SOCIETY
Family given compensation
The family of a man who died from an adverse reaction to a tetanus vaccine has received NT$2.5 million (US$78,306) in compensation, the Ministry of Health and Welfare said. The man, 50, was given a tetanus shot after being bitten by a dog, but eventually died from heart and lung failure due to an allergic reaction to tetanus antibodies, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) deputy director-general Philip Lo (羅一鈞) said. An autopsy showed that emphysema, pulmonary hypertension and coronary artery disease contributed to his death, the CDC said. The compensation amount was decided based on medical records, clinical responses and related tests by the ministry’s Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). The man’s family would also get an additional NT$300,000 for funeral expenses, the CDC said. The tetanus vaccine might cause shock due to an allergic reaction in approximately one to three out of 100,000 cases, it added. This is the first time the family of a deceased tetanus vaccine recipient has received compensation under the VICP, Lo said.
EVENTS
Jay Chou to sing in Dome
Pop star Jay Chou (周杰倫) is set to become the first singer to hold a solo concert at the Taipei Dome, when he brings his “Carnival” tour to the baseball stadium in December, his record company JVR Music said on Friday. “It would be Jay Chou’s first solo concert in Taipei in seven years, and the first such concert at the Taipei Dome,” it said. JVR Music quoted Chou as saying that he hopes to offer fans new experiences. Chou began the tour in Shanghai on October 2019 to mark 20 years of being in the music business, but it was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tour resumed in December 2022 and Chou performed two concerts this year, one in the O2 Arena in London and another in Paris. No concert dates or other details were given in the statement. Before Chou’s “Carnival” tour, the Taipei Dome is to host the very first non-sports event since it opened in October last year — the National Day Gala on Oct. 5 — during which singer Jody Chiang (江蕙) is to give her first public performance since she retired nine years ago.
DIPLOMACY
Taiwan to cohost WTO talk
Taiwan is to cohost a discussion session at the WTO’s Public Forum, which is to be held from Sept. 10 to 13 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. The seminar, titled “Greener and Inclusive Economies in the Name of Re-globalization: Mutual Supportiveness of Government and Private Approaches,” would be organized by Taiwan’s WTO mission and the Bern-based World Trade Institute (WTI). Taiwan has been a WTO member under the name The Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu since January 2002. The seminar would be live streamed on Sept. 11 at 7:30pm and would feature Acer Inc corporate sustainability officer Grace Liu (劉靜靜) and Cindy Lin (林茂生), executive vice president of Fubon Financial Holdings and head of the enterprise’s sustainability and corporate communications division. The two speakers would share their experiences in working in Taiwan’s high-tech manufacturing and financial services industries, and in promoting sustainable development in these sectors, the ministry said. Scholars from the WTI would also share their views on how to build a green and inclusive economy, it added.
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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