A charity is urging families to make elderly relatives wear a “bracelet of love” containing ID and contact information to prevent them from getting lost.
At a press conference in Taipei yesterday, the Federation for the Welfare of the Elderly said that about 4,200 families had been reunited because elderly relatives had been wearing the bracelet.
Chen Ching-tung’s (陳慶東) 83-year-old mother Chen Yang-yeh (陳揚葉) went missing on Nov. 12 last year.
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Chen’s parents were accustomed to take a walk together at 6:30am every morning and after their usual walk, Chen Ching-tung’s father stayed at home to read the newspapers, while his mother left the house for a second walk, never to return.
Chen Ching-tung said his father no longer reads the newspaper because he believes his wife would nor have gone missing would if he had accompanied her the second time.
He added that his father seldom leaves the house because he cannot bear neighbors asking him whether he has found his wife.
Wu Pei-shan’s (吳佩珊) 69-year-old father Wu Chiu-nan (吳秋男) went missing after he went out cycling in Taipei’s Shilin District (士林) early on the morning of Aug. 11. Her father loved cycling and had previously biked from Taipei to Changhua.
“We thought he wanted to have some fun. How did we know he would be gone?” she said, adding that the family tried everything they could to find him, including seeking surveillance camera footage, posting missing person posters, spreading the message through the Internet and asking for help from social welfare agencies.
Tu Ping-hao’s (杜秉豪) 77-year-old mother, Chang Chiao-er (張嬌娥), from Chiayi County’s Chungpu Township (中埔) went missing on Oct. 9.
Tu said he had found it difficult to obtain government-held information and that the local bureau of National Health Insurance would not tell him whether his mother had visited any hospital since she disappeared, citing privacy issues.
The federation urged the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health and Welfare to collaborate and enable family members to access missing person’s medical records.
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