Taiwan firm with mainland China offices fires nephew of minister on Beijing sanctions list

A Taiwanese company with mainland China subsidiaries has fired the nephew of Taiwan’s interior minister, Liu Shyh-fang, whom Beijing blames for Taipei’s hostile cross-strait policies. In a statement issued on Wednesday night, a Jiangxi-province-based subsidiary of Taiwan’s Long Time Technology Co. Ltd said Yen Wen-chun had been dismissed from all positions at the firm and its mainland units, effective April 7. Yen is a nephew of Liu, who is on Beijing’s sanctions list for allegedly undermining...