Suao Port (蘇澳港) welcomed its first group of Chinese tourists yesterday as visitors from Zhejiang Province arrived after an 11-hour voyage.
Wang Kun-chi (王坤池), director of Suao Port, said the 335 visitors were from the Taizhou Port Agricultural Exchange Group in Zhejiang. They arrived on the Taiwanese passenger ship Oceanlala, which left Taizhou Port at 7am and arrived late yesterday.
“They will be here for an eight-day trip and attend the opening ceremony of the Ilan International Rain Festival (宜蘭蘭雨節) on Saturday,” Wang said.
“They will also be visiting some of the country’s most popular tourist attractions like Taipei 101 before they leave from Keelung on Tuesday,” he said.
The Ilan County Government has arranged festive events to greet the Chinese tourists, while officials from the Customs Office, the National Immigration Agency and the Centers for Disease Control inspected their ID documents and luggage at Suao Port.
Though the port was opened to cross-strait sea transportation last year, only two cargo liners have docked at the port. The Oceanlala was the first passenger ship to use the port.
One of the Navy’s Kidd-class destroyers is stationed at Suao, but Keelung Harbor Bureau Deputy Director General Chen Fu-nan (陳福男) said Chinese tourists would not be able to take pictures of the vessel because it is docked too far from where the passenger ship disembarks.
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