When Whan consulted her new fortune teller about the future of her relationship with her boyfriend, she was told that one half of the couple tended to be sulky, while the other would over-analyze things. The fortune teller recommended that they try to be more open with each other.But the advice on t
“They say you murdered my mother,” the young would-be nun tells the shady tycoon. “I feel the need to address this.”There’s something about the deadpan delivery and the clear-eyed manner that makes you sit up and take notice of Liesl, and even more of Mia Threapleton, who plays her in The Phoenician
Beware the quirky foster mother who introduces herself as a bit of a weirdo. That’s how Laura (Sally Hawkins) cheerily greets the newly orphaned teenage siblings Andy and Piper in the new horror Bring Her Back, currently in theaters in Taiwan.The comment, more telling than the kids realize at the ti
On this small island in rural Nagasaki, Japan’s Hidden Christians gather to worship what they call the Closet God.In a special room about the size of a tatami mat is a scroll painting of a kimono-clad Asian woman. She looks like a Buddhist Bodhisattva holding a baby, but for the faithful, this is a
There is a battle gripping the music business today around the manipulation of streaming services — and innocent indie artists are the collateral damage.Fraudsters are flooding Spotify, Apple Music and the rest with AI-generated tracks, to try and hoover up the royalties generated by people listenin
They warned it could happen: a world of surging nationalism, stalling economic development and the unraveling of decades of international cooperation on climate change and other global challenges.Long before Donald Trump lurched away from diplomatic norms and the international rules-based order, sci
There is something biblical about the fraternal relationship between the atomic bomb and the nuclear reactor. Both involve bombarding uranium-235 atoms with neutrons to produce a chain reaction via nuclear fission. Both were made possible in the same instant, at 3.25pm on Dec. 2 1942, when the Manha
At Computex 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳) urged the government to subsidize AI. “All schools in Taiwan must integrate AI into their curricula,” he declared. A few months earlier, he said, “If I were a student today, I’d immediately start using tools like ChatGPT, Gemini Pro and Grok to learn,
From unmasking art forgery to uncovering the secrets of the Notre-Dame cathedral, an imposing machine outside Paris can turn back the clock to reveal the truth.It uses a technique called carbon dating, which has “revolutionized archaeology,” winning its discoverer a Nobel Prize in 1960, French scien
The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) on May 18 held a rally in Taichung to mark the anniversary of President William Lai’s (賴清德) inauguration on May 20. The title of the rally could be loosely translated to “May 18 recall fraudulent goods” (518退貨ㄌㄨㄚˋ！). Unlike in English, where the terms are the same, “r
The outcome of this week’s presidential elections in South Korea may still be unknown, but shaman Yang Su-bong says the winner came to her in visions years ago.South Koreans go to the polls today to choose their next president, a snap vote triggered by ex-leader Yoon Suk-yeol’s disastrous declaratio
“Why does Taiwan identity decline?”a group of researchers lead by University of Nevada political scientist Austin Wang (王宏恩) asked in a recent paper. After all, it is not difficult to explain the rise in Taiwanese identity after the early 1990s. But no model predicted its decline during the 2016-201
June 2 to June 8Taiwan’s woodcutters believe that if they see even one speck of red in their cooked rice, no matter how small, an accident is going to happen. Peng Chin-tian (彭錦田) swears that this has proven to be true at every stop during his decades-long career in the logging industry. Along with
A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world’s largest rainforest.But this patch of degraded fo
Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, illustrating anew the resourcefulness of prehistoric people.The tools, primarily hunting implements such as projec
It’s fairly well established that strength training is helpful at every age: as well as building muscle, it strengthens tendons and ligaments, increases bone density and seems to have protective effects against everything from osteoporosis to dementia. But a new study based on data collected over tw
Some bio documentaries are carried mostly by the reflective, archival footage that sends you back to the subject’s heyday.But in Matt Wolf’s Pee-wee as Himself — as wonderful as much of the archival stuff is — is more compelling than when Paul Reubens is simply himself.Before his death from cancer i
Parents in Japan will no longer have free rein over the names they give their children, after the introduction this week of new rules on the pronunciation of kanji characters.The change is designed to halt the use of kirakira (shiny or glittery) names that have proliferated among parents hoping to a
In 1907, four years before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙), the leader of China’s republican movement, organized Thailand’s overseas Chinese into a secret society to support his mounting revolution. The society, initially named the “Chinese Club” or Chunghua Huisuo (中華會所), outwardly
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