By Jason Pan / Staff reporterMore than 1,200 suspects have been arrested in the latest crackdown on gangsters and criminal activities, the National Police Agency （NPA） said yesterday.
By Yao Yueh-hung and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerPolice are investigating whether an alleged piece of disinformation posted on Facebook by TV celebrity Antony Kuo （郭彥均） originated from a content farm.
Police are investigating whether an alleged piece of disinformation posted on Facebook by TV celebrity Antony Kuo (郭彥均) originated from a content farm.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Kuo shared a conversation that he allegedly had with a doctor friend in which the doctor said he had not rested one day since April 5 due to an increasing number of COVID-19 cases.
Kuo quoted the doctor as saying that children were suffering and that he was sad to see “many children pass away.”
Police said that numerous Facebook pages shared the same content at the time, which was “unusual” and
The Criminal Investigation Bureau on Monday warned people to be on their guard against online fraud after a woman complained of being defrauded of more than NT$1.5 million (US$51,177) while buying books online.
Online shopping has boomed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but people should be wary of people claiming to be a bank customer service staff, the bureau said in a press release on Monday.
After spending NT$310 on the online bookstore books.com.tw (博客來), the woman, surnamed Wu (吳), last week received a call from a person who claimed to be a customer service staff asking for her Line account to deal
The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday announced tightened COVID-19 vaccination requirements for workers and customers of certain types of recreational facilities, effective immediately.
From Friday to yesterday, 27 new cases of COVID-19 were linked to a cluster in Keelung, the center said, adding that the cluster includes customers and workers of a restaurant and karaoke bar, as well as their family members.
Many of the restaurant’s customers also frequented certain types of recreational facilities, especially escort services, said Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who heads the center.
“Therefore, the CECC is announcing that all customers of these recreational facilities