A BT pop idol Wang Lee-hom
It had been two and half years since Wang's last concert here, and the new mixed style was not the only accomplishment Wang has been working on. To his gay and female fans' delight, the maturing star has broken through the cocoon of a gentle polite young man, and changed into a sweating wild stud who gave an excellent view of his muscles and dirty danced with girls on the stage.
Judging from the rapturous reactions from the crowd, Wang has chosen the right path.
Local rapper MC Hot Dog, on the other hand, has not been enjoying much appreciation. Though his new album didn't single-handedly trigger the taimei (台妹) furore among the young and hip, the alternative pop icon was denied access to the TV shows of the TVBS television network because he was deemed physically unattra-ctive by one of the producers.
Furious and insulted, his buddy Chang Chen-yue (張震嶽) struck back with an article containing a series of creative sentences containing numerous expletives on his blog.
The producer in question later explained that the whole incident was just one big misunderstanding.
Continuing on the taike note: Taiwanese director Ang Lee's (
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Moving on to skeletons in the closets: reports from China indicate that former diva Brigitte Lin (林青霞) is trying to to save her marriage by getting pregnant by her multi-billionaire husband Xing Li-yuan' (邢李源). Lin has two daughters with her husband, and gossips say that now she has to secure her status as the lady of the house by producing a male heir.
It's the same old story: once independent and succes-sful women are reduced to becoming procreating machines to bear children.
After divorcing Mando-pop queen Faye Wang (王菲), Chinese musician Dou Wei (竇唯) has taken an unstoppable downturn in life. Dou divorced his second wife, lost his job as a touring performer at pubs and now spends most of his time hanging out with friends at joints in Beijing, according to a Chinese-language daily.
How about Wei and Wang's daughter Tong Tong (
The 22-year-old Hebe of the three-piece girl band S.H.E has grown into a young lady oozing with fatal attraction, at least to 39-year-old local actor/director Niu Cheng-ze (鈕承澤). The two were recently spotted by local paparazzi making out in a car.
The girl said Niu is just like a big brother to her, and the guy said it was just a dinner appointment. But according to gossip insiders, director Niu has been chomping at the bit to ask Hebe out for the last three years.
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