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The Tainan District Court on Tuesday cleared three members of the Taiwan People’s Communist Party who last year put a mask designed to look like the Chinese flag on a statue of Japanese engineer Yoichi Hatta in a public park, before making inflammatory statements. The ruling by the Tainan judge is an example of inconsistent application of the law.
In a video they filmed and uploaded, the three men implied that COVID-19 oginated in either the US or Japan. Such a statement could be considered dissemination of disinformation, which would be an actionable offense. The men also told Japanese in
Court rejects civil lawsuit over 2016 building collapse
Staff writer, with CNA
The Tainan District Court on Thursday rejected a class-action lawsuit filed by former residents of a housing complex that in 2016 collapsed during an earthquake.
The court ruled that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by the Tainan Public Works Bureau, which had issued the construction licenses for the Weiguan Jinlong building in the city’s Yongkang District (永康).
The ruling can be appealed.
The 16-story complex collapsed during a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that struck southern Taiwan on Feb. 6, 2016, killing 117 people and injuring 504.
One-hundred-and-fifteen of those killed and 104 of those injured were in the building.