CHARITY
TAS presents rummage sale
The Taipei American School (TAS) Orphanage Club is to host what it describes as a gigantic rummage sale today. The event is the club’s 44th annual June sale. Club members have collected a variety of new and used clothing items, shoes, toys, stuffed animals, electronics and furniture, as well as miscellaneous other items. The sale is set to start at 10am and run until 5pm, in the school’s front courtyard and lobby, rain or shine. Admission is free. All of the proceeds are to support the club’s funds for orphans and needy children in Taiwan and on its outlying islands, as well as AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Tanzania. TAS is at 800 Zhongshan N Rd Sec 6 in Tianmu (天母).
TOURISM
Man dies in Yellowstone
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Anna Kao (高安) confirmed yesterday that a 36-year-old Taiwanese man died after being hit by a falling tree in Yellowstone National Park in the US on June 9. According to a statement released by the park, the man was hiking the Fairy Fall trial with a group, north of the Old Faithful area and west of the Grand Loop Road. He left the trail and ascended a nearby tree-covered slope in an apparent attempt to get a better view of the Grand Prismatic Spring when a lodgepole pine fell and struck him in the head, the statement said. The group called park members and the victim was moved by the rangers to the trailhead to await helicopter transport to a medical facility, but after attempts to revive him failed he was declared dead at the scene, the park said. Kao said the ministry’s staff members in Los Angeles and Seattle have worked with the US authorities to look into the incident.
UPGRADE: The Kang Ding-class frigate is replacing its Chaparall missiles with Tien Chien II and Hua Yang VLS, which would provide it with long-range, 360° air defense Taiwan plans to produce 1,200 to 1,376 Hai Chien II missiles (海劍二, Sea Sword II) — also known as TC-2N — to serve as the standard air defense system of the navy’s surface combatant fleet, a source said yesterday. Last week, the Hai Chien II, the naval version of the Tien Kung II missile (天劍二, Sky Sword II), completed a live-fire test in waters off the National Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology’s Jiupeng facility (九鵬) in Pingtung County’s Manjhou Township (滿州). The MIM72 Chaparral and other dated air defense missiles that currently arm Taiwanese ships have inadequate range to combat Chinese
REASONS FOR TRAVEL: An assistant professor said that proposed amendments to penalize drivers if they used drugs overseas would not deter people from traveling People who operate a motor vehicle under the influence of marijuana would have their driver’s license revoked, even if they used the substance while overseas, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said yesterday, citing proposed amendments to the Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act (道路交通管理處罰條例). The amendments would also authorize the government to revoke the licenses of people determined to have used Category 1 or Category 2 narcotics, even if they were not operating a vehicle while under the influence of drugs, as well as ban them from taking the license test for three years, the ministry said. People aged 18 or
Johanne Liou (劉喬安), a Taiwanese woman who shot to unwanted fame during the Sunflower movement protests in 2014, returned to Taiwan last night after being deported from the US. She is to stand trial in Taiwan for charges involving embezzlement, fraud and drug crimes. The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) said it took her into custody at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport and would first question her before transferring her to the New Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office. She was arrested upon disembarking a flight from San Francisco that landed shortly before 7pm. Liou absconded to the US in 2019 after jumping bail
Shih Hsin University President Chen Ching-he (陳清河) yesterday issued a public apology for comments made in his commencement speech last week, stating that he has asked the school to suspend his duties and halt his wages for two months as a show of contrition. At the commencement ceremony on May 30, Chen said, “If you don’t manage your time well, or your own emotions, or your health, then I am telling every one of you — put a quick end to ‘you,’ because the world has no need for ‘you.’” The comments have sparked significant controversy online, and Chen through an open
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