National Security Bureau (NSB) Director-General Hsueh Shih-ming (
NSB Public Affairs Advisor Liu Yen-wei (
The report said Hsueh left for Seattle on Saturday. He will make arrangements for Chen's visit with US officials, meet the bureau's staff working in the US and then fly to Latin America.
The report said Chen's plane will stopover in the US and that Chen would like to visit his son Chen Chih-chung (
The report said that ships from the Taiwanese navy are slated to arrive in the Marshall Islands and Kiribati late next month as part of a global tour, and that Chen will invite government officials to board the ships when he visits those countries.
According to the report, high-ranking officials including navy chief general Chen Pan-chih (陳邦治) will board the ships with Chen. It would be the first time that Taiwan's president has boarded the navy's ships outside the country.
The fleet's voyage will also mark the first time that Taiwanese naval vessels have crossed the three major oceans of the world: the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic. The ships will travel over 55,560km during their 101-day voyage.
The fleet will visit seven countries maintaining diplomatic ties with Taiwan -- Senegal, Gambia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Panama, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati and Palau.
Meanwhile, a delegation of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators left for Washington on Saturday to visit members of the US Congressional Taiwan Caucus. According to the report, the legislators will try to get pro-Taiwan senators and representatives to welcome Chen when he stops at a US airport.
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