Taiwan man kills girlfriend, wishes her parents Happy New Year
Posted on : 2008-02-10 | Author : DPA
News Category : Asia

Taipei – A Taiwanese man killed his girlfriend at her home and wished her parents a Happy New Year before fleeing, press reports said on Sunday. Yuan Hong-tzung, 33, began dating Wang, a 33-year-old divorcee with a son, half a year ago, cable TV channel TVBS said.

Well I am back to talk about all the wacky, crazy and ugly in a small island called Taiwan.  So this week I learned that a Taiwanese man has just killed his girlfriend before giving Lunar New Year wishes to the girlfriend’s parents.  It’s so nice of him to kill someone and then wish the deceased’s parents a happy new year because it is just an incredibly Taiwanese thing to do.

Recently Wang, an accountant, wanted to end her relationship with Yuang, a clerk at a communications products store, but Yuan refused to part ways, TVBS said.

On Saturday afternoon, Yuan went to Wang’s Taipei home to negotiate. Wang refused to talk to him and retired to her room.

Yuan strangled Wang with his hands and then went to the sitting room where Wang’s parents and relatives were celebrating the Chinese New Year.

It looks like there is much more than meets the eye.  I have always heard stories of Taiwanese who refuse to accept reality.  This is most true for those Taiwanese who always act as if Taiwan is the world’s second or third largest economy or believe their so-called army is on par with the Americans, Russians, and Europeans.  This holds even more weight when they often rant about “UN for Taiwan” or “Taiwan independence” while at the same time talking about how their island is too good for the United Nations or promoting greater dependence to the United States for their island’s existence.

It’s really sad that Taiwanese are adverse to living in reality and will become extremely petty, bitter, spiteful and unethical just to maintain their deluded views of their own lives and the world.  Taiwanese are rabidly hostile towards anything remotely associated with China or Chinese despite being proven to be largely of ethnic Chinese extraction.  People like this Wang fellow represent this Taiwanese cultural attitude who are adverse to both reality and to all things Chinese.  It would not surprise me if he decided to kill his girlfriend because he refused to accept the end of their relationship and the fact it happened around the Chinese New Year period.

He sat down and chatted with Wang’s parents and relatives, wished them Happy New Year, and left, the report said.

Wang hailed a taxi to take him to a police station where he turned himself in. When police went to Wang’s home, her parents were shocked to learn that their daughter was not sleeping as they had thought.

“Yuan does not talk much. But today he chatted with us and wished us Happy New Year. When he was leaving, I told him it was cold and he should wear more clothes. There was no indication he had killed my daughter,” Wang’s mother told reporters.

So this guy kills his girlfriend, wishes her parents a happy new year, turns himself in to the cops yet does not have the courage or courtesy to inform the late girl’s parents that he killed her.  Sounds like a typical Taiwanese guy to me.

Two allies voice their support for Taiwan’s UN bid

STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA
Wednesday, Oct 03, 2007, Page 3

Two more of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies on Monday expressed their support for the country’s bid to join the UN at the ongoing annual session of the UN General Assembly.

Speaking at a general session, Tuvaluan Deputy Prime Minister Tavau Teii voiced his disappointment that the world body had refused even to put the issue of Taiwan’s membership bid on the agenda of the session.

Teii urged the UN to urgently address the issue of Taiwan’s right to join the body, stressing that the nation has the ability to fulfill its obligations as a full member of the world body as required by the UN Charter.

Let’s be serious for a moment.  Does anyone actually believe that Tuvalu’s pleas for Taiwan will actually hold any real weight in the United Nations?  Other than providing the world with the “.tv” domain, is this small pacific island-nation really that powerful in the international stage to sway the world to its views?

proper resolution

“The United Nations cannot be said to be universal, nor can global peace and security be assured until the issue of membership for Taiwan in the organization is properly resolved,” Teii said.

Meanwhile, Patteson Oti, minister of foreign affairs, external trade and immigration of the Solomon Islands, attributed the “indignity” suffered by Taiwan to what he called “organized international hypocrisy” by “a powerful constellation of states interested only in the protection of trade and investment rather than any humanitarian concerns.”

Oti urged the General Assembly to implore China to pledge to use peaceful means to settle its sovereignty dispute with Taiwan and proposed that the Security Council launch an investigation into the cross-strait situation to determine whether it was likely to endanger international peace and security.

