John Wu (吳志揚) is the son of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Vice Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (
With Wu doing moderately well in district polls, it seems likely that he will be entering the legislature next year. Despite the fact that his political career seems off to a good start, the well-mannered lawyer told the Taipei Times Friday that he originally had no plans to enter politics.
"Many people have said that because I'm from a political family, I was destined to enter politics. The truth however, is that my dad is the only politician in the family. When I told him I wanted to run for the legislature, he was worried for me," Wu said. His famous father, Wu said, told him that politics is a complex business. "My father warned me, if I'm afraid of the heat, not to enter the kitchen. In reply, I told him that the kitchen shouldn't be so hot; I want to change the conditions of the kitchen," Wu said. The statement is reflective of Wu's motivation to run for office.
"The legislature needs more reasonable voices to create legislation," Wu said, pointing out that only about 10 percent of the current legislature can claim a legal background. To groom himself for office, Wu has been spent the past couple years taking up positions in the Taoyuan County government, such as serving as a member of Taoyuan's Child and Youth Social Benefits Committee and pm the administrative appeals commission.
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