Panic-spreading Taiwan "doomsday prophet" is fined...

A Taiwan court on Thursday fined a doomsday prophet who caused panic across the island by predicting a catastrophic earthquake.

The Nantou District Court slapped a 40,000-Taiwan dollar (1,300-dollar) penalty on Wang Chao-hung on charges of spreading rumours and creating social disorder.

Since November last year, Wang has warned on his blog and in press interviews that Taiwan would be hit by a devastating quake at precisely 1042 am (0242 GMT) on May 11. He said the tremor would have triggered a 170-metre-tall tsunami wave.

Struck by panic, an elderly man reportedly died after leaping from his fifth-storey home in Taipei before the earthquake was supposed to strike.

Wang later said he had been joking and had not intended to cause any harm. Source...

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