The Kaohsiung City Government is promoting a “One Dollar Go” campaign to encourage residents and their overseas friends to visit a local night market.
For the price of NT$1, visitors will have an opportunity tomorrow to sample traditional dishes on offer at the Jhongsiao night market located between Cingnian Road and the Lingya Road, said Ho Yi-lun (何宜綸), head of the city government’s Research, Development and Evaluation Commission.
However, the preferential treatment will be offered only to those from overseas, or locals visiting the night market with at least one friend from overseas, Ho said. Only food stands certified as English service providers will participate in the promotion.
The campaign is part of the “2009 English Service Festival,” organized by the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission to encourage private business operators to offer more English-language services.
Ho said the Kaohsiung City Government had invested about NT$10 million over the past three years to help local food vendors produce English menus and provide English content on their Web sites.
The money is also being used to fund English conversation courses for business operators, he said.
About 20 street stand operators at the Jhongsiao night market have already completed the training and have been certified as English service providers, Ho said.
Members of the public can obtain coupons for the promotional offers by signing up at the Web site es.ffunlab.com. The Web site is in Chinese only.
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