An allegedly drunk driver surnamed Lin (林) was recently indicted for forging private identity documents after he signed a traffic ticket — issued for driving his motorcycle under the influence — with President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) name.
According to the indictment issued by the Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office, Lin was pulled over by police at midnight on June 25 when he was riding a motorcycle close to the city’s Beitun District (北屯) without a helmet and while also driving in what was described as a “zigzag” fashion.
A sobriety test showed that Lin’s blood alcohol level was 0.43mg per liter, which exceeded the maximum statutory limit of 0.25mg per liter. He was booked and issued with a ticket for his violation while his vehicle was also detained.
However, when Lin was requested to sign the two documents, he used the name “Ma Ying-jeou” rather than his own because he said he was angry at the penalty. The police said his actions violated the law and have referred him to prosecutors.
During questioning, Lin confessed his wrongdoings, but contended that he had only used the president’s name after being momentarily overwhelmed by anger.
Despite Lin’s explanation, prosecutors upheld the charges which included the forgery of private documents.
“By signing the name Ma Ying-jeou, Lin has not only damaged the reputation anyone with that name, but he has also committed a traffic violation case,” prosecutors said.
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:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
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