CHARITY
Golf players sought
The European Chamber of Commerce Taipei (ECCT) and International Community Radio Taipei (ICRT) are looking for players to participate in the 2009 ECCT/IRCT International Charity Cup on April 30. The annual tournament will be held at the Miramar Golf and Country Club. The cost is NT$24,000 for a team of four. The cost covers green fees, caddies, prizes and an awards dinner at the American Club. Players of all levels are welcome. The fee for attending the dinner without competing in the tournament is NT$1,000. More information is available on the ECCT’s Web site at ecct.com.tw or by phone at (02) 2836-8134, or call Ms Elaine Liu at the ECCT on (02) 2740-0236 ext 17. Proceeds from the tournament will go to the Community Services Center.
SOCIETY
Taipei school to hold gala
Taipei European School (TES) welcomes members of the international community to attend its Black and White Gala Evening on Saturday. The annual dinner will feature live music by a jazz band from the high school, an auction and a silent auction of items including works by artists Yang Tze-yun, Patrick Lee and British sculptor Martyn Barratt. Gala goers can also take part in a raffle. The champagne reception begins at 6:30pm and the bar opens at 8:30pm. For more information, e-mail Lyndall Taylor at lyndall.mtaylor @ gmail.com. The fee is NT$2,500 per person and NT$25,000 for a table for 10.
LECTURES
Cultural center arranges lecture on Freud
The German Cultural Center and the Lung Ying-tai Foundation are inviting the public to a lecture on Saturday with Jane McAdam Freud, great granddaughter of psychiatrist Sigmund Freud. She will discuss Freudian psychoanalysis and art. The event will be held at Zhongshan Hall near Ximending. The lecture will be in English, with interpreters available for Chinese speakers. More information is available at www.civictaipei.org or by phone at (02) 3322-4907.
Taipei on Thursday held urban resilience air raid drills, with residents in one of the exercises’ three “key verification zones” reporting little to no difference compared with previous years, despite government pledges of stricter enforcement. Formerly known as the Wanan exercise, the air raid drills, which concluded yesterday, are now part of the “Urban Resilience Exercise,” which also incorporates the Minan disaster prevention and rescue exercise. In Taipei, the designated key verification zones — where the government said more stringent measures would be enforced — were Songshan (松山), Zhongshan (中山) and Zhongzheng (中正) districts. Air raid sirens sounded at 1:30pm, signaling the
The number of people who reported a same-sex spouse on their income tax increased 1.5-fold from 2020 to 2023, while the overall proportion of taxpayers reporting a spouse decreased by 4.4 percent from 2014 to 2023, Ministry of Finance data showed yesterday. The number of people reporting a spouse on their income tax trended upward from 2014 to 2019, the Department of Statistics said. However, the number decreased in 2020 and 2021, likely due to a drop in marriages during the COVID-19 pandemic and the income of some households falling below the taxable threshold, it said. The number of spousal tax filings rebounded
A saleswoman, surnamed Chen (陳), earlier this month was handed an 18-month prison term for embezzling more than 2,000 pairs of shoes while working at a department store in Tainan. The Tainan District Court convicted Chen of embezzlement in a ruling on July 7, sentencing her to prison for illegally profiting NT$7.32 million (US$248,929) at the expense of her employer. Chen was also given the opportunity to reach a financial settlement, but she declined. Chen was responsible for the sales counter of Nike shoes at Tainan’s Shinkong Mitsukoshi Zhongshan branch, where she had been employed since October 2019. She had previously worked
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