EMPLOYMENT
Vietnamese target Taiwan
More than half of Vietnam’s migrant workers are working in Taiwan, making the nation the largest destination for Vietnamese laborers working overseas, according to Vietnamese government statistics released on Monday. The statistics show that a total of 92,671 Vietnamese migrant workers were working overseas in the first nine months of this year, with Taiwan accounting for 47,139 of them, or 51 percent. Japan came second, taking 36,250 Vietnamese migrant workers in the same period, the statistics showed. Last month alone, Vietnam sent a total of 13,733 migrant workers overseas, 7,393 of whom went to Taiwan, followed by Japan, which took 5,025. Vietnam has set a goal of exporting 126,000 migrant workers, surpassing a previous target of 10,500.
EMPLOYMENT
Labor Fund increases 5.78%
The Labor Fund has generated a return on investment of NT$191.86 billion (US$6.37 billion) in the first eight months of this year, with a 5.78 percent rate of return, Bureau of Labor Funds Deputy Director Liu Li-ju (劉麗茹) said. Bureau data showed that the Labor Fund, composed of labor retirement funds accumulated under the old and new pension schemes, the labor insurance fund, the occupational accident relief fund and the fund allocated to pay for wage arrears, totaled NT$3.5156 trillion as of the end of August. Noting that world economy remains upbeat, Liu said the bureau would take into account factors that can affect the global economy to ensure stable revenue growth for the fund. Meanwhile, the National Pension Insurance Fund managed by the bureau has reached NT$286.7 billion after creating a return on investment of NT$16.11 billion during the same period. The rate of return was 6.2 percent.
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
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
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