Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council is using emergency measures to assist a Taiwanese national who has been detained in Hong Kong. The woman was part of an official Taiwanese delegation to visit the semiautonomous Chinese city last month for a travel expo.
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00:00Emergency measures are being used to help a Taiwanese tour operator arrested in Hong
00:05Kong in February.
00:08The woman, surnamed Chen, was part of an official Hualien County delegation visiting the city
00:12for a travel expo.
00:15Taiwan's government body that handles cross-strait affairs says she was arrested in connection
00:19with a 25-year-old money laundering case.
00:22They're questioning the timing of the arrest and calling for more explanation.
00:27In Hong Kong, there are no more official members of our tour operators.
00:31They are all employees of Hong Kong.
00:34So, of course, when dealing with similar cases,
00:39there will be a lot of restrictions.