Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng’s (王金平) attorney yesterday provided a legal statement to the Taiwan High Court against the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) legal position in an appeal it filed against the decision of a lower court over Wang’s party membership and speaker status.
The High Court said three judges of a civil court were evaluating statements from attorneys of both sides, and it would soon decide whether to have attorneys of both sides argue at a hearing or to make a ruling without a hearing.
The KMT’s attorneys on Wednesday provided a legal statement to the High Court, citing the rejection of an injunction filed by former premier Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村) in 1996, when the KMT revoked his party membership, saying that the court “has no jurisdiction” over the case because disciplinary procedures against party members are a party matter.
Wang’s attorney, Hsu Ying-chieh (許英傑), yesterday delivered a statement to the High Court, but refused to reveal the contents.
Wang on Sept. 13 requested an injunction from the Taipei District Court against the KMT’s decision to revoke his party membership over his alleged attempt to improperly influence a prosecutor in a legal case involving Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus whip Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘).
The district court ruled that Wang may keep his rights as a KMT member until a final ruling, on the condition that he pay a guarantee of NT$9.38 million (US$315,000).
Meanwhile, the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday said it had received nearly 20 complaints against Prosecutor-General Huang Shih-ming (黃世銘) and the Special Investigation Division accusing them of illegally monitoring Ker’s telephone communications and leaking the contents of its investigation to President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), and that the District Prosecutors’ Office has started to collect evidence.
FLU SEASON: Twenty-six severe cases were reported from Tuesday last week to Monday, including a seven-year-old girl diagnosed with influenza-associated encephalopathy Nearly 140,000 people sought medical assistance for diarrhea last week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said on Tuesday. From April 7 to Saturday last week, 139,848 people sought medical help for diarrhea-related illness, a 15.7 percent increase from last week’s 120,868 reports, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Center Deputy Director Lee Chia-lin (李佳琳) said. The number of people who reported diarrhea-related illness last week was the fourth highest in the same time period over the past decade, Lee said. Over the past four weeks, 203 mass illness cases had been reported, nearly four times higher than the 54 cases documented in the same period
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:
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
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