Kaohsiung prosecutors are to appeal a seven-year-and-10-month sentence against a man in a fatal driving under the influence (DUI) case, a sentence the husband of the woman who was killed called “lenient.”
In sentencing Huang Tzu-yang (黃子洋) on Friday, the Kaohsiung District Court said that the death of a woman he hit last year while intoxicated did not constitute homicide.
Huang on Dec. 26 allegedly sped through a red light in the city’s Cianjin District (前金), hitting a woman and her husband, surnamed Lin (林), as they crossed an intersection with their two daughters.
Lin’s wife died, while Lin was seriously injured with
An investigation of 29 university campus restaurants found 21 to be in contravention of food safety regulations, with breaches ranging from bacterial contamination to serving expired food, the Executive Yuan’s Consumer Protection Committee said.
The probe, which took place in April and last month, rated restaurants on campuses in Taipei, New Taipei City, Taoyuan, Hsinchu City, Taichung, Changhua City and Yilan City, on 24 points of compliance, committee official Wang Chih-hung (王志宏) told a news conference in Taipei on Wednesday.
Eight restaurants met all food safety requirements, while only one Zhi-De Vegetarian at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) in Taipei
Three human skeletons and artifacts believed to be about 400 years old were unearthed by construction workers at National Ilan University in Yilan County, the university said yesterday.
The discoveries were made on May 10 as workers were digging to expand the College of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science’s facilities, the university said in a statement.
The skeletons were found at three sites, along with glass beads, copper bells and rings, discs and a fish-shaped metal knot, it said.
The find is likely connected to the “Old Baili Village” (擺厘舊社, Bai Li Jiu She), an as-yet-undiscovered Kavalan settlement that has been mentioned in