Prosecutor Hou Kuan-jen (
This was not a problem that Prosecutor Eric Chen (陳瑞仁) was troubled by during his investigation into the allegations against President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and first lady Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍), not even after he indicted Wu on corruption and forgery charges in connection with the handling of the Presidential Office's "state affairs fund" late last month.
Although both are senior prosecutors with the Black Gold Investigation Center of the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office, they faced wildly different situations.
"Prosecutor Chen's only consideration is the evidence, not political color. He is a model for other prosecutors," Lin Ching-tsung (林慶宗), a prosecutor with the Kaohsiung branch of the Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office, told the Taipei Times.
Minister of Justice Morley Shih (施茂林) has described Eric Chen as "a man that nobody can control" or influence.
Former senior adviser to the president Peng Ming-min (
But KMT legislators yesterday accused the government of interfering with the Black Gold Investigation Center investigation into Ma's handling of his mayoral special allowance.
They said that Hou had already decided to indict Ma before the Dec. 9 mayoral elections in Taipei and Kaohsiung.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) is to launch a new program to encourage international students to stay in Taiwan and explore job opportunities here after graduation, Deputy Minister of Education Yeh Ping-cheng (葉丙成) said on Friday. The government would provide full scholarships for international students to further their studies for two years in Taiwan, so those who want to pursue a master’s degree can consider applying for the program, he said. The fields included are science, technology, engineering, mathematics, semiconductors and finance, Yeh added. The program, called “Intense 2+2,” would also assist international students who completed the two years of further studies in
The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic archipelago deep in the Pacific Ocean belie the key role it now plays in a titanic geopolitical struggle. Palau is again on the front line as China, and the US and its allies prepare their forces in an intensifying contest for control over the Asia-Pacific region. The democratic nation of just 17,000 people hosts US-controlled airstrips and soon-to-be-completed radar installations that the US military describes as “critical” to monitoring vast swathes of water and airspace. It is also a key piece of the second island chain, a string of
Taiwan will now have four additional national holidays after the Legislative Yuan passed an amendment today, which also made Labor Day a national holiday for all sectors. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) used their majority in the Legislative Yuan to pass the amendment to the Act on Implementing Memorial Days and State Holidays (紀念日及節日實施辦法), which the parties jointly proposed, in its third and final reading today. The legislature passed the bill to amend the act, which is currently enforced administratively, raising it to the legal level. The new legislation recognizes Confucius’ birthday on Sept. 28, the
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck about 33km off the coast of Hualien City was the "main shock" in a series of quakes in the area, with aftershocks expected over the next three days, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. Prior to the magnitude 5.9 quake shaking most of Taiwan at 6:53pm yesterday, six other earthquakes stronger than a magnitude of 4, starting with a magnitude 5.5 quake at 6:09pm, occurred in the area. CWA Seismological Center Director Wu Chien-fu (吳健富) confirmed that the quakes were all part of the same series and that the magnitude 5.5 temblor was
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