TV Celebrities Caught Using Ecstasy at TeXound

Source: Taipei Bar Wild Night with Actress Anya: Wu Yung-kang Arrested on Drug Charges
From: Apple Daily
Date: 2002-06-09 · Author: Tsai Ju-yu & Huang Wen-cheng

In April 2001, after Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou announced that “narcotics performance evaluation” should be incorporated as a priority in the “Spring Security” anti-crime initiative — with “crime prevention, improved public safety, and greater satisfaction” as its guiding principles — Taipei police launched several major operations to sweep nightclubs alleged to be “rife with pill-popping.” When Hong Kong singer Wu Yung-kang and actress Anya were arrested for drug use at TeXound (nicknamed by clubbers “Taike High”) on 8 June 2002, Taipei’s nightclubs went into a state of high alert. The social incident, amplified by media sensationalism, further cemented in the public mind the association between “taike clubs” and “pill clubs.” To aggressively clear this stigma, Taipei City mounted intensive raids on nightclubs, sweeping drug dealers and clubbers out of Taipei proper and into a handful of large dance venues in the surrounding Taoyuan–Hsinchu area.

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• The Dance Politics of Taike Clubs (Hsieh Chih-wei)
• Famous Taipei “Pill Club” Raided by Police (People’s Daily Online)
• Ecstasy Found — Anya and Wu Yung-kang Arrested (Epoch Times)
• Taipei’s “Ten Most Famous Pill Clubs”: Young People Converge for Nightly Abandon (Southern Network)