ENTERTAINMENT
Pop star finds love
Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter Wang Lee-hom (王力宏), who is normally closely guarded about his private life, announced on social networking sites yesterday that he has found the love of his life. “I’m lucky to have met a girl to hold hands with and share my future,” the 37-year-old star wrote on his Facebook and Sina Weibo (新浪微博) micro-blogging pages. “She’s not in the entertainment business so you don’t know her, but I also don’t want to create the opportunity for rumors so ... her name is Lee Jinglei. She’s 27 years old and a graduate student at Columbia,” he wrote. The four-time Golden Melody Award winner has been romantically linked to Taiwanese pop diva Chang Hui-mei (張惠妹), also known as A-mei (阿妹). However, there have also been rumors that Wang is gay, and he was said to have had a relationship with Chinese pianist Yundi Li (李雲迪), speculation that Wang denied earlier this year.
WEATHER
Low air quality forecast
The nation could experience low air quality through today as a cold air mass brings pollutants from China on strong northeasterly winds. Taipei’s Department of Environmental Protection advised children, the elderly and people with respiratory diseases to stay indoors. Taipei began to see the impact of the pollution on Monday afternoon. Data from the city’s environmental department, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) and the Environmental Protection Administration indicate that the low air quality could persist through today. The latest information about air quality can be found on the Environmental Protection Administration Web site at www.epa.gov.tw. In related news, the CWB predicated that temperatures are expected to dip to as low as 10oC in some areas of central and northern Taiwan tomorrow and on Saturday.
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