California remains the top choice for Taiwanese students studying in the US, statistics released yesterday by the Bureau of International Cultural and Educational Relations showed.
The figures showed that 6,333 Taiwanese students studied in California last year, accounting for 6.8 percent of the international student population in the Golden State, up from 5,776 in 2008.
New York State was the second-favorite destination, with 3,223 Taiwanese students enrolled on courses last year, up from 2,527 in 2008, comprising 4.3 percent of the international student population in the state.
Texas occupied third place with 2,270 Taiwanese last year, up from 1,853 in 2008, the data showed.
Illinois was in fourth position, the number of students from Taiwan rising from 1,284 in 2008 to 1,316 last year.
Washington State beat Pennsylvania by climbing from sixth to fifth place with a slight increase in enrolment, while the number of Taiwanese studying in Pennsylvania dropped by 148 to 1,074 last year.
Michigan made a significant leap from 14th place in 2008 to eighth place in the rankings, with the number of Taiwanese students studying there up 526 from last year.
Maryland also jumped from 21st place in 2008 to eleventh place last year, with the number of Taiwanese attending school in the state rising by 256 to 526.
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
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
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