LOTTERY
Drumsticks hit the jackpot
The winner of the NT$10 million (US$340,000) special prize on the Uniform Invoice Lottery had only spent NT$83 on frozen drumsticks. The winning number for the latest draw of the bimonthly receipt lottery was announced on Sunday for January and last month. The shopper in Beitun District (北屯), Greater Taichung, who purchased a box of four frozen drumsticks from a nearby Taiwan Fresh Supermarket store, was one of the lucky few that have won the special prize, said Lin Chia-hung (林嘉宏), manager of the store. Lin said the winner was most likely buying ingredients for dinner, given the time of the purchase. Another lucky customer at the shop who spent NT$90 on two tubes of toothpaste won the NT$10,000 prize, Lin added.
DIPLOMACY
Yuan to stay in Washington
The government currently has no plan to replace the country’s representative to the US, Jason Yuan (袁健生), as ties between Taipei and Washington are the best they have been in 30 years, Minister of Foreign Affairs Timothy Yang (楊進添) said yesterday. During a meeting of the legislature’s Diplomacy and National Defense Committee, Yang denied a newspaper report saying that none of the candidates to replace Yuan — National Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General Hu Wei-jen (胡為真), former NSC head Su Chi (蘇起) and NSC Deputy Secretary-General Liu Chih-kung (劉志攻) — were acceptable to the US government. “The report was invented out of nothing and it is groundless. It is wrong. You should ask the paper that published the story where it came from,” Yang said in response to a question from Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Ting-fei (陳亭妃).
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