“In 2008, when I first stood on the stage in France [for the Bakery World Cup], I let the Taiwanese flag wave in my own way,” pastry chef and baker Wu Pao-chun (吳寶春) said.
The Master Baker, who used dried lychees in his winning pastry at this year’s Bakery World Cup, was one of 99 Taiwanese selected by the Chinese-language Global Views Monthly magazine for bringing world recognition to Taiwan.
With a cover story titled “New Pride of Taiwan 100,” (新台灣之光100), the magazine featured 99 Taiwanese whose recent achievements won them awards and recognition on the world stage and allowed the world to see that Taiwan is a land of many talents.
Other Taiwanese featured in the article include Jeff Lee (李佳峰), who won the Merlin Award, which has been called the “Oscar for magicians,” Billy Chang (張逸軍), a member of the Cirque du Soleil who put on a dance performance waving the Taiwanese flag, and Hsiao Ching-yang (蕭青陽), whose album cover designs won him three nominations for the Grammy Awards.
The magazine said the 100th person who will represent the pride of Taiwan will be selected from a series of online campaigns, in which the public will be able to nominate individuals whose accomplishments deserve to be widely known.
Global Views Monthly co-founder Charles Kao (高希均) said the magazine chose to introduce 100 people who have brought pride to the country because it wanted to “tell stories with a human drive.”
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching