Aside from alleged cases of trumped up domestic abuse, there are also examples of happy transnational marriages, as demonstrated by the marriages of foreign brides Hu Yufeng (胡玉鳳) and Lee Cuiheng (李翠姮).
Born in rural Vietnam, Lee was introduced to Chang Tan-ching (張淡清) in 2003. When she first married Chang, he was working in a sand and gravel depot, which was dangerous work with long hours. The couple had to also share the agricultural work at home, which made their lives hard and work-oriented.
According to Chang, Lee was very sweet and understanding, staying by his side no matter what. After Chang quit his work at the depot, the two began to concentrate on planting Sanhsin scallions (三星蔥). At first the couple met with failure because they didn’t know enough about how to plant the crop, but after refining the technique and some research, the couple has been rewarded with a gradual increase in yield.
“I really have to thank her,” Chang said with a smile.
Mastering the differences between language and culture, Lee has not only broken through the barrier and fully integrated into the Chang family life, the Changs are very satisfied with their daughter-in-law.
After successfully acquiring her residence permit last year, the Changs expect that she will be able to get her Republic of China (ROC) ID card before long, and Lee’s actions and speech certainly couldn’t hide the joy she feels at the prospect.
Hu also came from Vietnam.
Married 15 years ago to her husband, surnamed Lee (李), who has a physical disability, Hu began helping her husband the day she got married.
Helping him move merchandise and talk to customers, she -managed the household finances in surroundings that were completely alien to her, and also learned how to carve stamps. Her success has taken some of Lee’s neighbors and family by surprise.
Having acquired her ROC ID card in 2001, Hu has not only not left her husband, but has also exerted herself to learn Chinese. She successfully passed her -elementary-school education exam, and is currently studying on her own course materials offered by National Open University.
“I try to teach the children, through action and words, that new immigrants have their own future,” Hu said.
Hu’s hard-working and exemplary behavior have earned her the “Extraordinary Female” prize from the Taitung Women’s Association, as well as the first exemplary foreign spouse family award from the Taitung County Family Birth and Education Center.
Translated by Jake Chung, Staff Writer
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