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...Taiwan and mainland China--are interested in: peace. But peace cannot be achieved without mutual respect in this age of globalization. It is hard to shake hands with a fist. Instead of resorting to intimidation, Beijing should emulate the changes that have transformed Taiwan's society. CHUNG GING-LIN Taipei...
...victim had had passive anal sex shortly before his death. A fingerprint check came up with his identity, as it would for most males in Taiwan, who are printed before the island-state's two-year manadatory military service: Lin Chih-hao, a 20-year-old accounting student at Taipei University who lived with his parents. Classmates described Lin as a perfectionist...
That discovery last month made the Suitcase Murder one of Taiwan's juiciest crime stories, and it's only gotten raunchier since. The case landed on the desk of Taipei detective Shih Yi-ting, of the force's two-year-old Cybercrime Squad. Shih began by looking at Lin's computer and studying the records of his Internet provider. She discovered that on the night of his death, Feb. 3, Lin had been on line for 57 minutes starting around 6:00 p.m. The provider also revealed that Lin had visited a gay website and had entered a chat room...
Going to the website's logs, Shih discovered a conversation on the night of the death between two people using the handles Sadistic Dog and Come Out To Play Now. The two cyberpals agreed to meet at a bank across from the Taipei Railway Station. Police had already found Lin's discarded backpack in a trashbin near the station. Inside was a bus ticket confirming that the student traveled to the station at 7:32 that evening. Breakthrough: the victim was linked to the chat room...
Shih then tracked down the Internet account used by Sadistic Dog. This led her to a Taipei resident named Chen, who disclosed that his former lover occasionally used his account. A month to the day after the suitcase appeared, detectives arrested Liao Chien-kai, an unemployed 25-year-old. After 20 hours of questioning, Liao admitted he had met Lin in the chatroom and arranged to get together for rough sex, though Lin had stated on line that he had "no experience" of such activities. They met at the bank and from there returned to Liao's apartment...