#MeToo wave sweeps Taiwan in long-awaited reckoning


TAIPEI (AFP): Whistle-blower Chen Chien-jou has watched with mixed emotions as Taiwan's #MeToo movement swept from politics and academia to the entertainment world after her account of harassment and subsequent victim-blaming went viral.

The 22-year-old former campaign worker wrote in a Facebook post in late May about being groped during a car ride by a TV director hired by her then-employer, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), for a project last year.

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