LOTTERY
Special prizes identified
Sixteen receipts issued in the May-to-June period matched the numbers for the NT$10 million (US$318,715) special prize in the Uniform Invoice Lottery, the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday. One of the winning invoices was for two drinks at a FamilyMart in New Taipei City’s Banciao District (板橋) bought for NT$45, the convenience store said, while 7-Eleven reported that three of the invoices were issued at its stores in Hsinchu County and New Taipei City’s Yonghe (永和) and Banciao districts for purchases of NT$50, NT$56 and NT$85 respectively. Among the 14 winners of the NT$2 million grand prize, three were issued at 7-Eleven stores in Hualien County and Taichung, and one at a FamilyMart in Kaohsiung, the companies said. The winning number for the special prize is 46356460, the Ministry of Finance announced on Thursday last week. The grand prize number is 56337787, while the NT$200,000 first-prize numbers are 93339845, 83390355 and 80431063.
CRIME
Cigarette operation thwarted
Officials on Wednesday seized 167,000 packs of cigarettes worth NT$8.35 million from two Taiwan-registered fishing boats that were allegedly trying to smuggle them into Yilan County, the Coast Guard Administration said on Thursday. Based on a tip-off, a team of coast guard officials in Pingtung and Yilan counties raided a fishing boat that arrived at Nanfangao Fishing Port (南方澳漁港) and was about to unload the untaxed cigarettes from two other fishing vessels. Officials found 167,000 packs of untaxed cigarettes on the two other boats for a total of 334 boxes, officials said. The cigarettes were four Chinese brands. Three people were arrested, including the captains of the boats, who were later sent to the district prosecutors’ office for questioning.
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