Hualien prosecutors yesterday indicted Hualien County Commissioner Fu Kun-chi (傅崑萁) and his “ex-wife,” Hsu Chen-wei (徐榛蔚), on charges of forgery over Fu’s appointment of Hsu as his deputy commissioner last year.
The appointment, announced on Dec. 20, came just two days after the couple filed their divorce. The move at the time was interpreted by observers as an attempt by Fu to have his wife hold on to the post of commissioner should he be jailed during his term in office. Fu is appealing a six-and-a-half-year sentence for violating securities trading regulations.
Prosecutors yesterday said Fu and Hsu still lived together after filing for the divorce. The pair obviously did not intend to get divorced because they still participated in events and activities together instead of leading separate lives like normal divorced couples, prosecutors said, adding that the Ministry of the Interior earlier this year also deemed the pair faked their divorce.
Fu yesterday protested his innocence, saying it is couples, not the government, that enjoy the right to determine whether they are married or divorced.
He described the indictment as resulting from political maneuvering and said he could not accept it.
Following the appointment, the Control Yuan fined Fu NT$1 million (US$31,000) on March 8 for conflict of interests.
Yangmingshan National Park authorities yesterday urged visitors to respect public spaces and obey the law after a couple was caught on a camera livestream having sex at the park’s Qingtiangang (擎天崗) earlier in the day. The Shilin Police Precinct in Taipei said it has identified a suspect and his vehicle registration number, and would summon him for questioning. The case would be handled in accordance with public indecency charges, it added. The couple entered the park at about 11pm on Thursday and began fooling around by 1am yesterday, the police said, adding that the two were unaware of the park’s all-day live
Yangmingshan National Park’s Qingtiangang (擎天崗) nature area has gone viral after a park livestream camera observed a couple in the throes of intimate congress, which was broadcast live on YouTube, drawing large late-night crowds and sparking a backlash over noise, bright lights and disruption to wildlife habitat. The area’s livestream footage appeared to show a couple engaging in sexual activity on a picnic table in the park on Friday last week, with the uncensored footage streamed publicly online. The footage quickly spread across social media, prompting a tide of visitors to travel to the site to “check in” and recreate the
Fast food chain McDonald's is to raise prices by up to NT$5 on some products at its restaurants across Taiwan, starting on Wednesday next week, the company announced today. The prices of all extra value meals and sharing boxes are to increase by NT$5, while breakfast combos and creamy corn soup would go up by NT$3, the company said in a statement. The price of the main items of those meals, if ordered individually, would remain the same. Meanwhile, the price of a medium-sized lemon iced tea and hot cappuccino would rise by NT$3, extra dipping sauces for chicken nuggets would go up
Minister of Digital Affairs Lin Yi-ching (林宜敬) yesterday cited regulatory issues and national security concerns as an expert said that Taiwan is among the few Asian regions without Starlink. Lin made the remarks on Facebook after funP Innovation Group chief executive officer Nathan Chiu (邱繼弘) on Friday said Taiwan and four other countries in Asia — China, North Korea, Afghanistan and Syria — have no access to Starlink. Starlink has become available in 166 countries worldwide, including Ukraine, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, in the six years since it became commercial, he said. While China and North Korea block Starlink, Syria is not
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