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Kim Soo-hyun to visit
South Korean actor-singer Kim Soo-hyun is to visit Taiwan next month to meet his fans, according to the local organizer of the event. Kim is to hold his meet-and-greet at the Taipei International Convention Center on March 22, entertainment company Mugeng said. The 25-year-old is known for his roles in popular South Korean television dramas such as My Love From the Star and Moon Embracing the Sun. The Asian tour is scheduled to take Kim to eight cities in six countries, which also include China, Japan, Singapore and Thailand, according to the star’s management company, Keyeast Co, and ticketing information for the Taipei event is to be announced soon. Meanwhile, other entertainers from South Korea are expected to visit Taipei later this month. South Korean girl group Secret and pop-rock band FTISLAND are to perform in Taipei on Thursday and Feb. 28 respectively, while actor-singer Park Jung-min is to hold fan meetings in the city on Feb. 22.
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Crowd Lu to play again
Singer-songwriter Crowd Lu (盧廣仲) is to hold a concert at the Taipei Arena on Mar. 29, his first concert since completing his compulsory year-long military service last month. The 28-year-old singer, whose geeky appearance has made him instantly recognizable among pop musicians, said on Thursday that he felt he has “become smarter” over the past year because he has used his time in the service to read and reflect on life. Lu is best known for largely acoustic songs punctuated with high notes. He learned to play guitar in the hospital when he was recovering from a car accident in college. His hard work was honored with Best New Artist and Best Composer awards at the 20th Golden Melody Awards in 2009 for his debut album 100 Ways of Life.
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