ENTERTAINMENT
Scientist to star in drama
Henry Lee (李昌鈺), a US-based forensic scientist, is to star in a Taiwanese crime series. Lee on Thursday talked about his role in the second season of Crime Scene Investigation Center (鑑識英雄2), saying he would portray an international detective. The series not only provides information about forensic science, but also shows people that forensic professionals work to keep the public safe. Asked whether he plans to take his acting career further, Lee said he is 81 years old, adding that: “My profession is to speak for the innocent and those who cannot speak for themselves.” Producer Ku Chao (顧超) said the series places the spotlight on the lives of forensic scientists, adding that many forensic professionals have told the crew that watching the first season made them feel that their hard work is valued. The series is to begin in March.
LOTTERY
Prizes increased for holiday
Taiwan Lottery Co is offering more and bigger prizes during the Lunar New Year holiday, the company said, adding that the additional prizes would total NT$800 million (US$25.9 million). The special Lunar New Year draws began yesterday, when NT$200 million was added to the Power Lottery, the company said. The jackpot was expected to be about NT$250 million. For Grand Lottery 6/49, which is normally held twice a week, drawings would be held daily from Friday to Feb. 10, the company said. From Friday to Tuesday next week, there would be special draws of nine numbers for a NT$1 million prize that would go to people who picked six of the numbers, the company said, adding that it would hold 360 such draws over the five-day 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
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