It’s been how many months since Edison Chen’s (陳冠希) said he would leave the Hong Kong entertainment industry forever? That was in February, and there are already rumors that he is angling for a ticket back. According to a report on Sina.com (新浪網), director Andrew Lau (劉偉強)of Infernal Affairs (無間道) fame might be prevailed upon to give the lad a helping hand. The two developed a friendship during the making of Lau’s groundbreaking trilogy. Interest in Chen spiked slightly after he appeared in the Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight, albeit for just two seconds, but do we really want him back so soon? Watch this space.
Taiwan’s favorite supermodel Lin Chi-ling (林志玲) showed her quality on Wednesday when attending Catwalk’s (凱渥) 2nd Star of Your Dreams (第二屆凱渥夢幻之星) modeling competition. (Catwalk is Taiwan’s most influential modeling agency.) And Apple Daily showed its quality yesterday by using the lead paragraph of its story on this event to note that Lin sports a cup size of 34C and that she was wearing a NT$9,810,000 necklace. Loosely translated, the headline yesterday read “Massive tits overawe aspiring models.” You can always be sure Apple Daily will give you the key points at a glace.
But back on the subject of Lin, she has shown that she can take the rough with the smooth. News that her gig as the host of CCTV’s Mid-Autumn Festival variety show had been nixed broke earlier this week, but local media angling for a big response were disappointed. Speculation abounds that this last-minute casting change is the result of Lin’s father expressing himself rather too freely in support of former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁). Lin played it cool, taking the responsibility onto herself, saying that she had been too busy to prepare for the task sufficiently well, and that she hoped that in future she’d have another chance to host the program. End of story. Then again, perhaps she was simply embodying the philosophy with which she encouraged the competition’s participants: “The job of a model is to make everybody happy,” she said in her speech to the competitors. Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell may beg to differ.
The skies above Taiwan may not be safe for very much longer. Variety host Zhang Fei (張菲) has taken up flying. He has just spent NT$5 million on purchasing a light aircraft of his own, but has been practicing using a friend’s. Having clocked up a grand total of 25 hours of flying time, he has told the media that he now aims to start a flying school. And Pop Stop thought the streets of Taipei were dangerous. According to the Apple Daily, he has already been in touch with the Civil Aeronautics Administration to establish better regulations for recreational flying in Taiwan.
When asked why he had taken up flying, the debonair show host quipped: “It’s the only way to keep above Taiwan’s plummeting share market.”
May 18 to May 24 Pastor Yang Hsu’s (楊煦) congregation was shocked upon seeing the land he chose to build his orphanage. It was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the only way to access it was to cross a river by foot. The soil was poor due to runoff, and large rocks strewn across the plot prevented much from growing. In addition, there was no running water or electricity. But it was all Yang could afford. He and his Indigenous Atayal wife Lin Feng-ying (林鳳英) had already been caring for 24 orphans in their home, and they were in
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