Kaohsiung residents yesterday called on the city government to beef up security after police officers were called out several times to investigate disputes that ended in bloody attacks, including a street brawl.
Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) urged residents not to let themselves become angry, and ordered police to increase patrols.
“I ask again for Kaohsiung residents and all friends, please do not turn to violence. It is important to have harmony in our city and to show people that we are a ‘sunny’ city,” Han said. “Many tourists are coming to Kaohsiung, so our residents must by all means eliminate violence and brutality.”
An argument between a carpentry instructor and an apprentice at a KTV parlor in Sinsing District (新興) allegedly escalated into a fist fight before the instructor grabbed a cleaver from the kitchen and sliced the other man.
The apprentice, 24, was in intensive care as of press time last night.
A morning dispute at a seafood restaurant in Sanmin District (三民) between the proprietor and a customer on the proper way to give a toast turned into a fight with broken beer bottles allegedly being used to cut each other’s faces.
A street brawl was reportedly sparked by an argument between two over a woman, which escalated despite friends trying to intervene.
Eyewitnesses said about 20 people were involved, and one man attacked another with a katana, inflicting several cuts.
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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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