Other measures include increased monitoring of vessels crossing the Taiwan Strait and 24-hour surveillance of the 80 easiest locations for smugglers to come ashore. Premier Yu Shyi-kun expressed deep distress at the women's being thrown into the sea. He emphasized that Taiwan is a country founded on human rights, and that continued occurrences of this kind of cannot be tolerated.
行政院長游錫 & # 22531 ; 針對偷渡女子落海事件深表痛心，強調我國以人權立國，決不容許類似事件再度發生。