The principal of Taipei County’s Yonghe Junior High School alleged yesterday that one of his teachers had embezzled scholarship money that was earmarked for 1,200 students.
Ho Chuan-li (侯全利), the principal, told reporters that teacher Wang Hsiang-feng (王祥鳳) had admitted that during her 18 months as the school’s registrar section chief, she had embezzled about NT$600,000 (US$18,500) that was supposed to be given to students with good academic performance.
“She admitted that she forged [students’ signatures] and embezzled [the money],” Ho said.
“The next day, a teachers’ association representative and I accompanied her to the Banciao Prosecutors’ Office, where she turned herself in,” the principal said.
The school, which has 132 classes, usually awards students who rank first, second and third place in their class with NT$500 each. However, no students had received any scholarship money for three semesters.
It was discovered that Wang, 30, was embezzling the money when she handed over registry books to another teacher, the school said.
Before that, she had allegedly forged 1,200 students’ signatures and pocketed the money for three consecutive semesters, the school found.
The principal told reporters that Wang said she embezzled the funds because her family needed money. She has since been dismissed for violating the Teacher’s Act (教師法).
Ho said he had apologized to the director-general of the county’s Education Bureau and offered to resign over his failure to supervise a subordinate.
Yangmingshan National Park authorities yesterday urged visitors to respect public spaces and obey the law after a couple was caught on a camera livestream having sex at the park’s Qingtiangang (擎天崗) earlier in the day. The Shilin Police Precinct in Taipei said it has identified a suspect and his vehicle registration number, and would summon him for questioning. The case would be handled in accordance with public indecency charges, it added. The couple entered the park at about 11pm on Thursday and began fooling around by 1am yesterday, the police said, adding that the two were unaware of the park’s all-day live
Fast food chain McDonald's is to raise prices by up to NT$5 on some products at its restaurants across Taiwan, starting on Wednesday next week, the company announced today. The prices of all extra value meals and sharing boxes are to increase by NT$5, while breakfast combos and creamy corn soup would go up by NT$3, the company said in a statement. The price of the main items of those meals, if ordered individually, would remain the same. Meanwhile, the price of a medium-sized lemon iced tea and hot cappuccino would rise by NT$3, extra dipping sauces for chicken nuggets would go up
Yangmingshan National Park’s Qingtiangang (擎天崗) nature area has gone viral after a park livestream camera observed a couple in the throes of intimate congress, which was broadcast live on YouTube, drawing large late-night crowds and sparking a backlash over noise, bright lights and disruption to wildlife habitat. The area’s livestream footage appeared to show a couple engaging in sexual activity on a picnic table in the park on Friday last week, with the uncensored footage streamed publicly online. The footage quickly spread across social media, prompting a tide of visitors to travel to the site to “check in” and recreate the
Minister of Digital Affairs Lin Yi-ching (林宜敬) yesterday cited regulatory issues and national security concerns as an expert said that Taiwan is among the few Asian regions without Starlink. Lin made the remarks on Facebook after funP Innovation Group chief executive officer Nathan Chiu (邱繼弘) on Friday said Taiwan and four other countries in Asia — China, North Korea, Afghanistan and Syria — have no access to Starlink. Starlink has become available in 166 countries worldwide, including Ukraine, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, in the six years since it became commercial, he said. While China and North Korea block Starlink, Syria is not
RSS