WEATHER
Temperature to drop
Temperatures in northern Taiwan are forecast to fall below 15°C from tomorrow evening with the arrival of seasonal northeasterly winds. The strong seasonal wind is forecast to come closest to the nation tomorrow, when the temperature in Taipei is likely to dip below 15°C, the bureau said. Temperatures in central and southern Taiwan could hover between 19°C and 24°C in the coming days. Daniel Wu (吳德榮), former bureau weather forecast center director and a professor of meteorology at National Central University, said temperatures across the nation could rise on Saturday, but chances of rain are high in northern and central Taiwan as another cold air front is expected to head south toward Taiwan later that day.
EDUCATION
Food sale to help student
National Cheng Kung University’s Vietnamese Student Association has been selling Vietnamese sandwiches online to raise money to help a student pay his medical bills. The association has been collecting for a Vietnamese student by selling bahn mi sandwiches online for NT$50 each since Sunday. It said it had received almost 4,000 preorders in only three days. The student underwent an appendectomy in the middle of last month, but suffered bleeding during the operation. The bleeding was caused by a gastric ulcer and the patient had to undergo further surgery to remove two-thirds of his stomach. The student, who is not included in the National Health Insurance program, faces a medical bill of NT$300,000, but his student health insurance coverage only covers NT$120,000. University president Su Huey-jen (蘇慧貞) on Tuesday visited the student and promised to help him pay his bill. The school said that it had already ordered 1,400 sandwiches.
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