■ ENVIRONMENT
Kaohsiung overhauled
Kaohsiung City is undergoing an overhaul, including an environmental cleanup and a renewal of facilities, in anticipation of the approaching World Games, city officials said yesterday. With just 13 days until the opening ceremony for the July 16 to July 26 international sports event, the city’s Environment Protection Bureau expressed hope that the city would make an excellent impression on the foreign athletes and visitors who will soon arrive. “We have carried out several measures to strengthen our citizens’ concepts of garbage classification to reduce the amount of garbage. This includes a garbage classification system, a comprehensive garbage recycling and reuse program and a drive for people to hand in their mercury thermometers for recycling,” said Liu Chun-yi (劉俊一), the bureau’s deputy director. Last year, the city’s entire garbage volume was reduced to 580,000 tonnes, compared with the previous year’s 620,000 tonnes.
■ HEALTH
Doctor receives warning
Taipei City’s Wanfang Hospital gave an oral warning to a doctor after he was accused of giving out pro-independence information to patients. Taipei County Councilor Lin Kuo-chun (林國春) said the doctor, Chen Tsai-you (陳才友), gave his patients a flier which included details of the contents of the Cairo Declaration and slogans such as “Taiwan is not the Republic of China” and “Changing the national title will ensure your safety” in addition to prescriptions. A patient had complained that a doctor should not promote his political views, Lin said. In response, Chen said he only gave the flier to a patient after the patient told him: “Taiwan is not a country.” “I gave the information to him only because he asked [for it],” Chen said.
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