SOCIETY
Man finds gold in car park
Taitung police on Wednesday said a man handed in a cardboard box containing 280g of gold that he found in a parking lot. The man, surnamed Lai (賴), found the gold near a restaurant and immediately took it to a local police station. Police found a train ticket inside the box and went to the Taitung Train Station to search for the ticket owner, who turned out to be a 60-year-old woman surnamed Chen (陳). When police asked her if she had lost any gold, Chen said she did not know that she had misplaced the box and must have left it in the parking lot while she was moving house. When Chen retrieved her property from the police station she left a cash reward to thank Lai for returning her gold, police said.
WEATHER
Rain expected to stay
Low temperatures and wet weather in northern and eastern Taiwan are likely to continue until tomorrow, the Central Weather Bureau said. Daytime temperatures are expected to increase today in the north and northeast due to the weakening of a cold air mass, but the rain is likely to continue, the bureau said. The weather is expected to clear tomorrow and temperatures could climb to 22°C in the north, to 26°C in central Taiwan, to 30°C in the south and to 26°C degrees in the east, the bureau said. Some parts of northern and eastern Taiwan, as well as mountainous areas in central and southern Taiwan, are expected to have occasional showers, the bureau forecast. However, temperatures are expected to drop again on Sunday and Monday with the arrival of another cold front, the bureau said. Air quality in Yilan, Hualien and Taitung counties is today expected to be good, moderate in northern Taiwan and unhealthy in central and southern Taiwan, the Taiwan Air Quality Monitoring Network 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:
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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