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■ Crime
Pair sentenced for torture
A Taichung court yesterday sentenced Liu Cheng-chi (劉正祺) to four-and-a-half years in prison for enslaving and torturing his Vietnamese ex-wife for nearly seven months. Liu's first wife, Lin Li-ju (林麗如) was also sen-tenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for her part in the affair. "I am grateful that the judges have returned justice to me," said Liu's ex, Doan Nhut Linh. The then 20-year-old Doan was found battered and scarred near a Taichung power plant in February last year. She weighed just 29kg. Doan told police and social workers that she had suffered con-stant abuse and starvation before Liu and his former wife pushed her out of a vehicle near the plant.

■ Politics
Yu to cooperate with probe
Premier Yu Shyi-kun is happy to cooperate with the Control Yuan in its investigation into the March 19 assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and the launching of a "national security" mech-anism afterwards, the Cabi-net announced yesterday. "Our stance on the matter is clear and that is that the premier is more than willing to talk with Control Yuan members in their investi-gation," Cabinet Spokesman Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) told a press conference. "As soon as the time and place are settled, the premier will be happy to pay them a visit." He made the remark in response to a media report which claimed Yu had rejected the watch-dog agency's request to interview him because Yu believed he played no part in the case.

■ Politics
NSB briefs committee
Members of the March 19 Shooting Truth Investigation Special Committee visited the National Security Bureau (NSB) for two hours yesterday to examine details of President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) campaign tour on March 19 just before he was shot. The members were received by bureau Director-General Hsueh Shih-min (薜石民) and his deputy, Wang Chin-wang (王進旺). Hsueh said he welcomed the chance to meet with the commission members, but stressed that no written material will be provided to them until a constitutional dispute surrounding the body's formation is settled. A briefing on Chen's itiner-ary was given by Hsu Li-meng, head of the bureau's special services center. Commission spokeswoman Wang Ching-feng said the meeting was intended to give committee members a rough idea of what hap-pened on March 19 and that the commission will con-tinue to examine other details.

■ Health
Taiwan lagging in sex
The latest annual survey on sex by condom-maker Durex found that Taiwanese had sex only 80 times per year, ranking them fourth from the bottom of a list of 41 coun-tries. According to the 2004 Durex Global Sex Survey released yesterday, Taiwan beat out only Hong Kong (79), Singapore (79) and Japan (46). According to the survey of 350,000 people, the French top the global list with an average 137 times per year. The Taiwanese also cut to the chase faster than many other nationalities, spending an average of 16.3 minutes on foreplay, 3.4 minutes less than the global average. The survey found that 35 percent of respondents said that they always achieve orgasm; however, only 17 percent of women said this compared to the 45 percent of men who did. And 11 percent of Chinese respon-dents said they had never had an orgasm.

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