Convenience Store Clerk Stabbed 5 Times after Customer Loses Face

Clerk laying on bench after being stabbed by customer

December 24, 2018 Phillip Charlier 1 Comment convenience store, knife-attack, Sanchong District

A man who struggled to come up with enough money to purchase drinks and snacks at a Family Mart convenience store in Sanchong District, New Taipei City, stabbed the clerk after feeling humiliated by a comment. Shortly before midnight last night, a 44-year-old man named Ye put more than NT$100 worth of goods on the counter, and pulled NT$30 in small change out of his pocket. While feeling around for more change, the clerk, who had experience with Mr Ye

Man who attacked woman in Sanchong District

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December 17, 2018December 17, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment assault, attempted kidnapping, New Taipei City, Sanchong District

Four men who witnessed a man grab a woman in Sanchong District, New Taipei City, went to her assistance and suppressed the man until police arrived, Friday evening, December 14. At around 11:00pm, Ms Chiang, 20, had finished work at a hairdressing salon and was walking home on Zhengbei Road when a stranger approached her and put his arm around her shoulders. Chiang resisted and the man grabbed her in a headlock. Chiang managed to separate herself twice, but the

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December 16, 2018December 16, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment guns, police shooter, Tainan

Police investigators have identified a suspect who shot two police officers in Tainan three days ago. Police issued an alert appealing to the public to be on the lookout for the shooter, and warned that the suspect is considered armed and dangerous. Two officers were shot, but not seriously injured, on a remote road in a rural mountain district of Tainan City on Wednesday night. See previous article. DNA tests on a bicycle, and a car found nearby, identified a

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December 13, 2018December 13, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment police officers injured, shooting, Tainan

Two police officers suffered non-life threatening injuries after a gunman shot at them in a rural district of Tainan last night. One officer was saved by his bullet proof vest after being shot in the chest and upper back. Officers Wang and Yan from the Yujing Police station were on patrol on a mountain road in Nanhsi Township at around 10:20pm last night when they spotted a man pushing a bicycle in the remote area. The officers stopped and asked

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December 10, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment drive-by shooting, drugs, gangsters, Hsinchu County, ketamine

A man suffered four gunshot wounds after a gunman strafed his car in a drive-by shooting in Hukou Township, Hsinchu City, yesterday, Sunday, December 9. At around 2:00pm Mr Wang, 21, was driving his white Mercedes Benz sedan when he noticed a vehicle following his. Wang stopped outside the residence of an acquaintance named Guo, on Shengli Road. The driver of the following vehicle stopped beside Wang’s vehicle, lowered the window, fired more than 10 shots at the driver’s side

Ms Wu walks into a police station and tells the officer she has killed someone

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December 7, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment Changhua County, homicide, murder

A woman in Changhua County attacked her husband with a fruit knife, and stabbed her daughter when she came to her father’s defense in the early hours of the morning today, December 7. Both victims were declared dead after being rushed to hospital. Ms. Wu, 40, of Indonesian nationality, was divorced from her 41 year-old husband, but still lived with him and his parents in Puhsin Township. According to Ms Wu’s confession to police, Wu decided to murder her husband

labor activist Lee Ming-yan after his arrest

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November 2, 2018November 2, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment labor-law, Taipei City Labor Department

Taipei City Labor Commissioner Lai Hsiang-lin (賴香伶) was released from hospital this morning after a man barged into her office Wednesday afternoon, and hit her in the face with a concrete reinforcement bar. Lai spent two nights in hospital and received 11 stitches to her left eyebrow after the attack. Doctors said that Lai fortunately did not suffer concussion or intracranial hemorrhage and that the wound should heal in around one week. Lai’s attacker, Lee Ming-yen, described as a labor

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October 29, 2018October 29, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment homicide, murder, NCKU, Tainan City

Police arrested a suspect this morning, after the body of a woman was found at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan City last night, October 28. Schoolmates of Ms Chen, 24, had gone to a room on the 4th floor of the School of Social Sciences to discuss research papers at around 1:00pm. They found that Chen, second-year post-graduate student, had arrived before them and put her things in the room. However, Chen did not show up for the meeting.

machete and other objects thrown from the 12th floor

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October 19, 2018October 19, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment amphetamines, decapitation, Taoyuan City

A man in Taoyuan City killed his own mother last night, then decapitated the body and threw the head into the community courtyard from their 12th floor apartment. The 33 year-old man named Liang, who has criminal records for drugs, intimidation and fraud offences, quarreled with his 67 year-old mother at around 7:00pm last night. High on amphetamines, Liang flew into a rage and stabbed his mother to death with a kitchen knife. Police said that their were dozens of

A prisoner convicted of murder of wife and child

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September 2, 2018September 2, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment death penalty, execution

Taiwan’s opposition KMT party has questioned the timing of the execution of a prisoner, after the ruling DPP broke a more than two-year long hiatus, and executed a man just a few months before nationwide municipal elections scheduled for November 24. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) spokesperson Hung Meng-kai (洪孟楷) suggested that the Tsai administration had engaged in selective law enforcement in an effort to pander to the electorate with a show of being tough on crime. On Friday, August 31,

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August 10, 2018 Phillip Charlier 0 Comment kidnapping, Neihu District, random attack, Taipei City

Passersby rushed to the assistance of a woman and her daughter after a man grabbed the girl and attempted to wrest her away from her mother in Neihu District, Taipei City, Wednesday, August 8. At around 6:00pm a woman named Wu was walking hand in hand with her daughter on Minquan Road, when a man standing outside a cafe suddenly lunged forward and grabbed her 7 year-year-old daughter’s backpack. As Ms Wu pulled her daughter by the arm, the man

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Convenience Store Clerk Stabbed 5 Times after Customer Loses Face

Passersby Rescue Woman grabbed by man in Sanchong District

Police Shooter was already Wanted for Attempted Murder: Public Alert Issued

Two Police Officers Shot and Injured in Tainan

Man Shot in Broad Daylight in Hsinchu County

Woman in Changhua County Stabs ex-Husband and Teen Daughter to Death

Crazed Activist attacks Labor Commissioner with Iron Bar

University Student Murdered on Campus: Cleaner Confesses

Man Decapitates his Mother and tosses Head from 12th Floor

Timing of Prisoner’s Execution ahead of Elections Questioned

Man Attempts to Snatch Girl in Random Street Attack