Singer Stanley Huang (黃立行) celebrated the success of his recent album We All Lay Down in the End (最後只好躺下來) by bedding 30 fans, the Apple Daily reported this week. But unlike Edison Chen (陳冠希), who managed to tackle at least half as many women — and has the images to prove it — Huang appeared with all the admirers at once, and fully clothed. The scoop, of course, turns out to be a PR stunt. And it worked.
Pop Stop has learned where singers from CTV’s One Million Star (超級星光大道) go when their shine wears off. Yoga Lin (林宥嘉), a first-generation winner of the talent show, took some time off from crooning last week to adjudicate a contest for models vying to become the spokeswoman for a brand of panty liners.
In an Apple Daily column headlined, “Strange old man chooses winner by staring at their derrieres (盯屁屁選妃怪叔叔),” Lin appeared in a photograph with two scantily clad models boasting that the panty liners are of such high quality that unsatisfied users could return the product.
Meanwhile, pop idol Wang Lee-hom (王力宏) might be in love, according to a report in the Apple Daily. His supposed love interest is Japanese singer Uehara Takako (上原多香子), who it seems has caught on late to the celebrity trend of going out without wearing any underwear a la Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.
Wang and Takako were shooting a music video together when the daily’s intrepid reporter snapped them lounging on a sofa, which revealed that Takako was knickerless. The gossip rag published the photo, but was unusually coy and censored the starlet’s lower thigh.
While Wang may be falling in love, Hong Kong singer and actress Vivian Chow (周慧敏), 41, is falling out of love. Or is that back in love?
The Canto-pop star’s relationship with on-again, off-again boyfriend Ni Zhen (倪震), 44, reportedly ended earlier in the week amid rumors that the couple were to marry by the end of this year, according to Apple and the Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper). Pictures published in the former showed Ni playing tonsil hockey with 21-year-old Miffty Zhang (張茆), a college student.
“I know that in everyone’s eyes I’m not a very good boyfriend,” he said in a message sent to the media. “I just want to be friends [with Chow].”
The Liberty Times, meanwhile, speculated that Ni openly two-timed Chow because he didn’t know how to reject her marriage proposal to her face. Apple, for its part, said that Zhang must be very “open-minded” because she often hangs out at pubs and her blog features numerous pictures of her wearing skimpy clothing and bikinis.
“I can date whomever I want,” Zhang reportedly said in response to media queries. “Besides, he’s not married.” Open-minded indeed.
Yesterday, however, the couple’s big day appeared to be back on after Ni sent out another e-mail to the media, announcing that the pair would soon wed.
June 9 to June 15 A photo of two men riding trendy high-wheel Penny-Farthing bicycles past a Qing Dynasty gate aptly captures the essence of Taipei in 1897 — a newly colonized city on the cusp of great change. The Japanese began making significant modifications to the cityscape in 1899, tearing down Qing-era structures, widening boulevards and installing Western-style infrastructure and buildings. The photographer, Minosuke Imamura, only spent a year in Taiwan as a cartographer for the governor-general’s office, but he left behind a treasure trove of 130 images showing life at the onset of Japanese rule, spanning July 1897 to
One of the most important gripes that Taiwanese have about the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is that it has failed to deliver concretely on higher wages, housing prices and other bread-and-butter issues. The parallel complaint is that the DPP cares only about glamor issues, such as removing markers of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) colonialism by renaming them, or what the KMT codes as “de-Sinification.” Once again, as a critical election looms, the DPP is presenting evidence for that charge. The KMT was quick to jump on the recent proposal of the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) to rename roads that symbolize
On the evening of June 1, Control Yuan Secretary-General Lee Chun-yi (李俊俋) apologized and resigned in disgrace. His crime was instructing his driver to use a Control Yuan vehicle to transport his dog to a pet grooming salon. The Control Yuan is the government branch that investigates, audits and impeaches government officials for, among other things, misuse of government funds, so his misuse of a government vehicle was highly inappropriate. If this story were told to anyone living in the golden era of swaggering gangsters, flashy nouveau riche businessmen, and corrupt “black gold” politics of the 1980s and 1990s, they would have laughed.
In an interview posted online by United Daily News (UDN) on May 26, current Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) was asked about Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) replacing him as party chair. Though not yet officially running, by the customs of Taiwan politics, Lu has been signalling she is both running for party chair and to be the party’s 2028 presidential candidate. She told an international media outlet that she was considering a run. She also gave a speech in Keelung on national priorities and foreign affairs. For details, see the May 23 edition of this column,
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