Chinese police have taken in three of the four men charged with murdering a Taiwanese businessman in the Southern province of Suzhou, according to the China Times yesterday.
The body of Ilan county native Hsu Shih-chieh (許世杰) was discovered in the trunk of his own car over a week after he had gone missing last September. Hsu had been working and residing in China as the head of a company that manufactures air conditioning units.
Of the four convicted felons, one has yet to be turned into authorities. Two have received the death sentence while one was named an accomplice to the murder and sentenced to 7 years in jail. One of the men facing capital punishment will be held for two years before the sentence is delivered during which time he can be paroled.
According to Chinese investigative officials, one of the three convicted men had approached Hsu on the night of his murder posing as a traffic police offer and later stole 3,000 Chinese yuan (US$360), two cellular phones, a Rolex watch, and two ATM cards. Police said that Hsu had been strangled to death later that night with a piece of wire. Hsu's body was placed in his trunk and left in a vacant parking lot.
The China Times reported that police were able to solve the case after a store selling second-hand cell phones had come across Hsu's stolen phone.
The Mainland Affairs Council has continually pressed Beijing to sign an agreement to protect the rights and safety of Taiwanese businesspeople in China.
According to records provided by the Straits Exchange Foundation in September, the semi-official organization that oversees all Taiwanese investment in China, 63 Taiwanese businesspeople have been murdered while working and living in China since 1991; 115 taishang have gone missing; 50 have been kidnapped or illegally detained by authorities; and 78 have been robbed or otherwise physically harmed.
Three Taiwanese airlines have prohibited passengers from packing Bluetooth earbuds and their charger cases in checked luggage. EVA Air and Uni Air said that Bluetooth earbuds and charger cases are categorized as portable electronic devices, which should be switched off if they are placed in checked luggage based on international aviation safety regulations. They must not be in standby or sleep mode. However, as charging would continue when earbuds are placed in the charger cases, which would contravene international aviation regulations, their cases must be carried as hand luggage, they said. Tigerair Taiwan said that earbud charger cases are equipped
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Tropical Storm Fung-Wong would likely strengthen into a typhoon later today as it continues moving westward across the Pacific before heading in Taiwan’s direction next week, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 8am, Fung-Wong was about 2,190km east-southeast of Cape Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan’s southernmost point, moving westward at 25kph and possibly accelerating to 31kph, CWA data showed. The tropical storm is currently over waters east of the Philippines and still far from Taiwan, CWA forecaster Tseng Chao-cheng (曾昭誠) said, adding that it could likely strengthen into a typhoon later in the day. It is forecast to reach the South China Sea
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