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
Groups directed by Beijing are using violence and intimidation in Taiwan, former health minister and Chiayi mayor Twu Shiing-jer (涂醒哲) said on Thursday at a ceremony in Taipei unveiling a shrine to “Taiwanese Martyr” John Cheng (鄭達志).
Cheng, a 52-year-old sports physician, was killed while trying to stop David Chou (周文偉), 68, who allegedly opened fire on a gathering of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, on May 15.
“It is with a heavy heart that we attend this commemoration. We pray for Cheng’s spirit to stay with us, to protect all Taiwanese,” Twu said.
Taiwan Republic Office director Chilly
A surge in cases of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic is nearing its end, as the coronavirus has evolved to be highly infectious and less pathogenic.
The number of local Omicron cases this year reached 3,098 as of April 8, almost all of which were mild or asymptomatic, Central Epidemic Command Center data showed. Among those cases, only 10 were classified as severe, accounting for about 0.32 percent of the total, while two people who were in their 70s and 80s died, accounting for about 0.06 percent of the total.
Data from Hong Kong’s Omicron