The Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office sent two prosecutors to Hualien yesterday to investigate criticism by Hualien Chief Prosecutor Yang Ta-chih (
Yang complained vehemently about the anti-bribery measures taken by the government during the campaign, including the use of police from outside the county and 24-hour random roadside searches of cars on main roads and highways.
In a press conference, he claimed the searches, ordered by Minister of the Interior Yu Cheng-hsien (
The DPP considered Yang's actions during the campaign harmful to its strategy and damaging to the government's image.
Critics have also claimed that KMT-PFP candidate Hsieh Shen-shan's (
Minister of Justice Chen Ding-nan (
The prosecutors will also examine claims that Yang's office leaked confidential documents on anti-bribery actions to the media.
While Yu's anti-vote-buying drive has also been condemned within the DPP, President and party Chairman Chen Shui-bian (
DPP Deputy Secretary-General Lee Chin-yung (
The DPP is holding a meeting today to reflect on its failure in Hualien.
"There are many reasons for our failure, including PR, organization and so on. It is not the result of a single issue or a single person," said Chen Chi-mai (
Tsai Huang-liang (
While the DPP was coming to terms with its defeat, the pan-blue camp was relishing victory and talking of forgiveness.
The KMT and PFP have decided not to discipline their party members who helped the KMT renegade candidate Wu Kuo-tung's (
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching