The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said yesterday it had handed over to police authorities a postcard threatening that harm would come to former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and his family if he did not retract his accusations against Su An-sheng (蘇安生).
Chen has filed a lawsuit against Su, who is believed to have kicked him in the posterior on June 21 as the former president was entering the Taipei District Court for a court hearing.
DPP Department of Culture and Information Director Cheng Wen-tsang (鄭文燦) told reporters yesterday the author of the postcard said Chen must withdraw his charges against Su and apologize for the move, otherwise he would kill Chen, his daughter Chen Hsing-yu (陳幸妤) and her husband Chao Chien-ming (趙建銘).
The postcard also threatened to hurt DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Cheng said.
“I saw the postcard and I am confident our security apparatus can handle this kind of thing,” Tsai told reporters yesterday, adding she would not change her schedule over the matter.
65 year-old Su is a member of the pro-unification Patriot Association (愛國同心會).
Chen Shui-bian appeared in court on June 21 to defend himself in a defamation suit brought by personnel connected to the purchase of Lafayette frigates in 1990.
After the hearing, he went to the National Taiwan University Hospital, where doctors found that his tailbone had been fractured in the assault.
Approached for comments yesterday, Su said that he had not sent any threatening letter to the DPP.
South Korean K-pop girl group Blackpink are to make Kaohsiung the first stop on their Asia tour when they perform at Kaohsiung National Stadium on Oct. 18 and 19, the event organizer said yesterday. The upcoming performances will also make Blackpink the first girl group ever to perform twice at the stadium. It will be the group’s third visit to Taiwan to stage a concert. The last time Blackpink held a concert in the city was in March 2023. Their first concert in Taiwan was on March 3, 2019, at NTSU Arena (Linkou Arena). The group’s 2022-2023 “Born Pink” tour set a
CPBL players, cheerleaders and officials pose at a news conference in Taipei yesterday announcing the upcoming All-Star Game. This year’s CPBL All-Star Weekend is to be held at the Taipei Dome on July 19 and 20.
The Taiwan High Court yesterday upheld a lower court’s decision that ruled in favor of former president Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) regarding the legitimacy of her doctoral degree. The issue surrounding Tsai’s academic credentials was raised by former political talk show host Dennis Peng (彭文正) in a Facebook post in June 2019, when Tsai was seeking re-election. Peng has repeatedly accused Tsai of never completing her doctoral dissertation to get a doctoral degree in law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1984. He subsequently filed a declaratory action charging that
The Hualien Branch of the High Court today sentenced the main suspect in the 2021 fatal derailment of the Taroko Express to 12 years and six months in jail in the second trial of the suspect for his role in Taiwan’s deadliest train crash. Lee Yi-hsiang (李義祥), the driver of a crane truck that fell onto the tracks and which the the Taiwan Railways Administration's (TRA) train crashed into in an accident that killed 49 people and injured 200, was sentenced to seven years and 10 months in the first trial by the Hualien District Court in 2022. Hoa Van Hao, a
RSS