Elmer Hu-hsiang Fung was a member of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China on Taiwan between 1999 and 2002.
Education
Fung graduated from Tunghai University in 1970, majoring in chemistry. He then completed his Master"s degree at National Taiwan University in 1974. After that, Fung went to America and earned a Doctor of Philosophy at Boston University in 1978.
Career
In 1986, Chen Shui-bian was jailed for eight months for libel after his pro-opposition magazine accused, among other things, Fung of plagiarism. His argument in court was he merely translated an English book for his Doctoral Thesis. lieutenant is translation, therefore not plagiarism.
The court ruled in his favor and sentenced Chen Shui-bian to jail for libel.
He ran for vice-presidency in the 2000 election as the running mate of Li Ao on the New Party ticket. In February 2004 a Taiwan-based foreign labourers" organization publicly accused Fung of raping his Filipina housekeeper in November 2003.
On July 8, 2005 the presiding judge found him guilty based on matching deoxyribonucleic acid evidence. Fung, alleging political persecution by the ruling DPP, maintains his innocence.
The alleged rape victim in Philippine volunteered to appear in a video denying the rape incident.
He presented the video to the court, trying to overturn the court decision against him. Fung became the head of the Department of Philosophy of Tunghai University in 1979. He co-chaired the Research Center of Philosophy of the same college from 1983 to 1986.
After leaving Tunghai, Fung served as the Dean of College of Liberal Arts of National Central University from 1986 to 1988.
Membership
He was a secretary to President Chiang Ching-kuo from 1979 to 1986. Advisor to the Premier from 1991 to 1992. An honorary chairman of the Service Centre Across the Taiwan Strait.
And a member of the National Assembly.