The Investigation Bureau yesterday rejected a news report that said prosecutors in charge of an embezzlement investigation had asked bureau agents to sign affidavits saying that they would not leak any details of the investigation to outsiders.
The bureau has come in for criticism for leaking confidential information to certain Chinese-language newspapers such as the United Daily News or politicians like Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Chiu Yi (邱毅) while investigating corruption allegations including the president's son-in-law Chao Chien-ming's (趙建銘) insider trading case, the Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corp (KRTC) scandal and the Sogo Department voucher scandal.
While some of the confidential information publicized by the press and Chiu was subsequently found to be true by prosecutors, other revelations were found to be groundless.
The United Daily News yesterday reported that Prosecutor Eric Chen (
"The report was groundless. It was probably an attempt to make mischief between prosecutors and the bureau. The bureau is seriously unhappy with the newspaper and the report," a bureau press statement said yesterday.
Chen, who has been busy interviewing people to determine if reciepts submitted for reimbursement by the Presidential Office were real, yesterday also denied the report.
Last December two agents from the Investigation Bureau's Kaohsiung branch were disciplined for leaking KRTC probe details to Chiu.
When Taipei prosecutors raided Vice Minister of the Interior Yen Wan-chin's (
The prosecutors' action was believed to have been taken in order to avoid potential leaks from bureau agents.
Meanwhile, spokesman for the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office Chang Wen-cheng (
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