SOCIETY
Couples eye 10/10 wedding
This year Double Ten National Day falls on a Monday, making it a long weekend, and household registration offices have reported that they have received applications from more than 100 couples who want to register their wedding on that day. Su Li-ching (蘇麗清), director of the Tsoying Household Registration Office in Greater Kaohsiung, said that to facilitate such couples, household registration offices would handle their applications for reservations until Oct. 7. Many couples have also expressed a wish to complete their registration at exactly 10:10am, making the memorable moment even more auspicious, she added. Meanwhile, Alishan National Scenic Area said it is inviting 16 couples to take part in a romantic wedding under a sacred tree cluster on the mountain. The couples can exchange their vows under the trees that are more than 1,000 years old on Oct. 31. Interested couples can register with the scenic area administration.
TRAVEL
Nanjing flights planned
Taitung County is planning to launch scheduled flights to Nanjing, China, on Nov. 2, Taitung County Commissioner Justin Huang (黃健庭) announced yesterday. One flight per week is expected to operate on the route, departing from Taitung Airport for Nanjing Lukou International Airport on Wednesdays and returning on Thursdays, Huang said. The service is expected to help attract tourists from eastern China to Taitung, he said. In related news, Eastday.com, a news portal in Shanghai, China, reported that more than 700 free independent tourists (FIT) from China have traveled to Taiwan via Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport since the FIT program was launched on June 28.
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