Pop diva Chang Hui-mei, also known as A-mei, is holding an outdoor concert to promote her new album, Story Thief, at Commune A7 in Taipei’s Xinyi District on Sunday. She has promised her fans a spectacular show.
Not long ago, tens of thousands of A-mei’s fans lined up at three locations in northern, central and southern Taiwan on the same day - to get tickets by exchanging the cardboard packaging of her album. All the tickets were gone within three hours.
Meanwhile, tickets for Canadian superstar Celine Dion’s Taipei concerts went on sale last week. Originally, Dion planned to put on two shows at the Taipei Arena, on July 11 and 13, but demand was so high the system was temporarily paralyzed by the sheer number of fans trying to buy them. Taiwan’s Kuang Hong Arts Management Incorporation, the event organizer, later announced there would be an extra show, on July 14.
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(CNA and Liberty Times, translated by Eddy Chang)
流行歌后張惠妹(阿妹)週日將在台北市信義區的Commune A7,舉辦新專輯「偷故事的人」戶外演唱會。阿妹還對歌迷喊話,這次將會帶來最精彩的演出。
上萬歌迷最近手持阿妹新專輯外框厚紙板,於同日在北、中、南部三地換票,僅三個多小時票就全部被掃光。
加拿大超級巨星席琳狄翁台北演唱會,門票亦於上週開賣,席琳原本預計將於七月十一日、十三日在台北小巨蛋開唱。由於門票太搶手,售票系統一度被大批歌迷癱瘓。主辦單位寬宏藝術稍後宣布,於十四日加場演出。
(中央社、自由時報)
The strongest earthquake to hit Taiwan in 25 years killed at least 16 people and damaged dozens of buildings, but the destruction was largely contained thanks to decades of preparedness work. Taiwan sits on the “Ring of Fire,” an arc of intense seismic activity along the Pacific Rim, and — much like neighboring Japan — has a long history of catastrophic quakes. How does April 3 compare with other recent quakes? The April 3 earthquake, which measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale, was felt across Taiwan. It was the most severe since a 7.6 magnitude quake in 1999 killed
A: Artificial intelligence technology has been causing controversy lately: a student was caught cheating with AI to win the grand prize in an art contest. B: That’s so absurd. Does this mean that AI paints better than humans? A: Maybe. Luckily, the student was later disqualified. B: And more absurdly, it’s becoming more and more popular to use AI technology to “resurrect” people. A: Yeah, some netizens even posted videos featuring the late singer CoCo Lee, who was “resurrected” by them with AI software. A: 人工智慧的爭議不斷,有學生違規使用AI參加美術展,甚至贏得首獎。 B: 真誇張,這是不是代表AI比人類還強大? A: 或許吧,幸好得獎資格被取消。 B: 還有更誇張的︰讓死者重現的「AI復活」技術越來越熱門。 A: 對啊,還有網友製作已故歌后李玟「復活」的影片呢! (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
Around the time of the Dragon Boat Festival in June, the streets of Taiwan are filled with the delightful aroma of zongzi, a traditional snack made of sticky rice wrapped in leaves. The leaves are folded into a cone and then filled with sticky rice and other ingredients such as braised pork belly, peanuts and salted duck egg yolks. The filled leaves are then tightly tied with kitchen twine and ready for cooking. 每到六月端午時節,街頭巷尾就會飄出粽子的香氣。粽子是將糯米包進粽葉的傳統美食,先將粽葉折成圓錐狀塞入糯米,以及紅燒肉、花生、鹹鴨蛋黃等配料,用棉線綁緊後即可烹煮。 Dragon Boat Festival (n. phr.) 端午節 aroma
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