Also on Monday, the UN representative of Malawi wrote letters to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; Srgjan Kerim, president of the 62nd session of the General Assembly; and Leslie Christian, Ghana’s permanent representative to the UN who is serving as the president of the Security Council this month, urging the world body to deal with Taiwan’s application “properly and seriously.”

Indignity is a misleading world for Taiwan as it is currently not under any actual oppression or cutoff from the entire world.  Real countries that are going through indignities are in Burma, with the recent crackdowns by their military junta, and the poor people in Darfur, Sudan.  Suggesting that Taiwan is suffering just like those people in Burma and Sudan is simply despicable and shows the ignorance of these island nations.  Yet I am sure the Taiwan government will provide handsome “foreign aid” to these island-nations when the time comes.

It is also funny to see the Solomon Islands having the nerve to invoke the Security Council to resolve a the so-called “Taiwan question”.  It’s quite ironic seeing as the Permanent Five members of the Security Council are the United States, Russia, China, France and Great Britain, none of which will ever support such an investigation on Taiwan let alone listen to any country from the General Assembly.  Taiwan’s nominal allies seriously need to wise up on how the United Nations actually works.

I find it amusing that the Taipei Times never bothered to report the results from these passioned pleas by Tuvalu, the Solomon Islands, Malawi, and even Ghana.  I guess their pleas fell on deaf ears as usual I am sad to say.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday rebutted Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi’s (楊潔箎) recent remarks at a UN session in which he called Taiwan an inseparable part of China and described Taiwan’s planned referendum on its UN bid as a move toward de jure independence.

Yang made the remarks in a speech delivered at a UN General Assembly session on Saturday.

Meanwhile, Cabinet spokesman Shieh Jhy-wey (謝志偉) said yesterday that the boycott by opposition lawmakers of a Cabinet proposal to designate Oct. 24 as “Taiwan United Nations Day” is “unacceptable.”

Shieh made the remarks after Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and People First Party (PFP) lawmakers blocked the proposal from being placed on the agenda for discussion at Friday’s legislative plenary session.

Shieh said that even though the KMT has initiated a campaign for a referendum on pushing for the country’s return to the UN under the name “Republic of China,” the boycott shows that the KMT opposes the country’s UN membership bid.

Describing the campaign to join the UN under the name “Taiwan” as the “common aspiration” of Taiwanese, Shieh said the Cabinet would once again submit the “UN Day” proposal to the legislature.

I like how the writers decide to suddenly change the subject after realizing they don’t have much successes to report on their allies’ pleas to the United Nations.  Therefore, they start talking about what their joke opposition parties are doing without providing any context to their actions.  It’s great how they never bothered to explain why the opposition is trying to block a “Taiwan United Nations Day” but write sentences that imply it is because they like China, which is called “spin”.

So it looks like the government decides to speak for all Taiwanese by claiming joining the United Nations is the top priority to the point where they are willing to receive a rejection at the next UN General Assembly meeting in 2008.

Oct. 24 designated `Taiwan UN Day,’ torch relay planned

STAFF REPORTER, WITH CNA
Thursday, Sep 27, 2007, Page 3

Oct. 24 has been designated “Taiwan UN Day,” Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (張俊雄) announced yesterday.

The day marks the anniversary of the coming into force of the UN Charter and is celebrated around the world as United Nations Day.

The premier made the announcement during yesterday morning’s weekly Cabinet meeting after hearing a report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Taiwan’s bid for UN membership and another report by the Sports Affairs Council on a plan to hold a torch relay on Oct. 24 to promote the nation’s UN membership bid.

I find it funny how Taiwan still doesn’t get the hint after they were rejected just a week ago from ever gaining a seat in the United Nations. Making public awareness days about the United Nations with a torch relay as a result of their recent failures in both the United Nations and the Olympics is just absurd as diplomatic initiatives but they are great just for local votes.

Not a public holiday

Chang ordered the Ministry of the Interior to process the paperwork as soon as possible to facilitate the declaration of the commemorative day, which will not be observed as a public holiday.

He said that even though the application had failed, the government had taken a “big step forward” this year by applying for UN membership under the name “Taiwan.”

“Today, we want to declare to our citizens and to the international community that we will not be discouraged. Taiwan’s drive to join the United Nations will not stop here,” he said.

By not making it into a holiday and preaching a failed message to a already UN-weary crowd is not going to help make the situation any better. If the government actually had any brains, they would give themselves and their people some time to regroup from this setback and then start the vicious cycle all over again. But then again, all of these moves are done to get votes for the upcoming elections.

