Two incidents yesterday of scooters allegedly being set alight close to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have drawn attention to a lack of police security measures, on the eve of the presidential inauguration on May 20, in Taipei's Po-ai district.
No suspects have been identified and the police investigations continue.
According to a report by the Taipei City Police Department's Chungcheng First Precinct, a scooter which was parked on the sidewalk at the back of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building burst into flames at about 5am yesterday.
Approximately ten minutes later, the same thing happened to another two scooters, which were parked on the sidewalk in front of the Ministry of Justice. Both of the two scooter fires were immediately distinguished by police officers stationed at the two ministries.
The police investigation found that the three scooters had not initially been parked at the location where they were burned down, but officers have been unable to determine where they came from.
"These two cases showed that there is a big hole in our security measures and we shall assign more police officers to guard this area while we investigate the cases," said Yu Yi-hsien (
According to Yu, the precinct's criminal investigation section immediately began their investigation and interviewed possible witnesses. Their testimony helped the police identify a man right away. The police interrogated him and only released his last name, Chiou (
"He [Chiou] told us that he was waving national flags in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs every day. He said he does not need to protest by doing something illegal," said Hsu Jung-chun (許榮春), chief of the precinct's criminal investigation department.
Japan has deployed long-range missiles in a southwestern region near China, the Japanese defense minister said yesterday, at a time when ties with Beijing are at their lowest in recent years. The missiles were installed in Kumamoto in the southern region of Kyushu, as Japan is attempting to shore up its military capacity as China steps up naval activity in the East China Sea. “Standoff defense capabilities enable us to counter the threat of enemy forces attempting to invade our country ... while ensuring the safety of our personnel,” Japanese Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi said. “This is an extremely important initiative for
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) today accepted an invitation from Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) to lead a delegation to China next month, saying she hopes to promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and bring stability to the Taiwan Strait. “I am grateful and happy to accept this invitation,” Cheng said in a statement from the KMT chairperson’s office. Cheng said she hopes both sides can work together to promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, enhance exchange and cooperation, bring stability to the Taiwan Strait and improve people’s livelihoods. At today's news conference, Cheng said any efforts to
MORE POPULAR: Taiwan Pass sales increased by 59 percent during the first quarter compared with the same period last year, the Tourism Administration said The Tourism Administration yesterday said that it has streamlined the Taiwan Pass, with two versions available for purchase beginning today. The tourism agency has made the pass available to international tourists since 2024, allowing them to access the high-speed rail, Taiwan Railway Corp services, four MRT systems and four Taiwan Tourist Shuttles. Previously, five types of Taiwan Pass were available, but some tourists have said that the offerings were too complicated. The agency said only two types of Taiwan Pass would be available, starting from a three-day pass with the high-speed rail and a three-day pass with Taiwan Railway Corp. The former costs NT$2,800
The nation’s fastest supercomputer, Nano 4 (晶創26), is scheduled to be launched in the third quarter, and would be used to train large language models in finance and national defense sectors, the National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC) said. The supercomputer, which would operate at about 86.05 petaflops, is being tested at a new cloud computing center in the Southern Taiwan Science Park in Tainan. The exterior of the server cabinet features chip circuitry patterns overlaid with a map of Taiwan, highlighting the nation’s central position in the semiconductor industry. The center also houses Taiwania 2, Taiwania 3, Forerunner 1 and
RSS