CULTURE
Dihua shopper festival planned
Visitors to Taipei looking for a feel of the Lunar New Year holiday atmosphere should visit Dihua Street (迪化街) and nearby shopping districts for a shopping festival set to open later this week, Taipei City Government officials said yesterday. The city announced that the area’s Lunar New Year shopping festival would begin on Saturday and that it would run through Feb. 1, the day before Lunar New Year’s Eve. In addition to Dihua Street, which specializes in dried goods and other traditional New Year snacks, nearby areas will also be holding sales offering festival commodities.
HEALTH
Hsinchu workers fatigued
More than half the workers at the country’s largest science park are suffering from fatigue, according to the Hsinchu City Government’s Public Health Bureau. Based on the physical examination records conducted by clinics at the Hsinchu Science Park, more than 50 percent of the workers are in poor health. Excess weight, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high triglyceride and high uric acid levels were cited as the top five problems suffered by those aged under 30. The bureau said that although fatigue, often caused by overwork or stress, poses no immediate or fatal danger, it has become a threat to the workers at the park, where hundreds of high-tech companies are located. The department suggested that high-tech workers conduct self-examinations to see whether they are suffering from fatigue. Signs include strain, headache, chest tightness, lack of appetite, poor memory, attention deficit and neck and shoulder stiffness. The best way to prevent fatigue, the bureau said, was a healthy diet, good sleep patterns, regular exercise and frequent exposure to the sun and outdoors.
Yangmingshan National Park authorities yesterday urged visitors to respect public spaces and obey the law after a couple was caught on a camera livestream having sex at the park’s Qingtiangang (擎天崗) earlier in the day. The Shilin Police Precinct in Taipei said it has identified a suspect and his vehicle registration number, and would summon him for questioning. The case would be handled in accordance with public indecency charges, it added. The couple entered the park at about 11pm on Thursday and began fooling around by 1am yesterday, the police said, adding that the two were unaware of the park’s all-day live
Yangmingshan National Park’s Qingtiangang (擎天崗) nature area has gone viral after a park livestream camera observed a couple in the throes of intimate congress, which was broadcast live on YouTube, drawing large late-night crowds and sparking a backlash over noise, bright lights and disruption to wildlife habitat. The area’s livestream footage appeared to show a couple engaging in sexual activity on a picnic table in the park on Friday last week, with the uncensored footage streamed publicly online. The footage quickly spread across social media, prompting a tide of visitors to travel to the site to “check in” and recreate the
A former soldier and an active-duty army officer were yesterday indicted for allegedly selling classified military training materials to a Chinese intelligence operative for a total of NT$79,440. The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office indicted Chen Tai-yin (陳泰尹) and Lee Chun-ta (李俊達) for contravening the National Security Act (國家安全法) and the Anti-Corruption Act (貪污治罪條例). Chen left the military in September 2013 after serving alongside then-staff sergeant Lee, now an army lieutenant, at the 21st Artillery Command of the army’s Sixth Corps from 2011 to 2013, according to the indictment. Chen met a Chinese intelligence operative identified as “Wang” (王) through a friend in November
Minister of Digital Affairs Lin Yi-ching (林宜敬) yesterday cited regulatory issues and national security concerns as an expert said that Taiwan is among the few Asian regions without Starlink. Lin made the remarks on Facebook after funP Innovation Group chief executive officer Nathan Chiu (邱繼弘) on Friday said Taiwan and four other countries in Asia — China, North Korea, Afghanistan and Syria — have no access to Starlink. Starlink has become available in 166 countries worldwide, including Ukraine, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, in the six years since it became commercial, he said. While China and North Korea block Starlink, Syria is not
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