SCHOOL:
Teens Unplugged to answer questions about studying abroad
High school seniors from the international community who are interested in studying abroad are invited to participate in the Teens Unplugged event to be held on April 25, in which recent graduates from US universities discuss their lives as students in the US. The event also gives teenagers an opportunity to talk with US college graduates and ask questions about college life. This free event, to be held at 1F, 16, Lane 118, Zhongcheng Rd Sec 2, is co-sponsored by Impact Youth Center, the Community Services Center and Taipei International Church. To register, send an e-mail to teensunplugged@gmail.com or call the Community Services Center.
WORK:
Kaohsiung pledges to cut foreign workers
The Kaohsiung City Government pledged on Thursday to cut back on the number of foreign workers in the city to save jobs for locals, saying that the city’s unemployment rate is estimated to have climbed past the national 5.75 percent average to break the 6 percent mark. Kaohsiung City Director of Labor Affairs Chung Kung-chao (鍾孔炤) made the statement after Kaohsiung City Councilor Lin Kuo-cheng (林國正) expressed concern over rising unemployment in the southern Taiwan port city. Quoting statistics from the Council of Labor Affairs and the city’s Bureau of Labor Affairs, Lin said the average national effective employment rate among people seeking jobs was 38 percent last year, while in Kaohsiung the figure was only 27 percent. In February, the effective employment rate among job seekers in Kaohsiung fell to 10 percent, also much lower than the national average of 22 percent for that month, he said. The figures show that there are fewer work opportunities in Kaohsiung than in the northern part of country, Lin said, urging the city bureau to take measures to protect the employment rights of local citizens.
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