Nov. 9 to Nov. 15
1 Jasmine Fish Leong (梁靜茹) and J'Adore (崇拜) with 19.18 percent of sales
2 Jay Chou (周杰倫) and On the Run (我很忙) with 15.86%
3 Sodagreen (蘇打綠) and Incomparable Beauty (無與倫比的美麗) with 5.96%
4 Jolin Tsai (蔡依林) and Agent J (特務J) with 4.55%
5 Michael Wong (光良) and Never Apart (不會分離) with 4.03%
Source: Album chart compiled from G-Music (www.g-music.com.tw), based on retail sales
From a rocky perch a larger-than-life rendition of a female protester, clad in a hard hat and a gas mask, gazes over a city in turmoil. Known as Lady Liberty Hong Kong, the statue was hauled to the top of Lion Rock during the 2019 pro-democracy protests. It was meant to be her final resting place. But now all that remains of that intention is photographs. The statue was destroyed by unknown assailants the day after it was hauled up the peak, a landmark said to represent the resilient spirit of Hongkongers. A photograph of Lady Liberty’s brief installation is one
When it comes to vehicles hitting pedestrians, the blanket term “accident” doesn’t cut it for the activists behind Vision Zero Taiwan. “We have … mistaken accident for acts of nature, forgetting their human-made origin,” reads the text for an event on Saturday organized by the group to commemorate victims of “traffic violence.” As part of the Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims in Taiwan, demonstrators will gather at 6pm in busy districts in Taipei, Hsinchu, Taichung and Kaohsiung. Participants will walk along an assigned route to commemorate the 3,023 people who lost their lives on Taiwan’s roads last year.
Motoring across the calm waters of the South China Sea, Taiwanese captain Lu Wen-shiung recalls the old days, when Chinese and Taiwanese fishers used to meet behind rocky headlands, anchoring their boats out of the authorities’ sight, to share a meal. There was less surveillance then, and the two sides were more friendly, fishing the same waters, occasionally selling to each other on the sly. “We were like brothers, we had a good relationship, they would even cook for us,” he says. “But … now the control has become more strict, the [Chinese] coast guard will call me if the boats
When I saw the title of this book, I prejudged it. “Another writer who thinks ‘breaking away from China’ is the lens through which Taiwan must forever be viewed,” I thought. That assumption was way off. Instead of dwelling on the island’s proximity to China, author Jonathan Clements delights the pro-Taiwan reader by pointing out in his preface how close Taiwan also lies to the Philippines and to Japan’s Yonaguni Island. But here he stumbles a bit. His assertion that “Japan, or some possession of it, is just as close as China” isn’t quite correct. Yonaguni (111km from the coast of