President Chen Shui-bian's (
The decision is final.
Chen Hsin-yu filed the lawsuit against Hu Chung-hsin (
Chen Hsin-yu, a dentist, stayed in New York City between Sept. 12 and Sept. 16, 2005, to attend a short course on dental implant techniques, but Hu said she was seen in the company of friends opening an account with a New York bank. Hu did not cite any sources.
The court's ruling said Hu told the court a Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) member had told him about the matter and that the individual had confirmed this to the court.
Another dentist from Taiwan, who attended the same course, testified that Chen Hsin-yu skipped class one afternoon.
The court said it could not be ruled out that she might have used that opportunity to open the account.
Although the court asked the Ministry of Justice to verify whether she had opened an account, the ministry pointed out that it could not request help from the US with such an investigation because opening a bank account does not constitute a criminal act, the statement said.
The high court ruling said that although Hu's allegations were not proven to be true, Hu had attempted to check the information before he went public with it.
The court ruling also said that Hu's comments concerned a matter of public interest and therefore did not constitute slander.
The Taipei District Court found Hu not guilty in August.
Chen Hsin-yu, unhappy with the district court ruling, had told reporters: "Taiwan's courts only judge cases by their green or blue motives, they do not consider what is right or wrong."
Hu yesterday said he was pleased the court had cleared his name.
GREAT POWER COMPETITION: Beijing views its military cooperation with Russia as a means to push back against the joint power of the US and its allies, an expert said A recent Sino-Russian joint air patrol conducted over the waters off Alaska was designed to counter the US military in the Pacific and demonstrated improved interoperability between Beijing’s and Moscow’s forces, a national security expert said. National Defense University associate professor Chen Yu-chen (陳育正) made the comment in an article published on Wednesday on the Web site of the Journal of the Chinese Communist Studies Institute. China and Russia sent four strategic bombers to patrol the waters of the northern Pacific and Bering Strait near Alaska in late June, one month after the two nations sent a combined flotilla of four warships
‘LEADERS’: The report highlighted C.C. Wei’s management at TSMC, Lisa Su’s decisionmaking at AMD and the ‘rock star’ status of Nvidia’s Huang Time magazine on Thursday announced its list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence (AI), which included Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) chairman and chief executive officer C.C. Wei (魏哲家), Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) and AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su (蘇姿丰). The list is divided into four categories: Leaders, Innovators, Shapers and Thinkers. Wei and Huang were named in the Leaders category. Other notable figures in the Leaders category included Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Su was listed in the Innovators category. Time highlighted Wei’s
EVERYONE’S ISSUE: Kim said that during a visit to Taiwan, she asked what would happen if China attacked, and was told that the global economy would shut down Taiwan is critical to the global economy, and its defense is a “here and now” issue, US Representative Young Kim said during a roundtable talk on Taiwan-US relations on Friday. Kim, who serves on the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, held a roundtable talk titled “Global Ties, Local Impact: Why Taiwan Matters for California,” at Santiago Canyon College in Orange County, California. “Despite its small size and long distance from us, Taiwan’s cultural and economic importance is felt across our communities,” Kim said during her opening remarks. Stanford University researcher and lecturer Lanhee Chen (陳仁宜), lawyer Lin Ching-chi
When Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) was wooing leaders from across Africa with a banquet on Wednesday night, King Mswati III of Eswatini was notably absent. That is because the kingdom — about the size of New Jersey and with just 1.2 million people — is one of Taiwan’s remaining dozen diplomatic allies. That means Eswatini does not participate in Xi’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the centerpiece of China’s diplomatic outreach to Africa, which was held in Beijing this week. The landlocked nation, which sits between Mozambique and South Africa, is the last holdout in Beijing’s seven-plus decade mission to make Africa
RSS