Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/25
By: Huang Li-yun, Ku Chuan, Wang Cheng-chung, Liu Kuan-ting, 
Elaine Hou and Kuan-lin Liu 

Taipei, April 25 (CNA) Police arrested 63 people in Taipei on Wednesday for disorderly conduct during a protest against the government’s planned military pension reform.

The protesters from the veterans group “800 Warriors” had gathered peacefully in the morning outside the Legislature while the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee was holding a public hearing on the reform proposal.

Around 3 p.m., however, clashes with police in the area erupted as the protesters tried to tear down the police barricade to enter the Legislature building.

Some protesters threw bottles, plastic chairs, sticks, stones and smoke bombs, which resulted in injury to 32 police officers and 11 reporters, according to information released by Cabinet spokesman Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇).    [FULL  STORY]