EMPLOYMENT
Taipei Zoo looking for staff
Taipei Zoo is looking for two temporary workers to help out with matters related to its star animal, panda cub Yuan Zai (圓仔). The temporary staff are needed to help share the heavy workload largely caused by public enthusiasm over Yuan Zai, said Chang Chih-hua (張志華), a secretary at the zoo, adding that at the same time workers are preparing for the zoo’s centennial anniversary later this year. The two new workers would be responsible for publicity and planning panda-related projects and events. Hopefuls should have a master’s degree or a bachelor’s degree with professional training in the leisure industry or two years of work experience. There is also a position looking after injured or unwell visitors and handling paperwork. Applicants must have two or more years of nursing experience and be able to speak Mandarin and Taiwanese. All three positions have a monthly salary of NT$37,514. Applications are being accepted until Tuesday next week.
BUSINESS
NDC eyes overseas talent
The government is working on a plan to establish an employment-based immigration system to attract foreign professionals, in an effort to address a shortage of professionals and skilled workers in the domestic job market, National Development Council (NDC) Minister Kuan Chung-ming (管中閔) said yesterday. The plan, to be handed to Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺), focuses on making working in Taiwan more attractive to foreign talent, Kuan said. It is the responsibility of the government to create a favorable business and investment environment, Kuan said, but added that bringing in talent is not only the government’s job, but also that of the business sector. Jiang has urged government agencies to cooperate with the NDC to achieve the goal.
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