By Wang Chieh, Lin Liang-sheng and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writerPolice have detained Wang Wen-tsung （王文宗）, chairman of Tainan’s Cihji Temple, and listed him as an additional suspect in two shooting incidents at Democratic Progressive Party-linked sites in the city’s Syuejia District （學甲） in November last year.
An officer at Huaping (華平) police station of the Tainan Police Department’s 4th Precinct has been given two minor demerits for accessing the personal information of 25 baseball cheerleaders.
The officer surnamed Liu (劉) accessed the household registration system with a computer at the station three times between April and last month to check photographs of the cheerleaders on their national identification cards, the precinct said on Sunday following an investigation.
Liu was suspended from accessing the system for three months and the chief of the police station, surnamed Shih (施), was given a warning for insufficient oversight, it said.
The case came
A recent appeal from a severely disabled Tainan man for legalization of voluntary euthanasia has rekindled an issue that is seldom the center of public discourse.
Born in 1956, Tsai Ching-hsiung (蔡清雄) contracted polio when he was a child, causing the muscles of both his legs and his right arm to shrink. Despite his limitations, he has engaged in charity work for nearly 30 years in Tainan, earning him the nickname “the little disabled giant” around his neighborhood.
For more than two decades, Tsai has made regular visits with friends to nursing homes to chat and sing with the residents, and sometimes
Hu Chia-chi (胡家琪), Taiwan’s second-ever female graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, was yesterday welcomed home by her family and Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲).
Hu, the third daughter of a military family, was one of the 1,014 cadets to graduate from the prestigious academy on May 21.
She said she would enlist in the army after receiving additional training.
“Hu is the light of Tainan and Taiwan. Not only was she the sole Taiwanese cadet in [her class], but she also performed brilliantly and was promoted to cadet company commander,” Huang told a news event to mark Hu’s