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Chou has been hanging out in Venice recently as his film Initial D (頭文字D) was invited to the Venice International Film Festival. The Mando-pop king is pretty much a nobody in the eyes of the European media, but the big-headed hot shot vented his frustration on members of the Taiwanese paparazzi who had been tailing him. Explaining his outbursts, the star said, "I got a zit on my nose and didn't want them [the Taiwanese media] to take a shot of it."
Chou seems to be making more enemies than friends as Edison Chen (
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Chou was apparently very proud of the Chinese-style outfit he wore, thinking it was a grand gesture demonstrating his ethni-city. Upon hearing this, Chen told the Apple Daily (
Jolin Tsai demonstrated she too could be fast and furious and was caught by photographers committing traffic violations six times within three hours on the eve of Typhoon Talim last week. Seemingly unfamiliar with universal traffic customs, she ran red lights, made illegal U-turns, and turned left and right, or stopped the car whenever and wherever she felt like it. The star said she regretted breaking the law, but didn't seem too bothered by the transgressions focusing instead on the less than flattering pictures the media had taken.
"I am pissed. I'm not as fat and ugly as in those pictures. I am really troubled by the photos, not by the traffic violations," Tsai was quoted as saying in the Great Daily News (
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Anchor women have been at the center of several scandals, and SET-TV news chief editor/anchor Chen Ya-lin (
The romance between Big S (大S) and Tsai Tsai (仔仔) of F4 surfaced when the Liberty Times (自由時報) reported that Big S recently left her promotion job in Guangzhou (廣州) and flew to Qingdao (青島) for a secret tryst with the F4 star, who had been working on a TV production there. The earth must have moved a great deal for the couple as the beauty queen cut off all contact with the outside world for five days and didn't show up for the TV show she hosts in Taiwan.
Local dancing queen Liu Zhen (
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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
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby
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
Peter Brighton was amazed when he found the giant jackfruit. He had been watching it grow on his farm in far north Queensland, and when it came time to pick it from the tree, it was so heavy it needed two people to do the job. “I was surprised when we cut it off and felt how heavy it was,” he says. “I grabbed it and my wife cut it — couldn’t do it by myself, it took two of us.” Weighing in at 45 kilograms, it is the heaviest jackfruit that Brighton has ever grown on his tropical fruit farm, located