Taipei City Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (
However, he stayed at the meeting for only 30 minutes before heading off to attend the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) weekly Central Standing Committee meeting.
In response to Ma's appearance at yesterday's Cabinet meeting, Cabinet Spokesman Chen Chi-mai (
Guai Guai, or "obedient" in English, is a snack popular among children.
Although Chen said that he knew it was hard for Ma to decide between the Cabinet meeting and the KMT's Central Standing Committee meeting, he personally thought that the Cabinet meeting was more important.
When Ma missed the new Cabinet's first weekly meeting to attend a flood control drill held by the city government, Chen said that the Cabinet would "make the best tea and wait for Mayor Ma to attend next week's meeting." Ma denied that his absence from the meeting had anything to do with the KMT-People First Party (PFP) alliance's refusal to recognize the legitimacy of the Chen Shui-bian administration.
Ma was absent from the meeting last week to attend an "important city affair." Chen yesterday reiterated that the Cabinet meeting was a good platform for the Taipei City Government to communicate with the central government and that Ma should not give up this opportunity to improve relations.
"It does not help to solve existing problems between the central government and the city government if Ma is absent from meetings or makes non-constructive comments outside the meeting," Chen said.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching