National Chengchi University authorities were in shock yesterday after learning that a Taiwanese-Japanese student at the school was arrested for allegedly raping a Japanese student from National Taiwan Normal University (Shida).
“The faculty and students at the school are saddened and regret the alleged sexual assault involving a Taiwanese with Japanese nationality,” the school said in a press release.
“Nothing like this has happened in our school for decades,” the school said.
Police announced on Thursday they had cracked the case involving a female Shida student at who was raped in the early hours of March 5. They identified the suspect as a 24-year-old college student with Japanese citizenship.
Police said the suspect had once studied in the same Chinese class as the victim and had developed a crush on the girl.
The suspect allegedly broke into the victim’s apartment on Shida Road, covered her head with a quilt, covered her eyes and mouth with tape and tied her up with tape before raping her, police said.
The victim told police the rapist spoke Mandarin with a Japanese accent and left a note telling her not to call police. The Chinese characters on the note were incorrectly written.
Chengchi gender equality board deputy-director Hsiu Hui-lan (修慧蘭) said the board would investigate the allegations and complete its probe within two to four months. If the allegations are proven true, the student could be expelled, Hsiu said.
She called on faculty and students to create a friendly environment for both sexes and to alert them of any lapses in security.
Ministry of the Interior statistics show that last year, the majority of the 9,543 reported sexual assault cases involved people who had been dating or friends, she said.
Former president Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) mention of Taiwan’s official name during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) on Wednesday was likely a deliberate political play, academics said. “As I see it, it was intentional,” National Chengchi University Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies professor Wang Hsin-hsien (王信賢) said of Ma’s initial use of the “Republic of China” (ROC) to refer to the wider concept of “the Chinese nation.” Ma quickly corrected himself, and his office later described his use of the two similar-sounding yet politically distinct terms as “purely a gaffe.” Given Ma was reading from a script, the supposed slipup
Former Czech Republic-based Taiwanese researcher Cheng Yu-chin (鄭宇欽) has been sentenced to seven years in prison on espionage-related charges, China’s Ministry of State Security announced yesterday. China said Cheng was a spy for Taiwan who “masqueraded as a professor” and that he was previously an assistant to former Cabinet secretary-general Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰). President-elect William Lai (賴清德) on Wednesday last week announced Cho would be his premier when Lai is inaugurated next month. Today is China’s “National Security Education Day.” The Chinese ministry yesterday released a video online showing arrests over the past 10 years of people alleged to be
THE HAWAII FACTOR: While a 1965 opinion said an attack on Hawaii would not trigger Article 5, the text of the treaty suggests the state is covered, the report says NATO could be drawn into a conflict in the Taiwan Strait if Chinese forces attacked the US mainland or Hawaii, a NATO Defense College report published on Monday says. The report, written by James Lee, an assistant research fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of European and American Studies, states that under certain conditions a Taiwan contingency could trigger Article 5 of NATO, under which an attack against any member of the alliance is considered an attack against all members, necessitating a response. Article 6 of the North Atlantic Treaty specifies that an armed attack in the territory of any member in Europe,
The bodies of two individuals were recovered and three additional bodies were discovered on the Shakadang Trail (砂卡礑) in Taroko National Park, eight days after the devastating earthquake in Hualien County, search-and-rescue personnel said. The rescuers reported that they retrieved the bodies of a man and a girl, suspected to be the father and daughter from the Yu (游) family, 500m from the entrance of the trail on Wednesday. The rescue team added that despite the discovery of the two bodies on Friday last week, they had been unable to retrieve them until Wednesday due to the heavy equipment needed to lift