ENTERTAINMENT
Pop star finds love
Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter Wang Lee-hom (王力宏), who is normally closely guarded about his private life, announced on social networking sites yesterday that he has found the love of his life. “I’m lucky to have met a girl to hold hands with and share my future,” the 37-year-old star wrote on his Facebook and Sina Weibo (新浪微博) micro-blogging pages. “She’s not in the entertainment business so you don’t know her, but I also don’t want to create the opportunity for rumors so ... her name is Lee Jinglei. She’s 27 years old and a graduate student at Columbia,” he wrote. The four-time Golden Melody Award winner has been romantically linked to Taiwanese pop diva Chang Hui-mei (張惠妹), also known as A-mei (阿妹). However, there have also been rumors that Wang is gay, and he was said to have had a relationship with Chinese pianist Yundi Li (李雲迪), speculation that Wang denied earlier this year.
WEATHER
Low air quality forecast
The nation could experience low air quality through today as a cold air mass brings pollutants from China on strong northeasterly winds. Taipei’s Department of Environmental Protection advised children, the elderly and people with respiratory diseases to stay indoors. Taipei began to see the impact of the pollution on Monday afternoon. Data from the city’s environmental department, the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) and the Environmental Protection Administration indicate that the low air quality could persist through today. The latest information about air quality can be found on the Environmental Protection Administration Web site at www.epa.gov.tw. In related news, the CWB predicated that temperatures are expected to dip to as low as 10oC in some areas of central and northern Taiwan tomorrow and on Saturday.
TRAGEDY: An expert said that the incident was uncommon as the chance of a ground crew member being sucked into an IDF engine was ‘minuscule’ A master sergeant yesterday morning died after she was sucked into an engine during a routine inspection of a fighter jet at an air base in Taichung, the Air Force Command Headquarters said. The officer, surnamed Hu (胡), was conducting final landing checks at Ching Chuan Kang (清泉崗) Air Base when she was pulled into the jet’s engine for unknown reasons, the air force said in a news release. She was transported to a hospital for emergency treatment, but could not be revived, it said. The air force expressed its deepest sympathies over the incident, and vowed to work with authorities as they
A tourist who was struck and injured by a train in a scenic area of New Taipei City’s Pingsi District (平溪) on Monday might be fined for trespassing on the tracks, the Railway Police Bureau said yesterday. The New Taipei City Fire Department said it received a call at 4:37pm on Monday about an incident in Shifen (十分), a tourist destination on the Pingsi Railway Line. After arriving on the scene, paramedics treated a woman in her 30s for a 3cm to 5cm laceration on her head, the department said. She was taken to a hospital in Keelung, it said. Surveillance footage from a
BITTERLY COLD: The inauguration ceremony for US president-elect Donald Trump has been moved indoors due to cold weather, with the new venue lacking capacity A delegation of cross-party lawmakers from Taiwan, led by Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜), for the inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump, would not be able to attend the ceremony, as it is being moved indoors due to forecasts of intense cold weather in Washington tomorrow. The inauguration ceremony for Trump and US vice president-elect JD Vance is to be held inside the Capitol Rotunda, which has a capacity of about 2,000 people. A person familiar with the issue yesterday said although the outdoor inauguration ceremony has been relocated, Taiwan’s legislative delegation has decided to head off to Washington as scheduled. The delegation
Another wave of cold air would affect Taiwan starting from Friday and could evolve into a continental cold mass, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. Temperatures could drop below 10°C across Taiwan on Monday and Tuesday next week, CWA forecaster Chang Chun-yao (張竣堯) said. Seasonal northeasterly winds could bring rain, he said. Meanwhile, due to the continental cold mass and radiative cooling, it would be cold in northern and northeastern Taiwan today and tomorrow, according to the CWA. From last night to this morning, temperatures could drop below 10°C in northern Taiwan, it said. A thin coat of snow
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