The death of Hsu Tzu-ting (
"If I could do things all over again, I would never do such a thing. I'm really really sorry," Bo said in a press conference on Monday, apologizing to Hsu's parents. She said she did not know Yu was seeing someone else. "It wasn't until Hsu called me one day on Yu's phone number, telling me to drop out of the threesome [that I found out]," Bo said.
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The controversy behind the suicide has even spread into the TV newsroom, causing celebrity anchor woman Chang Ya-chin (
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student named Candy. Chang reported Candy's school, age (19) and displayed her photos, even her vital statistics. The next day Chang intended to do a follow-up about Candy, but had an argument with the Vice President of Era News Chen Cheng-chung (陳承中), who wanted to halt reporting about Candy, because of her young age. According to Apple Daily, after the quarrel Chang cried in the office and then offered to resign.
Hong Kong media report that Michelle Yeoh (
Yeoh was said by the Apple Daily to have admitted the reports were true. The action actress and former James Bond girl first met Todt during a Ferrari promotional event in Shanghai in June. Interestingly, she was introduced by her former boyfriend, Thomas Chung (
The film will be directed by Rob Marshall, director of Chicago. Shooting will start in September in both LA and Japan. Yeoh will play the teacher training Zhang to become a geisha. Gong Li (
Desperate seeking attention, Chinese actress Bai Ling (
"He is so romantic, he spends such a lot of time flying to Taipei, just to take a look at me!" Bai said in a seductive tone. Bai once told Hong Kong media she had 50 boyfriends and therefore was a sex expert. She said that she became sexually experienced in America when she was developing her acting career. "I enjoy sex. Sex is a kind of beauty, and orgasm is a state of Zen," Bai said. She added, however, "In China, I don't even talk about sex."
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
The following three paragraphs are just some of what the local Chinese-language press is reporting on breathlessly and following every twist and turn with the eagerness of a soap opera fan. For many English-language readers, it probably comes across as incomprehensibly opaque, so bear with me briefly dear reader: To the surprise of many, former pop singer and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ex-lawmaker Yu Tien (余天) of the Taiwan Normal Country Promotion Association (TNCPA) at the last minute dropped out of the running for committee chair of the DPP’s New Taipei City chapter, paving the way for DPP legislator Su
It’s hard to know where to begin with Mark Tovell’s Taiwan: Roads Above the Clouds. Having published a travelogue myself, as well as having contributed to several guidebooks, at first glance Tovell’s book appears to inhabit a middle ground — the kind of hard-to-sell nowheresville publishers detest. Leaf through the pages and you’ll find them suffuse with the purple prose best associated with travel literature: “When the sun is low on a warm, clear morning, and with the heat already rising, we stand at the riverside bike path leading south from Sanxia’s old cobble streets.” Hardly the stuff of your
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist