taipei 101 without a rope, harness or safety net. Hundreds of spectators gathered at the base of the 101-story skyscraper to watch Honnold, 40, embark on his daredevil feat, which was also broadcast live on Netflix. Dressed in a red T-shirt and yellow custom-made climbing shoes, Honnold swiftly moved up the southeast face of the glass and steel building. At one point, he stepped onto a platform midway up to wave down at fans and onlookers who were taking photos. People watching from inside
Japan’s strategic alliance with the US would collapse if Tokyo were to turn away from a conflict in Taiwan, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said yesterday, but distanced herself from previous comments that suggested a possible military response in such an event. Takaichi expressed her latest views on a nationally broadcast TV program late on Monday, where an opposition party leader criticized her for igniting tensions with China with the earlier remarks. Ties between Japan and China have sunk to the worst level in years after Takaichi said in November that a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan could bring about a Japanese
The WHO ignored early COVID-19 warnings from Taiwan, US Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill said on Friday, as part of justification for Washington withdrawing from the global health body. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday said that the US was pulling out of the UN agency, as it failed to fulfill its responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The WHO “ignored early COVID warnings from Taiwan in 2019 by pretending Taiwan did not exist, O’Neill wrote on X on Friday, Taiwan time. “It ignored rigorous science and promoted lockdowns.” The US will “continue international coordination on infectious
RSS