A man who suffered a stroke on a flight to Austria for his honeymoon last month was escorted back to Taiwan yesterday, by medical staff.
The 35-year-old man, surnamed Chen (陳), was taken from a China Airlines plane at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on a stretcher and sent to Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital in Greater Taichung for further treatment.
Lu Li-hua (盧立華), a Tungs’ hospital spokesman, said Chen was recovering well following the surgery he underwent in Vienna, but the right side of his body was relatively powerless and would require rehabilitation.
Chen, a native of Changhua County, waved to his family members and gave an “OK” sign when he was carried into the hospital.
Changhua County Commissioner Cho Po-yuan (卓伯源) visited the hospital, where he expressed gratitude for the warm public response to a fundraiser organized by the county to help pay for Chen’s medical bills and his flight home.
“The drive raised about NT$1.7 million [US$56,600], about NT$1.5 million of which was used for Chen’s return trip. The remainder will be used to help cover his follow-up treatment,” Cho said.
Chen’s wife and mother bowed to the public to express their heartfelt thanks for all the help given to the family during his illness.
Chen’s wife said he developed abdominal pain on a flight to Vienna on Oct. 5.
“At first, I did not link it to a stroke,” she said.
Chen later fell into a coma and was taken to a hospital in Vienna. With assistance from Taiwan’s representative office in Vienna, Taiwanese expatriates in Austria and the family’s travel agency, Chen underwent surgery and spent the past month recovering there.
Taiwan is to receive the first batch of Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 jets from the US late this month, a defense official said yesterday, after a year-long delay due to a logjam in US arms deliveries. Completing the NT$247.2 billion (US$7.69 billion) arms deal for 66 jets would make Taiwan the third nation in the world to receive factory-fresh advanced fighter jets of the same make and model, following Bahrain and Slovakia, the official said on condition of anonymity. F-16 Block 70/72 are newly manufactured F-16 jets built by Lockheed Martin to the standards of the F-16V upgrade package. Republic of China
Taiwan-Japan Travel Passes are available for use on public transit networks in the two countries, Taoyuan Metro Corp said yesterday, adding that discounts of up to 7 percent are available. Taoyuan Metro, the Taipei MRT and Japan’s Keisei Electric Railway teamed up to develop the pass. Taoyuan Metro operates the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport MRT Line, while Keisei Electric Railway offers express services between Tokyo’s Narita Airport, and the Keisei Ueno and Nippori stations in the Japanese capital, as well as between Narita and Haneda airports. The basic package comprises one one-way ticket on the Taoyuan MRT Line and one Skyliner ticket on
EVERYONE’S ISSUE: Kim said that during a visit to Taiwan, she asked what would happen if China attacked, and was told that the global economy would shut down Taiwan is critical to the global economy, and its defense is a “here and now” issue, US Representative Young Kim said during a roundtable talk on Taiwan-US relations on Friday. Kim, who serves on the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, held a roundtable talk titled “Global Ties, Local Impact: Why Taiwan Matters for California,” at Santiago Canyon College in Orange County, California. “Despite its small size and long distance from us, Taiwan’s cultural and economic importance is felt across our communities,” Kim said during her opening remarks. Stanford University researcher and lecturer Lanhee Chen (陳仁宜), lawyer Lin Ching-chi
A pro-Russia hacker group has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Taiwanese government in retaliation for President William Lai’s (賴清德) comments suggesting that China should have a territorial dispute with Russia, an information security company said today. The hacker group, NoName057, recently launched an HTTPs flood attack called “DDoSia” targeting Taiwanese government and financial units, Radware told the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times). Local tax bureaus in New Taipei City, Keelung, Hsinchu and Taoyuan were mentioned by the hackers. Only the Hsinchu Local Tax Bureau site appeared to be down earlier in the day, but was back
RSS