KINMEN
Pop festival adds concert
An international music festival which started on July 1 on the outlying island of Kinmen and features performances by renowned pop stars and bands has been a big hit with visitors and local residents, the county tourism department said. In order to attract even more visitors, particularly students, to performances on Houhu Beach, the organizers of the 2017 Quemoy International Music Festival have decided to add a concert on Sunday Aug. 20, after the one scheduled for Saturday, the statement said. The two concerts slated for this weekend will be held from 6pm to 9pm, it added. In addition to the musical performances, there are also numerous food stalls and carnival games on the beach, the statement said. The festival is to run through Aug. 30.
UNIVERSIADE
US team’s bus crashes
A shuttle bus carrying members of the US team attending the Universiade was on Thursday involved in a minor traffic accident while on its way to Guishan District in Taoyuan, although no one was injured, the police said. The US team for the Games was heading to National Taiwan Sport University for a training session when their bus bumped into a car near National Freeway No. 1 at about 8am, Guishan police said. The shuttle bus driver, identified by his surname, Peng (彭), failed to maintain a safe distance as vehicles in front slowed down to get onto the freeway ramp, Dapu Police Station Chief Shih Jung-fu (石榮富) said. Around 20 athletes were on the bus, Shih said. Despite the traffic mishap, all athletes were at training later that day. As the incident took place on a national freeway, the two drivers were referred to the freeway police for further questioning, he 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