NATIONAL DEFENSE
Army chopper lands in lot
One of the army’s UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters was yesterday forced to land in a vacant lot in Taichung’s Situn District (西屯) during a routine training flight. The Aviation Special Forces Command said an alarm went off in the cockpit at 11:05am and the pilot, a US instructor, followed standard procedures and made an emergency landing at 11:30am. Neither the pilot nor a Republic of China Army officer on board were hurt and the aircraft was intact, the Taichung Fire Department said. There was no word on what triggered the alarm.
Photo: Liao Mao-tung, Taipei Times
AQUACULTURE
Oyster spat distributed
The Kinmen Fisheries Research Institute has distributed a total of 26,800 oyster spat (larvae) to Kinmen fishermen, who can expect to harvest them as early as this summer, the government-run institute said. The spat were ordered on behalf of 69 oyster farmers whom the institute is helping change their aquaculture methods from traditional stone poles to horizontal hanging scaffolds. The floating scaffold method was introduced from Taiwan proper. The institute said the scaffolds are easy to operate due to the lightness of the materials. As the oyster spat purchased are mainly Pacific oysters, which grow faster and bigger than the ones traditionally bred on stone poles, the harvest can start earlier, the institute said. Oyster aquaculture is one of Kinmen’s main fishery sectors. For more than 200 years, Kinmen fishermen have used stone poles as beds for oyster larvae, the institute said.
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