The Bureau of Investigation confirmed yesterday that bureau Director Yeh Sheng-mao (葉盛茂) gave testimony at the Taipei District Court in February in a slander suit filed by People First Party Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜) against President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) for claiming that Soong had met with a senior Chinese official early last year.
Soong filed the lawsuit in June last year, demanding the president pay NT$50 million (US$1.5 million) in compensation and publish an apology in major newspapers for defaming him.
The president had said that Soong met with Chen Yunlin (
The president said he based his statements about the Soong-Chen meeting on "something" that could prove him right.
During a court hearing in December last year, the president's lawyer, Lin Chih-hao (
As the classified evidence was related to Yeh, he was summoned to give testimony in a secret hearing in February.
The bureau said that it could not disclose the content of Yeh's testimony to the court as he had reached an agreement with the court to keep it confidential.
According to a story in local Chinese-language newspaper the China Times yesterday, Yeh told the court that the "evidence" of the alleged Soong-Chen meeting was based on media reports and when pressed by the judge, he said he did not know whether the meeting took place.
The National Immigration Agency (NIA) said yesterday that it will revoke the dependent-based residence permit of a Chinese social media influencer who reportedly “openly advocated for [China’s] unification through military force” with Taiwan. The Chinese national, identified by her surname Liu (劉), will have her residence permit revoked in accordance with Article 14 of the “Measures for the permission of family- based residence, long-term residence and settlement of people from the Mainland Area in the Taiwan Area,” the NIA said in a news release. The agency explained it received reports that Liu made “unifying Taiwan through military force” statements on her online
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off Taitung County at 1:09pm today, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. The hypocenter was 53km northeast of Taitung County Hall at a depth of 12.5km, CWA data showed. The intensity of the quake, which gauges the actual effect of a seismic event, measured 4 in Taitung County and Hualien County on Taiwan's seven-tier intensity scale, the data showed. The quake had an intensity of 3 in Nantou County, Chiayi County, Yunlin County, Kaohsiung and Tainan, the data showed. There were no immediate reports of damage following the quake.
Actor Darren Wang (王大陸) is to begin his one-year alternative military service tomorrow amid ongoing legal issues, the Ministry of the Interior said yesterday. Wang, who last month was released on bail of NT$150,000 (US$4,561) as he faces charges of allegedly attempting to evade military service and forging documents, has been ordered to report to Taipei Railway Station at 9am tomorrow, the Alternative Military Service Training and Management Center said. The 33-year-old would join about 1,300 other conscripts in the 263rd cohort of general alternative service for training at the Chenggong Ling camp in Taichung, a center official told reporters. Wang would first
A BETRAYAL? It is none of the ministry’s business if those entertainers love China, but ‘you cannot agree to wipe out your own country,’ the MAC minister said Taiwanese entertainers in China would have their Taiwanese citizenship revoked if they are holding Chinese citizenship, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) said. Several Taiwanese entertainers, including Patty Hou (侯佩岑) and Ouyang Nana (歐陽娜娜), earlier this month on their Weibo (微博) accounts shared a picture saying that Taiwan would be “returned” to China, with tags such as “Taiwan, Province of China” or “Adhere to the ‘one China’ principle.” The MAC would investigate whether those Taiwanese entertainers have Chinese IDs and added that it would revoke their Taiwanese citizenship if they did, Chiu told the Chinese-language Liberty Times (sister paper
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