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• Taiwan News Quick Take

  • Staff writer, with CNA
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  EARTHQUAKE

  Quakes shake Hualien

  Northern Hualien County was rattled by 10 earthquakes late on Monday and early yesterday ranging in magnitude from 3.5 to 4.6, the Central Weather Bureau said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The magnitude 4.6 quake, which struck at 10:29pm on Monday, was one of five earthquakes that rumbled in rapid succession between 10:10pm and 10:30pm about 27km northeast of the Hualien County Government site in Hualien City. The earthquake’s intensity peaked in sparsely populated Taroko (太魯閣), registering a 5 on Taiwan’s 0-7 scale. Earthquakes with magnitudes of 3.5, 3.8, 4.2 and 4 were reported in the same location as the earlier succession of shocks at 11:44pm on Monday and 4:47am, 4:53am and 7:55am yesterday respectively, the bureau said. The other earthquake in the series, a magnitude 4 temblor, occurred at 8:16pm on Monday.

  TOURISM

  Shanyuan Bay beach closed

  The Miramar Resort Hotel in Taitung’s Shanyuan Bay (杉原灣) on Sunday warned off vacationers from the beach with a notice, saying that it is closed for business and no lifeguards are on watch. The resort hotel is part of a controversial project to develop hotels and recreational facilities on a 11.3-hectare stretch of Shanyuan Bay, which activists said would damage the coral reefs and archeological treasures in the area, and interfere with regional Aboriginal people’s free use of the beach, resulting in a decade of litigation and protest. On March 31, the Kaohsiung High Administrative Court ruled against the Taitung County Government and the developers, finding that the county environmental review had been improperly conducted and revoking the hotel’s business permit.

  SOCIETY

  Identifying stress indicators

  Of the 4,341 suicides and suicide attempts reported last year to the Taipei City Government’s Suicide Prevention Center, 15 percent were related to stress at work, statistics showed. People in the 25-to-44 age bracket accounted for 43 percent of the cases. The age bracket also forms the bulk of the nation’s workforce, the Taipei Health Department said. Psychologist Chiu Yung-lin (邱永林) said people should monitor their physical condition to gauge stress levels. If a person experiences headaches, insomnia, bad skin, recurring oral ulcers, chest pain or tightness, rapid heart rate, back and neck pain, or hyperacidity and stomach pain, these symptoms could indicate a malfunctioning immune system caused by stress. The more symptoms appear, the more the body is loaded with stress, Chiu said. One quick and easy way to relax the body is by repeatedly clenching one’s fists or shrugging one’s shoulders and then letting down one’s arms naturally, Chiu said.

  SOCIETY

  Long hours take a toll

  Long hours leave many workers without enough time to relax or be with their families, a recent survey released by yes123 job bank found. A total of 61.2 percent of workers under the age of 40 who responded to the survey said they do not have enough time to rest, 37.1 percent said they cannot have regular meals during working days, 29.9 percent said they do not have time to exercise and 56.5 percent said they cannot achieve a balance between career and family. The survey also found that only 15.8 percent have had a pay rise this year, compared with 22.2 percent in a similar poll last year. The survey of 1,112 job bank members who are currently employed was conducted between April 6 and April 25.
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