Taipei prosecutors yesterday sought a summary judgement against Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Chiu Yi-ying (邱議瑩), who admitted to slapping Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lo Chih-chiang (羅智強) during a legislative session last year.
Prosecutors asked the Taipei District Court to rule without trial, citing Chiu's confession and saying her behavior set a poor example for an elected official.
Under Article 309 of the Criminal Code, she faces up to two months in detention or a NT$9,000 fine.
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In April, a summary court ordered Chiu to pay Lo NT$200,000 in damages, finding her actions intentional and "the reaction of a disgruntled person."
Chiu wrote on Facebook yesterday that she lost control after Lo mocked the Regenerative Medicine Act (再生醫療法) by livestreaming the vote, and she offered her "deepest apology."
She added that her decade-long effort to pass the bill stemmed from her own cancer treatment and said she would "own" her mistakes if they brought more attention to medical advances.
Three batches of banana sauce imported from the Philippines were intercepted at the border after they were found to contain the banned industrial dye Orange G, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday. From today through Sept. 2 next year, all seasoning sauces from the Philippines are to be subject to the FDA’s strictest border inspection, meaning 100 percent testing for illegal dyes before entry is allowed, it said in a statement. Orange G is an industrial coloring agent that is not permitted for food use in Taiwan or internationally, said Cheng Wei-chih (鄭維智), head of the FDA’s Northern Center for
LOOKING NORTH: The base would enhance the military’s awareness of activities in the Bashi Channel, which China Coast Guard ships have been frequenting, an expert said The Philippine Navy on Thursday last week inaugurated a forward operating base in the country’s northern most province of Batanes, which at 185km from Taiwan would be strategically important in a military conflict in the Taiwan Strait. The Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted Northern Luzon Command Commander Lieutenant General Fernyl Buca as saying that the base in Mahatao would bolster the country’s northern defenses and response capabilities. The base is also a response to the “irregular presence this month of armed” of China Coast Guard vessels frequenting the Bashi Channel in the Luzon Strait just south of Taiwan, the paper reported, citing a
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A total lunar eclipse, an astronomical event often referred to as a “blood moon,” would be visible to sky watchers in Taiwan starting just before midnight on Sunday night, the Taipei Astronomical Museum said. The phenomenon is also called “blood moon” due to the reddish-orange hue it takes on as the Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, completely blocking direct sunlight from reaching the lunar surface. The only light is refracted by the Earth’s atmosphere, and its red wavelengths are bent toward the moon, illuminating it in a dramatic crimson light. Describing the event as the most important astronomical phenomenon
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