Out of touch

Chang said that many Taiwanese have lost touch with UN-related issues since the Republic of China’s withdrawal from the organization in 1971.

“We want to remind the public of the importance of the issue so that more people will support the idea,” Chang added.

Cabinet Spokesman Shieh Jhy-wey (謝志偉) yesterday released details about the torch relay planned to coincide with the new holiday.

“It is my understanding that President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) will carry a torch and lead the activity,” Shieh said.

Shieh said that the relay would be held from 7am to 7pm and that a total of 25 counties would join in.

More than 12,500 baseball hats and T-shirts will be distributed to participants, Shieh said.

Additional reporting by Jimmy Chuang

It’s also great that the government is reminding people of the Olympic Torch Relay they recently lost by substituting it with a politicized torch relay that reminds people of the government’s failure in gaining a UN seat and for screwing themselves out of a rare Olympic Torch Relay. It’s really funny knowing that these newly-announced initiatives by the Taiwan government is just a way to also mask their recent failures in the world stage on top of getting votes.

It’s also great to know that the government will be spending more taxpayer money to remind people of these high profile failures. Only in Taiwan can we see such absurdities abound.

Olympic torch will bypass Taiwan
The Olympic torch will not pass through Taiwan because negotiators could not resolve differences with the Beijing authorities, officials have confirmed.

The two sides disagreed over the route the torch should take on its way to the Beijing Games in 2008.

Taiwanese officials also objected to Chinese insistence that the use of Taiwan’s flag and national anthem be limited at torch-related events.

China described the outcome as a “vile precedent”.

It is truly sad that Taiwan would have the nerve to turn a simple Olympic torch relay into a political issue just for a handful of votes in their upcoming election.  Taiwan has already celebrated their 15th rejection to the United Nation and now they can celebrate their loss of a key Olympic relay route.  Taiwan has in the past never complained about flying their “Chinese Taipei” flag or  “Flag Song” in any Olympic event except this one.

I was surprised China was kind enough to let them fly their own local flags in their much-anticipated torch relay, but now they will have neither because Taiwan thought it could win brownie points for adding a bad taste to the Olympics just for petty votes.  This is just despicable and proves to the wrong people that Taiwan really does have a provincial mentality.

Beijing views Taiwan as part of its territory. They have, however, been separately governed since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.

‘Deeply regret’

Beijing has planned a lengthy route for the Olympic torch. It will pass through more than 20 cities and ascend Mount Everest on its way to the Chinese capital.

In the original schedule, the torch was to arrive in Taiwan from Vietnam and then go on to Hong Kong.

But Taiwanese officials had argued that this implied that Taiwan was part of China and had asked for the route to be changed.

Chinese officials had also asked that only songs and flags approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) be used at events related to the Olympic torch in Taiwan – ruling out use of the Taiwanese national anthem and national flag.

Taiwan’s Sports Minister Yang Jong-her said the two sides “were not able to reach consensus over the arrangement of the relay after more than one month of discussions”.

“We deeply regret the result,” the minister said.

The Beijing organising committee said Taipei had “violated the Olympic Charter and manipulated the arrangements for the Taiwan leg of the relay for political purposes”.

This created a “vile precedent of an International Olympic Committee member refusing the torch relay within its jurisdiction,” the committee said on its website.

Taiwan getting the torch from Vietnam and then handing it off to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region isn’t so bad when one thinks about it.  Getting the torch from one country and then handing it off to a separate political entity in China is exactly what it is: a hand-off among separate International Olympic Committee entities.  I don’t understand why the Taiwanese always read for things that just aren’t there as they are the ones who created this ruckus with China in the very first place.

I am sure the “Democratic Progressive Party” will score big in their island’s elections, but they are going to lose out on the world since they have a hard time seeing the bigger picture for some odd reason.  Taiwan needs to realize that we live in 2007 and it isn’t 1980 or even 1984; especially when the United States does not support their lust for war with China.

The IOC had set 20 September as a deadline for resolving the dispute, Taiwanese officials said.

Now I wonder if Taiwan is going to boycott the 2008 Olympics, much to the disservice to their hard-working athletes.

UN rejects membership for Taiwan
By Laura Trevelyan
BBC News, UN, New York

The United Nations has once again blocked Taiwan’s quest for membership of the world body, despite a huge high-profile campaign by the island.

