■EDUCATION
NTU’s Lee back on the job
National Taiwan University president Lee Si-chen (李嗣涔) returned to work yesterday after suffering a minor stroke. Lee was welcomed by teachers and students of the university as he walked into his office. He was rushed to the National Taiwan University Hospital on July 13. Lee, who was scheduled to discuss academic exchanges with Zhou Qifeng (周其鳳), president of Beijing University, was diagnosed as having suffered a minor stroke. Lee said his busy schedule could have caused the stroke and urged teachers to pay attention to their health.
■SOCIETY
IWAT holds coffee matinee
The International Women’s Association in Taichung (IWAT) welcomes members and non-members to join its monthly coffee morning on Aug. 26 from 10am to12pm. All those who are interested are asked to bring a dish to share. Established in 1984, IWAT is a non-profit, volunteer organization that meets on a regular basis to assist local charities, provide community services and share information about Taichung with its members. To RSVP and for directions, call Lesley at 0955-418-046.
■EVENTS
Food festival announced
The British Trade & Cultural Office will hold its “2009 British Food Festival” with City Super supermarket from Aug. 22 through Sept. 4 to introduce new British food and drinks products to Taiwanese customers. More than 100 new products imported from the UK, including drinks, sauce, tea, biscuits and chocolate with selective flavor, will be offered, the office said. The food festival will be presented in three locations of City Super supermarket, SOGO BR4, the Mall and Tianmu Sogo Department Store.
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