Death of trade officer under investigationBULLYING? Cho yesterday said that a third-party investigator had been hired to look into the workplace bullying claims and would submit a full report within two months. News of Yen Huai-shing’s death from an unspecified illness on March 12 was made public on Tuesday last week, after her funeral, at her family’s request. The daughter of former minister of finance Yen Ching-chang (顏慶章), Yen Huai-shing headed the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research’s Taiwan WTO and RTA Center before being appointed as deputy head of the Executive Yuan’s Office of Trade Negotiations in 2024. However, since her death, rumors have circulated online that she was a victim of workplace bullying and was “excluded” by colleagues at the trade office.

Source: Taipei Times March 31, 2026 20:15 UTC