Jay Chou (周杰倫) had a confrontation with the paparazzi from Next Magazine(壹週刊) last week and has become an even bigger target for the local media since then. Supporters hailed his aggression as a courageous act, while the opposition asked the king to recall what a humble nobody he was when he just entered the business.
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Taiwanese mega star Jolin Tsai (蔡依林) won first place in an online poll by MTV and took the garland as the celebrity most likely to get her whole body revamped with plastic surgery. Rumor has it that Tsai has had liposuction on her cheeks and lips and also got a boob job done to correct her flat chest. Compared to her before-photos
several years ago, the star does indeed look like she has gone through a transformation from a homely teen without mammary assets to a busty babe, so it's no wonder she won the award. Little S (
After waving goodbye to her infamous past in Hong Kong, party queen/actress Zhang Xiao-hui (章小蕙) seems to find herself perfectly at home on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. At a promotional event held in Taipei last Friday, the self-proclaimed high-class lady told the local press that she had been busy reading scripts during the day, and dating with several men at night.
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"I've been seeing some big Hollywood producers and they are much better than guys in Hong Kong. They don't rush things like trying to get you in bed right after dinner," Zhang was quoted saying in the Apple Daily(蘋果日報). Classy.
As the successor to TV show godmother Chang Hsiao-yen (張小燕), Momoko Tao (陶子) has suffered a serious setback with her entertainment show Peach Protein (桃色蛋白質), which she co-hosts with novelist Wang Wen-hua (王文華). Not knowing how to handle the plain-looking non-celebrity, who doesn't talk like a star, Tao publicly criti-cized Wang and his ability as a host. It got so bad that guest Sisy Chen (陳文茜) had to jump up to smooth things over by saying, "I think he is going to cry."
Actor Wing Fan (范植偉) also gave Tao a hard time last week on the show. Fan talked less than 10 sentences during the whole time. He looked as if he was spacing out and did not bother to respond to most of Tao's questions. One can't help but wonder: Is Fan suffering from some kind of emotional dysfunction, or is it just too much for the actor to appear on petty TV shows?
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Last week Joseph Nye, the well-known China scholar, wrote on the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s website about how war over Taiwan might be averted. He noted that years ago he was on a team that met with then-president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), “whose previous ‘unofficial’ visit to the US had caused a crisis in which China fired missiles into the sea and the US deployed carriers off the coast of Taiwan.” Yes, that’s right, mighty Chen caused that crisis all by himself. Neither the US nor the People’s Republic of China (PRC) exercised any agency. Nye then nostalgically invoked the comical specter
Relations between Taiwan and the Czech Republic have flourished in recent years. However, not everyone is pleased about the growing friendship between the two countries. Last month, an incident involving a Chinese diplomat tailing the car of vice president-elect Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) in Prague, drew public attention to the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) operations to undermine Taiwan overseas. The trip was not Hsiao’s first visit to the Central European country. It was meant to be low-key, a chance to meet with local academics and politicians, until her police escort noticed a car was tailing her through the Czech capital. The
April 15 to April 21 Yang Kui (楊逵) was horrified as he drove past trucks, oxcarts and trolleys loaded with coffins on his way to Tuntzechiao (屯子腳), which he heard had been completely destroyed. The friend he came to check on was safe, but most residents were suffering in the town hit the hardest by the 7.1-magnitude Hsinchu-Taichung Earthquake on April 21, 1935. It remains the deadliest in Taiwan’s recorded history, claiming around 3,300 lives and injuring nearly 12,000. The disaster completely flattened roughly 18,000 houses and damaged countless more. The social activist and
Over the course of former President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) 11-day trip to China that included a meeting with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping (習近平) a surprising number of people commented that the former president was now “irrelevant.” Upon reflection, it became apparent that these comments were coming from pro-Taiwan, pan-green supporters and they were expressing what they hoped was the case, rather than the reality. Ma’s ideology is so pro-China (read: deep blue) and controversial that many in his own Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) hope he retires quickly, or at least refrains from speaking on some subjects. Regardless