Taipei, Oct. 18 (CNA) The Supreme Court on Monday upheld lower court verdicts that sentenced two former police officers to at least eight years in jail for demanding or taking bribes from migrant workers who illegally left their jobs to allow them to go free.
(MURFREESBORO) A world-renowned forensic scientist who’s helped investigate some of the most infamous deaths of the last 50 years is helping Middle Tennessee State University resume its acclaimed William M. Bass Legends in Forensic Science Lectureship series this fall.
Dr. Henry C. Lee, professor emeritus of the University of New Haven’s College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences that bears his name, is scheduled to speak at 6:30 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 20, at MTSU&rsqu .
Taipei, Aug. 8 (CNA) Thousands of Taiwanese lured to Cambodia by the promise of high-paying jobs may be stuck there as victims of human trafficking, according to an estimate by the National Police Agency (NPA).
The death of a two-year-old boy nicknamed En En (恩恩) in New Taipei City’s Jhonghe District (中和) caused public outrage and people to blame the city’s mayor.
Like me, New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi (侯友宜) is from Chiayi County’s Puzi City (朴子). When former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was Taipei mayor, Hou was commissioner of the Taipei Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division and I was commissioner of the city’s Department of Health. As commissioners, we attended the city’s Police and Sanitation Committee meetings, and we helped with each other’s duties on numerous occasions. We also worked together on the murder
The Taipei Police Department yesterday said that it has seized the largest amphetamine cache of the past few years, with the drugs valued at more than NT$2 billion (US$71.38 million).
The investigation began late last year, involving the arrest of two individuals surnamed Chen (陳) and Lu (呂) on Nov. 1, Taipei Police Commissioner Yang Yuan-ming (楊源明) said at a news conference yesterday.
The arrest was not disclosed until yesterday, as the investigation continued during Chen and Lu’s detention.
Chen was the main person of interest and was the target of a joint task force investigation that was conducted in September last year,