Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) yesterday filed a lawsuit against Minister of National Defense Chen Chao-min (陳肇敏) for his comments implying the assassination attempt on the eve of the 2004 presidential election was staged.
“I suggested that former president Chen ask for NT$10 million [US$300,000] in compensation for the damage the minister’s remarks caused to the former president’s reputation,” former Democratic Progressive Party legislator Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇), an attorney, told reporters as he filed the suit on the former president’s behalf at the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday morning.
Hsu said Chen Shui-bian would ask prosecutors in charge of the slander case to go to the original site of the incident to investigate.
Hsu said that although Chen Chao-min apologized for the remarks on Monday, the former president still chose to file the suit to defend his name.
During his first briefing to the legislature’s Diplomacy and National Defense Committee on May 19, Chen Chao-min said the wounds on former president Chen Shui-bian’s abdomen had not been caused by the shooting on Chinhua Street in Tainan City.
Chen Chao-min said his remarks were based on the investigation conducted by the 319 Shooting Truth Investigation Special Committee, of which he was a member.
The shooting occurred when Chen Shui-bian and former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) were campaigning in a jeep in Tainan City. The incident left both Chen Shui-bian and Lu with minor injuries.
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
MINOR DISRUPTION: The outage affected check-in and security screening, while passport control was done manually and runway operations continued unaffected The main departure hall and other parts of Terminal 2 at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport lost power on Tuesday, causing confusion among passengers before electricity was fully restored more than an hour later. The outage, the cause of which is still being investigated, began at about midday and affected parts of Terminal 2, including the check-in gates, the security screening area and some duty-free shops. Parts of the terminal immediately activated backup power sources, while others remained dark until power was restored in some of the affected areas starting at 12:23pm. Power was fully restored at 1:13pm. Taoyuan International Airport Corp said in a
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