Vice President Annette Lu (
"It is a serious breach of national security," she said. "Security measures to protect the president and vice president must be strengthened and national security agencies should bear the greatest responsibility."
Lu made the remarks yesterday when inspecting the Tatan Power Plant in Guanyin Township (
Lu served as Taoyuan County commissioner from 1997 to 2000, when she was elected to her current position.
Lu's remark was made in response to media inquiries about a 44-year-old man, Chang Han-ming (
Chang was detained on Saturday on charges of endangering public safety.
The incident aroused concerns because of the presidential guards' failure to stop or pursue the shooter in time.
Meanwhile, Lu yesterday invited political leaders to sit down and listen to the voices of the people through a "blue sky, green land, good Taiwan" alliance that she is scheduled to initiate this week.
"I hope leaders of the ruling and opposition parties will work together and engage in more rational discussions and healthier competition," she said.
"The ruling party must also reflect on its behavior, conduct reform and build a cleaner and more efficient administration," she added.
Lu said that the alliance would host a forum on how the government can perform its functions optimally, and achieve national security and social stability, as well as peace of mind.
The alliance would also address issues such as eliminating corruption, improving law and order, moral standards, life-long education and educational reform, the enhancement of industrial development, Taiwan's investment environment and the internationalization of Taiwan, she 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