Taipei, March 16 (CNA) Yunlin County Council Speaker Shen Tsung-lung (沈宗隆) was again detained and is being held incommunicado, in connection with a bribery case linked to wind power company wpd Taiwan Energy Co., prosecutors said Thursday.
Taipei, Jan. 11 (CNA) Police have warned residents across Taiwan to be on the lookout for counterfeit NT$1,000 (US$33) bills bearing the serial number HR484268XD following a number of recent seizures.
Staff writer, with CNAPeople should be on the lookout for counterfeit NT$1,000 bills bearing the serial number HR484268XD, police said yesterday, citing a number of recent seizures.
The former mayor of a Yunlin County township is to serve more than 10 years in jail for selling government jobs after the Supreme Court yesterday struck down his final appeal.
Former Beigang Township (北港) mayor Hsiao Yung-yi (蕭永義) contested four elections in the town as an independent, winning two of them.
However, he did not finish his most recent term after the judiciary in 2020 launched a corruption investigation against him.
After being found guilty by a local court in June last year, the case reached the Supreme Court after a series of appeals by Hsiao.
Judges in the earlier trials found him