Poor old KMT presidential hopeful Lien Chan (
The DPP also proved itself prone to being lampooned over the past week with its latest series of newspaper and billboard advertisements that are trying to boost the vote rate for the referendum set to take place at the same time as the presidential election. Pop Stop was waiting for the MRT and noticed people giggling and pointing at a DPP billboard, which features an attractive model of about 30 dressed in a school uniform that makes her look suspiciously like someone out of a Japanese fetish magazine with a slogan that reads: "My first time. The whole world is watching." The same ad ran as a full front-page on Sunday's The Great Daily News
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The DPP has also jumped on the Infernal Affairs
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And in non-political news, two weeks ago, Pop Stop reported that Taiwan's boy band 5566 had ripped off the cover of Japanese band SMAP album for their own album. This week, Next Magazine (壹週刊) has uncovered yet another case of blatant cover-art copying, this time by the boy band R&B. The picture in question shows the five boys showering together at a sauna and is almost a photocopy of a photo used by Japanese boy band V6 for their own photo collection. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, though. When planning Mando-pop albums, it's standard practice for producers to hand songwriters Western pop music CDs and essentially tell them to copy certain songs for local singers. It seems logical that this practice would spill over into the cover art.
Chinese business news Web site icxo.com and the World Human Resources Laboratory released a list last week of the top stars in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, according to personal worth. Among the men, Jackie Chan
On the women's side, Zhang Ziyi
By global standards, the traffic congestion that afflicts Taiwan’s urban areas isn’t horrific. But nor is it something the country can be proud of. According to TomTom, a Dutch developer of location and navigation technologies, last year Taiwan was the sixth most congested country in Asia. Of the 492 towns and cities included in its rankings last year, Taipei was the 74th most congested. Taoyuan ranked 105th, while Hsinchu County (121st), Taichung (142nd), Tainan (173rd), New Taipei City (227th), Kaohsiung (241st) and Keelung (302nd) also featured on the list. Four Japanese cities have slower traffic than Taipei. (Seoul, which has some
Michael slides a sequin glove over the pop star’s tarnished legacy, shrouding Michael Jackson’s complications with a conventional biopic that, if you cover your ears, sounds great. Antoine Fuqua’s movie is sanctioned by Jackson’s estate and its producers include the estate’s executors. So it is, by its nature, a narrow, authorized perspective on Jackson. The film ends before the flood of allegations of sexual abuse of children, or Jackson’s own acknowledgment of sleeping alongside kids. Jackson and his estate have long maintained his innocence. In his only criminal trial, in 2005, Jackson was acquitted. Michael doesn’t even subtly nod to these facts.
Writing of the finds at the ancient iron-working site of Shihsanhang (十 三行) in New Taipei City’s Bali District (八里), archaeologist Tsang Cheng-hwa (臧振華) of the Academia Sinica’s Institute of History and Philology observes: “One bronze bowl gilded with gold, together with copper coins and fragments of Tang and Song ceramics, were also found. These provide evidence for early contact between Taiwan aborigines and Chinese.” The Shihsanhang Web site from the Ministry of Culture says of the finds: “They were evidence that the residents of the area had a close trading relation with Chinese civilians, as the coins can be
The March/April volume of Foreign Affairs, long a purveyor of pro-China pablum, offered up another irksome Beijing-speak on the issues and solutions for the problems vexing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the US: “America and China at the Edge of Ruin: A Last Chance to Step Back From the Brink” rang the provocative title, by David M. Lampton and Wang Jisi (王緝思). If one ever wants to describe what went wrong with US-PRC relations, the career of Wang Jisi is a good place to start. Wang has extensive experience in the US and the West. He was a visiting
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