A key UN committee has rejected a proposal from Taiwan’s allies to put its bid on the agenda of the general assembly, meeting now in New York.

China, which claims Taiwan as a province, is adamantly opposed to UN membership for the island.

Taiwan and mainland China split in 1949 amid civil war.

There you go. After spending thousands if not millions on a grassroots campaign and having nominal allies claiming support for a UN seat, Taiwan is rejected for the 15th time in a row not counting the rejections made earlier this summer. This is what happens when the island refuses to listen to America’s advice and attempt to make anti-American protests in response.

Having island-wide marches and spending money to flood advertisements on major newspapers has amounted to nothing. People are just aware Taiwan is not in the United Nations, but no one was moved to make any steps that would get them in.

Referendum planned

This is the 15th consecutive year that Taiwan’s quest for membership of the United Nations has been rejected.

After the split in 1949, Taiwan became the stronghold of the nationalists and the mainland became the communist People’s Republic of China.

However, until 1971, the Chinese seat at the UN was held by Taiwan under its formal title, the Republic of China.

But then the United Nations expelled Taiwan and gave the seat to the Beijing government.

Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, was asked why the UN could not consider Taiwan’s membership.

He said it was legally impossible because of that 1971 general assembly resolution that expelled the representatives of nationalist China.

Taiwan, though, has no intention of giving up its bid for membership. The government is planning a referendum on the issue for March.

Ok, so the bid failed miserably as expected and the government is still going to ram their heads into the wall by having a meaningless referendum over this. I am sure spending extra funds to have a fruitless referendum and when the United Nations says “no” they mean “no”. Not “maybe” not “yes” and Taiwan should stop running themselves into the brick wall and return to reality.

Taiwanese march to back UN bid
At least 100,000 people have marched in Taiwan in support of a government plan to hold a referendum on joining the UN under the name Taiwan.

The UN has rejected previous bids from the island to join the body under its official name, Republic of China.

The bids anger Beijing, which sees Taiwan as a breakaway province. China has vowed to use force if Taiwan took steps towards formal independence.

China’s opposition means Taiwan’s bids for a UN seat are certain to fail.

Taiwan can keep talking as if they are a real country and keep having nice marches on hot weekends, but it will amount to nothing but bad publicity and lost time.   Taiwan can keep hitting themselves with the head on this until they become stupid but they are never going to be a part of the United Nations.

The march, in the southern city of Kaohsiung, attracted hundreds of thousands of people according to organisers, while police said 100,000 took part.

Switched recognition

Kaohsiung is a power base for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh.

The government intends to time the referendum with the presidential vote next March.

Analysts say the DPP hopes the referendum debate will shore up its support in the elections.

“Give Taiwan a chance to join the UN,” Mr Hsieh told a crowd in Kaohsiung before the march.

Independence-leaning President Chen Shui-bian said Taiwan had “every right to be a full UN member, standing on equal footing with other member states”.

The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) also favours a referendum on joining the UN, but under the island’s official name Republic of China.

The KMT held a separate rally for the central city of Taichung attended by its presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou which attracted an estimated 50,000 people.

The UN switched its recognition from Taiwan to mainland China in 1971.

The entire island is gung-ho about joining the United Nations, but they should have never quit in the first place.  Pretending to have the island represent all of China is one thing but quitting when things don’t go your way is another.  I really don’t care who made the move to quit the United Nations, but what is done is done.  The Taiwanese should just accept the situation and move on because everyone else did.

All these people in the island are doing is just wasting people’s time with unreal expectations and exaggerating the island’s relevance in the world.  If the United States doesn’t approve, then how in the hell would the rest of the world approve of a small island joining the United Nations?

China’s President Hu Jintao has warned that the plan could result in a “possibly dangerous period” for the region.

The United States has also warned that the move is unnecessarily provocative and could heighten tensions in the region.

Most UN members have diplomatic ties with China and would not want to anger Beijing by backing Taiwan’s UN application.

Reality bites; so expect Taiwan’s bid to fail miserable as usual regardless of what the results are for the election and whoever manages to win the election this time.

Taiwan Leader Riles China, U.S.

By PETER ENAV – 13 hours ago

HSINCHU, Taiwan (AP) — With a deafening roar, eight Mirage fighter jets shoot upward from the darkened runway at Taiwan’s Hsinchu Air Force Base, armed with a deadly array of missiles and a mission to knock out incoming Chinese warplanes.

