“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.”
Taiwan would benefit from more integrated military strategies and deployments if the US and its allies treat the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea as a “single theater of operations,” a Taiwanese military expert said yesterday. Shen Ming-shih (沈明室), a researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said he made the assessment after two Japanese military experts warned of emerging threats from China based on a drill conducted this month by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Eastern Theater Command. Japan Institute for National Fundamentals researcher Maki Nakagawa said the drill differed from the
‘WORSE THAN COMMUNISTS’: President William Lai has cracked down on his political enemies and has attempted to exterminate all opposition forces, the chairman said The legislature would motion for a presidential recall after May 20, Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) said yesterday at a protest themed “against green communists and dictatorship” in Taipei. Taiwan is supposed to be a peaceful homeland where people are united, but President William Lai (賴清德) has been polarizing and tearing apart society since his inauguration, Chu said. Lai must show his commitment to his job, otherwise a referendum could be initiated to recall him, he said. Democracy means the rule of the people, not the rule of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), but Lai has failed to fulfill his
OFF-TARGET: More than 30,000 participants were expected to take part in the Games next month, but only 6,550 foreign and 19,400 Taiwanese athletes have registered Taipei city councilors yesterday blasted the organizers of next month’s World Masters Games over sudden timetable and venue changes, which they said have caused thousands of participants to back out of the international sporting event, among other organizational issues. They also cited visa delays and political interference by China as reasons many foreign athletes are requesting refunds for the event, to be held from May 17 to 30. Jointly organized by the Taipei and New Taipei City governments, the games have been rocked by numerous controversies since preparations began in 2020. Taipei City Councilor Lin Yen-feng (林延鳳) said yesterday that new measures by
A rally held by opposition parties yesterday demonstrates that Taiwan is a democratic country, President William Lai (賴清德) said yesterday, adding that if opposition parties really want to fight dictatorship, they should fight it on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) held a protest with the theme “against green communists and dictatorship,” and was joined by the Taiwan People’s Party. Lai said the opposition parties are against what they called the “green communists,” but do not fight against the “Chinese communists,” adding that if they really want to fight dictatorship, they should go to the right place and face
RSS