Yazhou Zhoukan
In 1996, he was Taiwan bureau chief of the Hong Kong-based magazine "Yazhou Zhoukan". Teaming with reporter Ying Chan, he co-wrote an article on 25 October reporting that Liu Tai-ying, the business manager of Taiwan's Kuomintang political party, had offered $15 million to US President Bill Clinton's re-election campaign. The article also printed a denial from Liu that he had offered the money. Liu went on to file a criminal libel suit against the pair on 7 November. Chen Chao-ping, a political consultant named as the source of the story, was added as a co-defendant. Liu also filed a civil suit for $15 million in damages. "Yazhou Zhoukan" defended its reporters and refused to settle the suit outside of court.