CRIME
Poachers nabbed with deer
Two Aboriginal men from Taitung were detained yesterday in Hualien for hunting and killing more than 12 Reeves’ muntjac, also known as Formosan barking deer, a protected species. The two men, residents of Taitung County’s Yanping Township (延平), were stopped by police in the mountainous region of Yongfeng (永豐) on the border between the two counties. Authorities searched their vehicle and found the carcasses of 14 deer, including two pregnant females — the largest single illegal poaching haul ever discovered in the nation, police said. The men, identified by their Chinese surnames Yu and Wang, said they were hunting the animals for food. They have been referred to prosecutors for further investigation. The barking deer is a solitary, small deer known for its distinctive cry. It is a protected species in Taiwan. According to law, Aborigines are allowed to hunt for food, although some restrictions apply.
ART
‘Thank-you’ show to open
Japanese master calligrapher Fuyoh Kobayashi is to hold her first exhibition in Taipei this weekend as a show of gratitude to Taiwan and Taiwanese for their assistance after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. The two-day exhibition opens on Saturday at Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Japan’s Interchange Association said yesterday. Kobayashi is to arrive in Taipei tomorrow for a four-day visit, the association said. In the wake of the March 11 disaster, which killed nearly 20,000 people, Taiwan donated about US$260 million in relief and reconstruction aid to Japan, the highest amount donated by any country in the world.
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