EVENTS
TES plans Summer Fair
The annual Taipei European School (TES) Summer Fair will open on May 30, the school said. The event will feature a flea market, a second-hand book sale, food and drinks and game booths for children, it said. The fair will be held at the TES Swire Campus in Shilin District (士林), Taipei City, from 11am to 3pm. Those interested in booking a table to sell second-hand goods can contact Rebecca Earnshaw at 0972-105-984 or send an e-mail to tbspta@gmail.com.
EVENTS
Community Choir to perform
The International Community Choir will present its Cabaret Concert 2009 on May 17 at Mother of God Church in Tianmu, Taipei City. The choir will perform selected pieces from Cabaret and Camelot. The repertoire will also include a special guest performance from students of the Taipei American School (TAS). The ticket price is NT$300 and all proceeds will go to St Anne’s Home for children with special needs, the event’s organizer said. Seating is limited and tickets will be available for sale beginning today at both TAS and the Taipei European School. For more information, contact Siew Kang at (02) 2533-4247 or internationalchoir@gmail.com.
CRIME
Warning for foreign spouses
Wang Shih-chih (王世智) of Tainan County’s Mude Care Association, which has long helped foreign spouses, said the naturalization of foreign spouses and obtaining an ID card are complex processes and warned applicants not to believe anyone who promises to speed up the paperwork, cut costs or bypass regulations. Wang gave the warning after a recent case in which a Vietnamese immigrant surnamed Ruan, who is married to a Taiwanese man in Tainan County’s Dongshan Township (東山), tried to obtain a Taiwanese ID card without her husband’s knowledge with the help of a third party. Ruan was told that proof of studying in Taiwan was not required to complete the procedure. After Ruan gave the middleman her passport and NT$20,000, the person disappeared. Wang said that although many applicants use an intermediary to handle applications, some believe that handing over a “red envelope” (紅包) can shorten the process, and this puts them at the mercy of unscrupulous people. For more information, call the Mude Care Association at (06) 698-9789.
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