By Tsai Ching-hua and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writerA life-size statue of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is to be unveiled on Saturday, ahead of his state funeral on Tuesday next week, a temple in Kaohsiung said.
<strong>Jan. 10 to Jan. 16</strong>
Vowing to blow up a 2,000-tonne ship and paralyze Kaohsiung Harbor, fed-up residents of Hongmaogang Village (紅毛港) took action in the afternoon of Jan. 14, 2002.
Ignoring the local police chief’s repeated warnings, the villagers connected a towboat with the ship and were about to drag it to the harbor’s main channel when over 100 officers arrived to stop them. An intense clash and standoff resulted, and by evening the instigators were arrested and the ship dragged back to shore.
This was the first desperate measure of Hongmaogang Village Rights’ Promotion Association chief Chang Chi-hsiung (張吉鴻). If