Pan-blue legislators criticized the government yesterday for their failure to maintain public security in the wake of a recent spate of crimes.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers asked National Police Agency Director-General Hou You-yi (
"The case showed how terrible Taiwan's public security is. Even the gangsters dare to brazenly make such provocative moves," KMT legislative caucus whip Hsu Shao-ping (
BROKEN PROMISE
KMT Legislator Lee Ching-hua (
Last March, two months after Su assumed the premiership, he said he would withdraw from political life if he failed to improve public security and reduce crime rates within six months.
People First Party (PFP) lawmakers attempted to make Su live up to his vow by holding a press conference yesterday to urge him to step down over what they perceived as a deterioration in public security.
"Su said last year that he would quit his job if the public did not feel that the crime situation had improved. Now it's time for him to deliver on his promise," PFP Legislator Feng Ting-kuo (
Meanwhile, Minister of the Interior Lee Yi-yang (
TREES, NOT FOREST
However, Lee said that despite a wave of high-profile crimes, public security is not getting worse.
"We can't just see the single cases. We have to gauge whether public security is getting better by the overall situation," the minister said in response to a question from KMT Legislator Huang Chih-hsiung (
Lee said that the accusation that the public security had not improved was not true.
"For example, even Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (
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:
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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