After an exclusive report in Next Magazine last week (which was reported in Pop Stop) -- that claimed to have insider evidence that Hong Kong singer/actress Anita Mui (
Mui said the cancer hadn't spread and could most likely be successfully treated. But papers and magazines have expressed doubts about
whether the cancer has truly been detected early enough to treat and noted that she appears in public now wearing a hat, supposedly to cover up hair loss due to therapy and has already bought a burial site next to her sister. Another source of doubt is the fact that until Friday, Mui had vehemently denied what were then just rumors of her cancer.
Exhibiting denial of a different kind recently is Hsiao Hsien (
Speaking of abnormal activities, TV host Jacky Wu (
Lee Hom Wang (
This was apparently the week of unseemly passions, as former LA Boyz member and current UC Irvine med student Steve was spotted by local media involved in a rowdy public display of affection on Anhe Road last weekend. At the time he was wearing the muscle-accentuating wife-beater T-shirt that seems to make up his wardrobe's entire shirt collection.
To the chagrin of many women, Takeshi Kaneshiro (金城武) won't be indulging in any such tomfoolery because, according to the man himself, he?"doesn't have time for women" these days. In Taipei on Tuesday to promote his new movie Turn Left Turn Right in which he stars opposite Gigi Leung (梁詠琪), a reporter asked Takeshi if sparks had flown between him and Gigi, and if not, could sparks occur between him and the reporter. He responded with a devastatingly flat no to both questions.
Following up on a story from last week, Sun Yanzi (孫燕姿) and S.H.E. toasted each other at last weekend's Singapore Golden Melody Awards ceremony in a display of unity and friendship that they hoped would end the acrimony between their respective fans. S.H.E. fans have been calling for blood since Yanzi's album has been consistently outselling S.H.E.'s album that was released on the same day.
May 6 to May 12 Those who follow the Chinese-language news may have noticed the usage of the term zhuge (豬哥, literally ‘pig brother,’ a male pig raised for breeding purposes) in reports concerning the ongoing #Metoo scandal in the entertainment industry. The term’s modern connotations can range from womanizer or lecher to sexual predator, but it once referred to an important rural trade. Until the 1970s, it was a common sight to see a breeder herding a single “zhuge” down a rustic path with a bamboo whip, often traveling large distances over rugged terrain to service local families. Not only
Ahead of incoming president William Lai’s (賴清德) inauguration on May 20 there appear to be signs that he is signaling to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and that the Chinese side is also signaling to the Taiwan side. This raises a lot of questions, including what is the CCP up to, who are they signaling to, what are they signaling, how with the various actors in Taiwan respond and where this could ultimately go. In the last column, published on May 2, we examined the curious case of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) heavyweight Tseng Wen-tsan (鄭文燦) — currently vice premier
The last time Mrs Hsieh came to Cihu Park in Taoyuan was almost 50 years ago, on a school trip to the grave of Taiwan’s recently deceased dictator. Busloads of children were brought in to pay their respects to Chiang Kai-shek (蔣中正), known as Generalissimo, who had died at 87, after decades ruling Taiwan under brutal martial law. “There were a lot of buses, and there was a long queue,” Hsieh recalled. “It was a school rule. We had to bow, and then we went home.” Chiang’s body is still there, under guard in a mausoleum at the end of a path
Last week the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) released a set of very strange numbers on Taiwan’s wealth distribution. Duly quoted in the Taipei Times, the report said that “The Gini coefficient for Taiwanese households… was 0.606 at the end of 2021, lower than Australia’s 0.611, the UK’s 0.620, Japan’s 0.678, France’s 0.676 and Germany’s 0.727, the agency said in a report.” The Gini coefficient is a measure of relative inequality, usually of wealth or income, though it can be used to evaluate other forms of inequality. However, for most nations it is a number from .25 to .50