It’s only a simulation, of course, but the tensions are always real, and lately have ratcheted up over an ambitious political gambit by Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian that has rattled both China and the U.S., Taiwan’s closest ally.

At issue is Chen’s plan for a public referendum next year on Taiwan seeking entry to the United Nations. Beijing views the referendum as a direct challenge to its claim that Taiwan is part of China.

No one expects war anytime soon, but Chen’s move worries U.S. officials enough that they have publicly criticized it. The United States is wary of getting dragged into a scrap between a democratic friend and its giant neighbor across the Taiwan Straits.

The United States should not worry because Taiwan will always do a great job provoking China as before.  Worse comes to worse a war erupts in the Taiwan Strait and all plans to invade Iran will be delayed.  Then again, the United States is expected to sacrifice lives to save Taiwan when it decides to finally provoke China into a war.

Chen’s initiative is a “mistake,” Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said last month. Seeming to support China’s view, he said the referendum would be “a step towards … a declaration of independence of Taiwan,” and urged Taiwanese authorities to “behave in a responsible manner.”

China hardly wants war either. That would cast a giant shadow over its economic leap forward and next summer’s Beijing Olympics. But ignoring Chen would give new impetus to Taiwanese independence — a prospect Beijing abhors.

I am glad the United States is smart enough to see Taiwan’s moves as irresponsible and a mistake because it’s bad for world business.  Why does Taiwan always want to ruin a good thing?

The controversy boils down to a name.

Taiwan has applied for U.N. membership before — more than a dozen times since it was expelled from the world body in 1971 when the China seat was transferred to Beijing. But except for a failed attempt this year, it always did so under its official name — the Republic of China.

That’s what Gen. Chiang Kai-shek called the island when he and his Nationalist forces fled there in 1949 as Mao Zedong’s Communists took control of China.

Mao and Chiang hated each other, but they agreed on one thing: There could only be one China. Chiang was no less vehement than the Communists in resisting any notion of an independent Taiwan. Many of those who laid the groundwork for Chen’s Democratic Progressive Party once served in prison for advocating independence.

Now Chen wants the electorate’s permission to apply for U.N. membership under the name Taiwan — a crucial difference because it implies a rejection of the “one China” concept.

The referendum would ask whether the territory should apply for U.N. membership as “Taiwan.” The Mainland Affairs Council, which implements Taiwan’s China policies, published a poll in August putting support at more than 70 percent.

Any name would be symbolic. The U.N. Security Council would have to approve Taiwan’s membership, and China has a veto.

Taiwan applying to the UN is not too different from a retard running into a brick wall: no matter how hard they try then will both end up getting seriously hurt.  But why would Taiwan do something so harmful to its own local interests?

The “aim is to provoke conflicts from the two sides, cheat Taiwanese people to get more votes and realize plans of Taiwan independence,” said Yang Yi, a spokesman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office.

Yang’s reference to votes reflects a widespread Taiwanese perception that Chen, although a longtime supporter of independence, is holding the referendum mainly because he thinks it’s a huge vote-getter.

The referendum is expected to take place during elections to choose Chen’s successor in March, and it puts the main opposition Nationalist Party in a bind — to oppose the measure and lose credibility, or support it and appear to be a DPP clone.

For the time being, Nationalist presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou has adopted a middle ground, supporting U.N. membership, but as the Republic of China.

Taiwan specialist Shelley Rigger of Davidson College in North Carolina said U.S. officials aren’t panicked, but they are concerned. She says many of them feel Chen cares more about the election than about preserving his relationship with the United States.

“The worry is that he will do things to rally his hard-line base — including deliberately provoking Beijing,” Rigger said in an e-mail interview. “I also think there is growing concern that Chen is trying to box in his successor, to force the next president to continue his policies.”

So there it is: Chen is only doing this UN referendum during an election year just to get votes for his party by spiting the Chinese at the expense of angering the United States.  I am so glad Chen Shuibian is smart enough to damage long-standing ties with the United States, reduce business influences in China, split the island just to divert attention from his own problems and to get a handful of votes with an obviously failed policy of applying to the UN as “Taiwan”.   Chen Shuibian is a narrow-mind in an open-world, which is a true reflection of Taiwan.

Demonstrators burn United States flag in Kaohsiung

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
TAIPEI, AFP

Dozens of protesters in Taiwan yesterday burned and trampled the Stars and Stripes outside the island’s U.S. mission, reports said, after a senior White House official said Taiwan was not a state.

