Model and actress Peng Hsin-yi (彭馨逸), more commonly known by her stage name, Cindy Yang (楊又穎), who committed suicide earlier this week, was a victim of online bullies, her elder brother said yesterday.
In the past few months, Peng’s family had accompanied her on visits to various clinics and hospitals in an attempt to help her get over the anonymous online abuse that had targeted her, her brother said.
Peng had been troubled by her suspicions that those who were spreading rumors about her might have been her close friends, he said, adding that she had not known whom to trust.
Citing a suicide note found next to her body on Tuesday, he said that Peng had hoped her death could help highlight the issue of bullying.
People should not take their online comments lightly and should not become “an accomplice in verbal bullying,” he said.
Peng’s brother did not want the media to identify him by name.
An entertainer with promising career prospects, Peng was found dead at her residence in Taichung. She was 24.
Along with the note, a metal canister reportedly containing helium was found beside her body.
She was one of the hosts of variety show Love Player (愛玩咖) between 2011 and 2013, and made her movie debut in First of May (五月一號), which is due to be released next month.
Peng was the daughter of Peng Tso-kwei (彭作奎), who served as minister of the Council of Agriculture from 1997 to 1999.
Speaking to reporters, Peng Hsin-yi’s brother said that her family does not want to identify those who had bullied his sister. The family only hopes that her death makes more people denounce anonymous online abuse, he said.
The news of Peng Hsin-yi’s death shocked and saddened fans as well as other entertainers, who have expressed an outpouring of sympathy in addition to outrage over online bullying.
Much of the abuse targeting Peng Hsin-yi appeared on a Facebook page that is not associated with any particular person, but operates like a blog or a forum.
Many of the posts do not mention Peng Hsin-yi by name, but instead use Chinese characters that sound like “Cindy Yang.” Her stage name in Chinese was Yang Yo-ying.
The posts apparently targeting Peng Hsin-yi call her phony, naive and hypocritical, among other things.
A free exhibition aimed at teaching the public about air-raid shelters and basic emergency personal protection skills today opened on the concourse level of the Taipei MRT's Ximen Station. The event, organized by the National Police Agency, aims to raise awareness about disaster preparedness ahead of nationwide air raid drills scheduled from July 15 to 18, which are part of broader urban resilience exercises. The exhibition outlines the recommended actions people should take depending on whether they are indoors, commuting or outdoors when air-raid sirens sound. It also teaches people how to equip air-raid shelters and pack emergency "go bags," with displays
A first shipment of five tons of Taiwan tilapia was sent from Tainan to Singapore on Wednesday, following an order valued at NT$600,000 (US$20,500) placed with a company in the city. The products, including frozen whole fish and pre- cooked fish belly, were dispatched from Jiangjun Fishing Harbor, where a new aquatic processing and logistics center is under construction. At the launch, Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) called the move a “breakthrough,” marking Taiwan’s expansion into the Singaporean tilapia market. Taiwan’s tilapia exports have traditionally focused on the United States, Canada, and the Middle East, Huang said, adding that the new foothold in
An electric bus charging facility at Taipei Metro’s Beitou Depot officially opened yesterday with 22 charging bays to serve the city’s 886 electric buses. Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) told a ceremony to mark the opening of the facility that the city aims to fully electrify its bus fleet by 2030. The number of electric buses has grown from about 650 last year to 886 this year and is expected to surpass 1,000 by the end of the year, Chiang said. Setting up the charging station in a metro depot optimizes land and energy use, as the metro uses power mainly during the
An exhibition demonstrating the rejuvenation of the indigenous Kuskus Village in Pingtung County’s Mudan Township (牡丹) opened at the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency’s conservation station in Taipei on Thursday. Agency Director-General Lin Hwa-ching (林華慶) said they have been promoting the use and development of forestry resources to local indigenous residents for eight years to drive regional revitalization. While modern conservation approaches mostly stem from western scientific research, eco-friendly knowledge and skills passed down through generations of indigenous people, who have lived in Taiwan for centuries, could be more suitable for the environment, he said. The agency’s Pingtung branch Director-General Yang Jui-fen (楊瑞芬)
RSS