Taiwan independence activists yesterday said they had yet to see President Chen Shui-bian (
"During his speech on Jan. 1, 2006, the President urged us not to put all our eggs in one basket and said that the government would carry out an `active management' policy," said former national policy adviser Huang Tien-lin (黃天麟).
"It has been a year," Huang said. "I did not see any government policies that concern this `active management' promise."
Huang made the remarks at a press conference held to address concerns about the issue.
A number of activists and professors also express their discomfort about the government's recent announcement allowing the deployment of 0.18-micron processing technology in China.
"What worries me is not the production of the chip itself. What worries me is that more and more chipmakers will relocate to China in the future," said Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Wang To-far (王塗發).
Wang said he was worried that more chipmakers would be encouraged to relocate to China and eventually, that these chipmakers would compete with their counterparts who decided to stay in Taiwan.
Wang expressed discontent with government plans to allow direct currency exchange between the Chinese yuan and NT dollar in Taiwan.
"Issuing its own currency reflects a country's sovereignty," Wang said. "I do not think we should give in on the issue when they [the Chinese government] still do not treat us as an independent country."
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