A crowd chanting slogans set fire to the U.S. flag outside the mission in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan and unfurled protest banners, including one that read, “Oppose U.S. bullying of Taiwan,” television pictures showed.

Police then moved in to douse the flames but there were no reports of arrests or injuries from the incident.

Taiwan should not do anything rash like burning flags in front of American trade offices. Luckily no Americans were harmed by Taiwanese fanaticism as they were all home for Labor Day as these locals continue to fan anti-Americanism.

Just look at these pictures

I don’t think the United States appreciates the Taiwanese fanning anti-Americanism in that island. They have enough troubles in Iraq. Why can’t the Taiwanese support the troops like the Americans do? Why are they burning American flags like Al-Qaeda? Are they trying to imply something?

“We have our president and territory and we pay taxes to the government. Without doubt, Taiwan is a country, not what the United States said — that Taiwan is not a country,” an unnamed protester told reporters.

The protest came after White House official Dennis Wilder said last week that Taiwan was not a state and so could not become a member of the United Nations.

O. J. Simpson also says he is a loving father who is innocent of the double murder of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman. O. J. Simpson can say all he wants about his so-called innocence but at the end of the day he is guilty just like Taiwan is still not a country. Burning American flags isn’t going to help the radical Taiwanese’s cause.

On a related note, the radical Taiwanese protesters did the following while burning American flags:

The protesters chanted: “Taiwan nation! Taiwan nation! Taiwan nation!” In total, there were 12 demonstrators who were called to action by the local underground radio stations. The underground radio stations called out: “Surround the American Institute in Taiwan office! Come, come, come! See how the American flag gets stomped upon. Come, come come!” They were faced with more than 200 police officers armed with batons and handguns. Nevertheless, the protesters chanted: “Yes! Yes! Burn! Burn!”

Why are these Taiwanese acting like Al-Qaeda terrorists? Maybe they should consider having Al-Qaeda in Taiwan to maybe get the United States to recognize them if they want them to believe their lies so badly.

The island’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party wants to hold a referendum on U.N. membership next year. The party leans towards independence for the island from China, which claims Taiwan.

Wilder said the proposed referendum had unnecessarily increased regional tension.

“Membership in the United Nations requires statehood. Taiwan, or the Republic of China, is not at this point a state in the international community,” Wilder said.

I agree with Wilder because Taiwan has nothing to offer by trying to make another failed bid for a United Nations seat and because Taiwan is again not a country as explained by the world time and time again.

The U.N. General Assembly will discuss Taiwan’s membership application later this month. Its past efforts to rejoin have been repeatedly blocked by Beijing.

The island, under its official name the Republic of China, lost its U.N. seat to China in 1971.

That’s right: Taiwan trying for the UN is like a retard running into a brick wall. No matter how hard the retard and Taiwan try, they will only hurt themselves in the end.

Anger at Taiwan’s ‘heaviest pig’
Animal rights groups have expressed outrage at the force-feeding and sacrifice of the world’s heaviest pig in Taiwan.The obese pig was sacrificed as part of Taiwan’s annual Pig of God contest.

Animal activists filmed the pig’s slaughter, and the parading of its body, for its online video campaign.

The pig weighed more than 908kg (143 stone) after being force-fed sand and metal. It was unable to stand on its own feet and took 20 men to carry.

Force-feeding pigs until they weigh 908 kilograms with sand and metal to the point where it cannot walk? What kind of sick people would do such a cruel thing to pigs? Oh, right: it’s the Taiwanese of course.

After its slaughter on Saturday, in Hsin Chu, it was painted and paraded through the streets. The heaviest pig contest is part of the annual Pig of God festival, and hundreds of pigs are force-fed as farmers seek to increase their weight.

Leah Garces, WSPA International Programmes Director, called the contest “a grotesque freak show that ends in the public killing of animals”.

The competition is illegal in Taiwan, but activists say that authorities in Hsin Chu have been reluctant to enforce the ban, fearing a backlash from religious groups.

I can imagine this being cruel. After all they did make the pig eat just sand and metal until it was too painful for the poor animal to live. I am not surprised that this ritual in Taiwan is illegal, but I am surprised how the local police allow this to happen just because of some minor pressure groups. Show us how much rule of law is actually in Taiwan contrary to what we’re always told by the pro-Taiwan media.