Hsinchu mayor sues Taipei councilor for slander

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Hsinchu Mayor Lin Chih-chien (林智堅) yesterday sued Taipei City Councilor Wang Hung-wei (王鴻薇) for slander after the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) politician publicly accused him of academic plagiarism.
Lin’s lawyer, Yang Long-yuan (楊隆源), told reporters that Wang’s claims that Lin had copied his master’s thesis from a research report commissioned by the Hsinchu Science Park Bureau were “false” and constituted slander.
Speaking to reporters earlier yesterday, Lin said he had asked Yang to file the defamation suit with the Hsinchu District Prosecutors’ Office to protect his reputation from accusations leveled by Wang during a news conference and a

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