It has been a rather exciting week for celebrity gossip hounds. The Hong Kong paparazzi dropped a bombshell: Reports indicate that Taiwan's 51-year-old retired diva Brigitte Lin (
Press reports point the finger at Xing for getting cozy with a 30-year-old Chinese woman who previously worked at his clothing empire Espirit.
Lin, on the other hand, was spotted visiting a breast cancer doctor last month and returning to Taiwan to visit her 87-year-old father by herself last week.
According to Chinese-language dailies, the mother of two daughters had recently told her girlfriends: "I am planning to move out of the house. But I have too much jewelry that needs to be kept in a safe." The remark was interpreted by the press as a sign of impending divorce.
As of press time, the husband denies the reported rift while the wife and the family lawyer remain silent. The moral of the story for the ladies: Even an ugly guy will cheat if he is able, so you might as well go for the stud.
Speaking of studs, Asian heartthrob Takeshi Kaneshiro (
In other celebrity news, Hong Kong star Leon Lai (
Ironically, the grand gesture is said to have been made in pre-paration for Lai's family: tongues have been wagging about the possibility that Lai's supermodel girlfriend Gaile Lai (
Taiwan's transsexual beauty Li Jing (利菁) this week revealed some risque eating habits to promote her upcoming beauty book. Li said she would do anything to maintain her looks and admitted to dining on human placenta to combat the ravages of time.
A household name at the Eas-tern Media Group's Shopping Channel (東森購物), the "Queen of the Shopping Channel" is always eager to share her age-defying recipes. At a promotional event last week, Li shared her unusual beauty regime with members of the press. "The placenta needs to come from a mother who had her first baby by Caesarean section ? and it has to be cooked with the umbilical cord," she is quoted as saying in a Chinese-language daily.
The latest installment in the ongoing Jay Chou (周杰倫) saga emerged this week when His Majesty was reported to have faked an illness to avoid military service. Authorities are investigating whether the king of Mando-pop committed a crime. Chou's record label company wasted no time in quelling the accusation and said Chou takes painkillers for his affliction.
But Jolin Tsai (蔡依林), his former girlfriend, was not so sure when asked for her opinion by the press. Asked if she was privy to information about Chou's illness, the star quipped, "I don't know anything about it because I really don't want to go to court as a witness."
A few weeks ago I found myself at a Family Mart talking with the morning shift worker there, who has become my coffee guy. Both of us were in a funk over the “unseasonable” warm weather, a state of mind known as “solastalgia” — distress produced by environmental change. In fact, the weather was not that out of the ordinary in boiling Central Taiwan, and likely cooler than the temperatures we will experience in the near-future. According to the Taiwan Adaptation Platform, between 1957 and 2006, summer lengthened by 27.8 days, while winter shrunk by 29.7 days. Winter is not
A sultry sea mist blankets New Taipei City as I pedal from Tamsui District (淡水) up the coast. This might not be ideal beach weather but it’s fine weather for riding –– the cloud cover sheltering arms and legs from the scourge of the subtropical sun. The dedicated bikeway that connects downtown Taipei with the west coast of New Taipei City ends just past Fisherman’s Wharf (漁人碼頭) so I’m not the only cyclist jostling for space among the SUVs and scooters on National Highway No. 2. Many Lycra-clad enthusiasts are racing north on stealthy Giants and Meridas, rounding “the crown coast”
March 25 to March 31 A 56-year-old Wu Li Yu-ke (吳李玉哥) was straightening out her artist son’s piles of drawings when she inadvertently flipped one over, revealing the blank backside of the paper. Absent-mindedly, she picked up a pencil and recalled how she used to sketch embroidery designs for her clothing business. Without clients and budget or labor constraints to worry about, Wu Li drew freely whatever image came to her mind. With much more free time now that her son had found a job, she found herself missing her home village in China, where she
In recent years, Slovakia has been seen as a highly democratic and Western-oriented Central European country. This image was reinforced by the election of the country’s first female president in 2019, efforts to provide extensive assistance to Ukraine and the strengthening of relations with Taiwan, all of which strengthened Slovakia’s position within the European Union. However, the latest developments in the country suggest that the situation is changing rapidly. As such, the presidential elections to be held on March 23 will be an indicator of whether Slovakia remains in the Western sphere of influence or moves eastward, notably towards Russia and