Taiwan’s Olympic team won an award even before the start of the London Olympics, as the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC) placed among the top three donors to the “Giving is Winning” campaign organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
At a ceremony in the Athletes Village in London yesterday, IOC president Jacques Rogge presented Olympic Shield Awards to representatives of the top donors, including the Olympic committees of Taipei, Britain and Qatar, for their contributions to the campaign.
CTOC president Thomas Tsai (蔡辰威) and women’s badminton player Cheng Wen-hsing (程文欣) accepted the award on behalf of the Taiwanese delegation and made the first donation to the second phase of the collection of sports and casual clothes, which will be donated to refugees and displaced people in UN High Commissioner for Refugee camps in various parts of the world.
Between January and May this year, the CTOC, in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, collected more than 7,900 items of sportswear and sent them to Pakistan, where the IOC is distributing them to people displaced by natural disasters and armed conflict so that they can find some relief from their hardship through sporting activities.
The idea of an “Olympic truce” has been an important aspect of the Olympic Games ever since they originated in ancient Greece and a Truce Wall has been set up in the Athletes Village in London to encourage warring parties to lay down their arms, at least for the length of the games.
At yesterday’s ceremony, Rogge was the first to sign his name on the Truce Wall, and Tsai and CTOC vice president Lin Hong-dow (林鴻道) signed it on behalf of the Taiwanese delegation.
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:
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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