Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Hsieh Kuo-liang (謝國樑) was at the center of a controversy yesterday after a report placed him outside a nightclub with eight women.
When approached for comment, Hsieh denied that he partied with the eight women, saying only two were his friends, while the rest were simply passersby.
“We only happened to leave [the club] at the same time,” he said.
PHOTO: LIN CHENG-KUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
Hsieh, 35 and single, vowed to review his conduct and to act more cautiously in the future.
The Chinese-language Apple Daily reported yesterday that Hsieh showed up at a nightclub called Spark in Taipei at about 1am and quoted Hsieh as saying that he was there for a friend’s birthday party.
The report showed two pictures of Hsieh speaking on his mobile phone surrounded by eight women, some of them wearing miniskirts, while others were in low-cut dresses.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Yu Tian (余天) told reporters that his son Yu Hsiang-chuan (余祥銓) had seen Hsieh at other nightclubs on numerous occasions.
“I am not surprised that he partied at a nightclub. He usually goes to them whenever he is free,” Yu Tian said.
Hsieh dismissed Yu’s allegation that he was a partygoer, saying he had only been to a nightclub twice in the past two years, while KMT Legislator Lee Ching-hua (李慶華) described the scene in the pictures as a “spectacle.”
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