<strong>March 13 to March 19</strong>
Wang Chun-liang (汪俊良) hit just two home runs over a five-year career, but his first one is enshrined in local baseball lore. On March 17, 1990, Wang’s feat extended the lead the Uni President Lions had over the Brother Elephants in Taiwan’s first professional baseball match, sealing a historic win.
During a pre-game guessing contest, the majority of fans thought that the day’s hero would be the Elephants’ “Mr Baseball” Lee Chu-ming (李居明).
“I was a dark horse, nobody guessed it would be me,” Wang recalls 18 years later in a Liberty Times (Taipei Times’ sister paper)
Former president Ma Ying-yeou’s (馬英九) comment that Taiwan is no longer a free democracy, but an “illiberal democracy” was opposed by 66.6 percent of respondents to a survey released yesterday by the Asia-Pacific Elite Interchange Association.
A breakdown of the results showed that, at 76.5 percent, respondents aged 20 to 29 disagreed most with his comment, which was made in a letter published on Thursday in the Chinese-language United Daily News.
Ma’s opinion piece, titled “Taiwan is now an ‘illiberal democracy,’” said that actions taken by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration have made Taiwan deviate further from being a free
Citing the increased risk of cardiovascular events during cold weather, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) yesterday advised people with cardiovascular disease to follow a “722” principle for monitoring their blood pressure levels.
As the Central Weather Bureau forecast that the temperature could drop to 12°C in northern Taiwan today, the HPA said that this could cause blood vessels and arteries to constrict, increasing blood pressure and the risk of cardiovascular events.
However, high blood pressure rarely has noticeable symptoms, and many elderly people or those with a high risk of cardiovascular disease might not notice a change, it said, adding that regularly
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday welcomed a US pledge to donate 750,000 COVID-19 vaccines to Taiwan, saying it sends a strong and clear message of support for the nation.
The size of the pledge was confirmed during a brief visit yesterday morning by US senators Tammy Duckworth, Dan Sullivan and Christopher Coons, and is part of Washington’s plan to share at least 80 million vaccine doses globally by the end of the month.
Taiwan is the first country for which the US has officially announced the specific number of vaccine doses it would receive after saying it would share its vaccine