The six children and younger brother of fugitive Wang You-theng (
"Wang You-theng was the head of the group," said Wang Lin-chiao (
Wang You-theng and his wife Wang Chin She-ying (
The Taipei District Prosecutors' Office placed the couple on the wanted list on Jan. 25. Arrest warrants for the couple are valid for 25 years.
Prosecutors are seeking a 30 year sentence and a fine of NT$1.71 billion (US$52.13 million) for Wang You-theng.
Wang's wife faces 28 years in prison and a NT$710 million fine if convicted.
The Taipei District Court began hearings for the case on April 2. Presiding Judge Lee Ying-hao (
Yesterday's hearing marked the first time that everybody involved in each of the eight mini-trials was summoned at the same time. As there were more than 200 people present, including the 79 defendants, their defense counsels and witnesses, the judges decided to hold the hearing in the Taipei District Court's auditorium instead of in a regular courtroom.
Gary Wang (
"He [Wang You-theng] made the decisions. I just followed them," Gary Wang said.
Wang Lin-i (
"He [Wang You-theng] was in charge of the entire operations of the group. I would like to apologize to anyone who was hurt by this case," Wang Lin-i said.
A total lunar eclipse coinciding with the Lantern Festival on March 3 would be Taiwan’s most notable celestial event this year, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said, urging skywatchers not to miss it. There would be four eclipses worldwide this year — two solar eclipses and two lunar eclipses — the museum’s Web site says. Taiwan would be able to observe one of the lunar eclipses in its entirety on March 3. The eclipse would be visible as the moon rises at 5:50pm, already partly shaded by the Earth’s shadow, the museum said. It would peak at about 7:30pm, when the moon would
Taiwan’s Li Yu-hsiang performs in the men’s singles figure skating short program at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday. Li finished 24th with a score of 72.41 to advance to Saturday’s free skate portion of the event. He is the first Taiwanese to qualify for the free skate of men’s singles figure skating at the Olympics since David Liu in 1992.
The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) yesterday held a ceremony marking the delivery of its 11th Anping-class offshore patrol vessel Lanyu (蘭嶼艦), saying it would boost Taiwan’s ability to respond to Beijing’s “gray zone” tactics. Ocean Affairs Council Deputy Minister Chang Chung-Lung (張忠龍) presided over the CGA event in the Port of Kaoshiung. Representatives of the National Security Council also attended the event. Designed for long-range and protracted patrol operations at sea, the Lanyu is a 65.4m-long and 14.8m-wide ship with a top speed of 44 knots (81.5kph) and a cruising range of 2,000 nautical miles (3704km). The vessel is equipped with a
Two siblings in their 70s were injured yesterday when they opened a parcel and it exploded, police in Yilan said, adding the brother and sister were both in stable condition. The two siblings, surnamed Hung (洪), had received the parcel two days earlier but did not open it until yesterday, the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday in Taiwan, police said. Chen Chin-cheng (陳金城), head of the Yilan County Government Police Bureau, said the package bore no postmark or names and was labeled only with the siblings’ address. Citing the findings of a
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