CHARITY
TAS presents rummage sale
The Taipei American School (TAS) Orphanage Club is to host what it describes as a gigantic rummage sale today. The event is the club’s 44th annual June sale. Club members have collected a variety of new and used clothing items, shoes, toys, stuffed animals, electronics and furniture, as well as miscellaneous other items. The sale is set to start at 10am and run until 5pm, in the school’s front courtyard and lobby, rain or shine. Admission is free. All of the proceeds are to support the club’s funds for orphans and needy children in Taiwan and on its outlying islands, as well as AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Tanzania. TAS is at 800 Zhongshan N Rd Sec 6 in Tianmu (天母).
TOURISM
Man dies in Yellowstone
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Anna Kao (高安) confirmed yesterday that a 36-year-old Taiwanese man died after being hit by a falling tree in Yellowstone National Park in the US on June 9. According to a statement released by the park, the man was hiking the Fairy Fall trial with a group, north of the Old Faithful area and west of the Grand Loop Road. He left the trail and ascended a nearby tree-covered slope in an apparent attempt to get a better view of the Grand Prismatic Spring when a lodgepole pine fell and struck him in the head, the statement said. The group called park members and the victim was moved by the rangers to the trailhead to await helicopter transport to a medical facility, but after attempts to revive him failed he was declared dead at the scene, the park said. Kao said the ministry’s staff members in Los Angeles and Seattle have worked with the US authorities to look into the incident.
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