With the new semester set to begin, National Taiwan University (NTU) President Si-chen Lee has handed out four "noes" to the university's newest recruits: no cheating during exams, no copying assignments, no skipping classes and — something slightly more unusual — no defying parking rules.
It is no secret that people's lives have become more and more unhealthy. Modern people eat more junk food, work longer hours and spend more time in front of the TV than ever before. Indeed, research has shown that East Asians — including people from China, Japan and Taiwan — are generally less physically active than their Western counterparts, and their workouts tend to be less intense.
