A female tourist surnamed Hung from Taichung, aged 32, took a passenger boat on May 29 to visit Green Island. When the ship arrived at Green Island’s Nanliao Harbor, it happened to be high tide and the boat was rocking up and down violently. When Hung was disembarking, she was caught off balance and lost her footing despite assistance from the boat crew, and fell into the sea. In a panic, she also dragged Masri, an Indonesian crew member, in the water along with her.
Seeing them fall into the water, Nanliao Inspection Office staff, who at the time were counting the tourists, made an attempt to pull them up with their bare hands, but because the side of the boat was too high, they abandoned the attempt and called on their colleagues instead to bring out lifebuoys to rescue them.
Luckily, Masri was a good swimmer. He managed to pull Hung toward land while preventing her from getting squeezed between the boat and the pier. After a moment of panic and chaos, they were finally pulled up on the pier. Hung only suffered a fright but did not sustain any physical injuries. After the rescue, her friend helped her to the hotel so that she could rest and put an end to this terrifying incident.(Liberty Times, translated by Ethan Zhan)
Photocopied by Chen Hsien-yi, Liberty Times
照片:自由時報陳賢義翻攝
台中一名三十二歲洪姓女遊客五月二十九日搭乘客輪前往綠島遊玩,抵達綠島南寮漁港時,巧遇漲潮,造成船身強烈晃動,雖有船員在旁協助,洪女下船時仍因重心不穩失足落海,慌亂中還將一名印尼船工馬斯利一起拉下海。
正在實施人數清點的南寮安檢所人員赫見有人落水,一度嘗試徒手拖拉援救,但因船舷過高而作罷,另叫喚同仁取起出救生圈救援。
所幸馬斯利水性佳,努力將洪女推往港岸,並避免洪女被客輪及港岸夾擠。一陣手忙腳亂後,兩人才終於被救上岸。洪女僅受驚嚇,但沒有受傷,上岸後由友人攙扶回旅館休息,結束這場驚魂記。
(自由時報陳賢義)
A: As reality TV show “Culinary Class Wars” causes a sensation, it may be more difficult to make a reservation at the show’s judge Paik Jong-won’s Taipei restaurant, Bornga Korean BBQ. B: The other judge, Anh Sung-jae, also served as a guest chef at Regent Taipei last June. A: Korean food has become a new trend in Taiwan lately, and restaurants such as Samwon Garden are quite popular. B: But that restaurant is so pricey. A: Then try the more affordable places, like my favorite, OKAY Korean BBQ, or others such as Annyeong Korean BBQ and OvenMaru Chicken. A:
Colorado has taken a pioneering move towards protecting consumer privacy in the age of brain-computer interfaces. With the rise of neurotechnology, which involves technology that monitors and interacts with the brain, data privacy concerns are coming to a head. In response to growing anxieties, Colorado has become the first state in the US to pass an amendment that safeguards the privacy of human brainwaves. On April 17, Colorado announced an update to its Privacy Act, which went into effect on August 6. The new Colorado Privacy Act classifies brainwaves as “sensitive personal information,” offering them the same protections that
The Australian government will legislate for a ban on social media for children under 16, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday last week, in what it calls a world-leading package of measures that could become law late next year. Australia is trialing an age-verification system to assist in blocking children from accessing social media platforms, as part of a range of measures that include some of the toughest controls imposed by any country to date. Albanese cited the risks to physical and mental health of children from excessive social media use, in particular the risks to girls from harmful depictions of
Continued from yesterday(延續自昨日) https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang Neurotechnology used to be limited to scientific labs and hospital settings. However, many new devices that can record consumers’ brainwaves or analyze the brain in other ways have been launched in recent years. Often marketed outside the realm of medical equipment, these devices evade the existing safety and privacy standards for healthcare devices. Experts are raising concerns about this lack of oversight, fearing the potential for these tools to become mind-reading devices without users’ consent or knowledge. Other US states are considering similar regulations to protect their citizens in regard to neuro data gathered by technology companies. Colorado’s