Li Hung-chou (
In addition to being able to read braille, she is also taking classes at a continuing education center. She has also learned to write braille, and is actively involved in producing audio books.
Chou was chosen as one of last year's best volunteers by the city's Bureau of Social Affairs. Among the nine award winners, she was the least educated, but both her spirit and her drive to learn made her stand out as an exceptional role model.
Sex, lies and sterility
A man who is reportedly sterile yesterday accused an obstetrician at the Veterans' General Hospital in Taipei of malpractice for lying about his condition and using artificial insemination to impregnate the man's ex-wife with another man's sperm. As a result, he says, he is the father of someone else's child.
Wearing a large hat and sporting dark sunglasses, the man, identified only as Mr X, held a press conference yesterday to condemn the medical practices, and ethics, of Tu Lai-nan (
Mr X said that he and his wife went to Tu to treat his sterility in 1992, and that his wife delivered a baby girl in 1995.
However, when Mr X recently divorced his wife, he was told that he was not his four-year-old daughter's biological father.
"Male sterility is said to be a shame in Chinese culture," Mr X said, explaining to reporters that he was instructed by the doctor not to tell anyone about the case.
During the press conference, Mr X said he wants the truth to come out, so that he can know who the real father is.
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