President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) yesterday visited the wife of Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (胡志強) who has been gradually recovering after emerging from an 18-day coma since a car crash on Nov. 18.
It marked the second time Chen had visited Shaw Hsiao-ling (
Chen shook hands with Shaw at her sickbed in China Medical University Hospital (CMUH) in Taichung, and said she was doing well.
Shaw responded with "How are you, Mr President" and thanked him for taking the trouble to visit her, hospital vice president Cheng Lung-pin (
Cheng said that, Shaw, who was transferred to CMUH from Chi Mei Medical Center in Tainan County three weeks ago, could now take a few steps on her own and was able to eat a few slices of sashimi on New Year's eve.
Hu, who was only slightly injured in the accident, and his wife were returning from a vote stumping trip to Kaohsiung when their minivan was hit by another vehicle that was trying to overtake Hu's van on the hard shoulder.
In two separate procedures doctors at the Liuying branch of Chi Mei Medical Center removed Shaw's ruptured spleen and amputated her left forearm.
Her heart stopped beating twice during the first operation and cardiac message had to be applied to revive her. She lost a large amount of blood and needed a transfusion.
Shaw had acute breathing difficulty after the two operations and doctors were worried that she might suffer multiple organ failure.
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:
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