LEISURE
Yangmingshan traffic plan
With the flower season in Yangmingshan National Park starting yesterday, traffic controls are to be enforced from 7am to 4pm on weekends until March 25, as well as 228 Memorial Day on Wednesday next week, the Taipei Police Department said. The controls will apply on Yangde Boulevard, the main road to Yangmingshan. Checkpoints on the intersection between Yangde Boulevard and Zhichen Road, and at the entrance to the first lane on Zhishan Road Sec 2, will stop all private vehicles without a permit, traffic police said, urging people to use public transport.
CHARITY
Expats rally for quake relief
Taiwanese expatriates in Indonesia raised more than 1.528 billion rupiah (US$112,327) in donations for relief efforts following the earthquake that struck Hualien County on Feb. 6. The Taiwan Chambers of Commerce in Indonesia, which spearheaded the campaign, on Tuesday presented the check to the Taipei Economic and Trade Office in Jakarta. Representative to Indonesia John Chen (陳忠) thanked the chambers and its branches, as well as Taiwanese expatriates.
UTILITIES
Water suspended in Tainan
Taiwan Water Corp on Wednesday said that water supply to an estimated 350,000 households in Tainan would be suspended from 8am on Monday to 7am on Wednesday to replace old pipelines. The state-owned utility said the supply to 16 administrative districts in the city would be completely cut off and water pressure would be reduced in seven other districts. Taiwan Water is to have 103 water retrieving stations in place during the 47-hour period.
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