First it was Zhao Wei
At the World Chinese Music Awards last weekend in Shanghai, security, which in China is usually zealous if not always competent, was unable to prevent fans from stretching out their hands and molesting Ken Chu, Gigi and Nicholas Tse as they walked the red carpet into the venue. Nicholas even suffered a cut that drew blood. Things went from bad to worse for Gigi when the award she won broke in half and part of it dropped onto her knee making it hard for her to walk.
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Cecelia Cheung had her own run in with an out-of-control fan at a show in Chongqing when a man rushed the stage, grabbed her and touched her breasts before he was jerked off stage by security [outrageous, ed]. Hong Kong's gossip media that trail Cecilia round the clock insinuated that she may have brought the attack upon herself with her supposedly strange behavior of late. By strange, they mean her increasingly outlandish clothes, tattoos, Buddhist bead bracelets and the voodoo doll she was photographed with a couple weeks ago. There were rumors in the city's papers that she was using the voodoo doll to take revenge on her former boyfriend Nicholas Tse, who dropped her like a dirty tissue for Faye Wong (
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As annoying as the crazed fans in China may be, it seems that the mainland is where the big bucks are for stars these days, according to The Great Daily News (
Not surprisingly, Jay is also at the top of the heap in album sales. The most recent summer sales figures show Jay as having sold 305,000 copies of his latest album, which was named after his mother Ye Hui-mei (
Though not stars on the level of Jay and company, yet still household names in Taiwan -- partly because of a four-person sex scandal dating from last year -- ?the rock band Chairman (
Another Taipei show to look forward to that Pop Stop has learnt about from the owners of Room 18 is British R&B sensation Craig David. The venue is set for the National Taiwan University gymnasium, on Oct. 24. The organizers wouldn't say whether Craig would show up at their club after the show.
May 26 to June 1 When the Qing Dynasty first took control over many parts of Taiwan in 1684, it roughly continued the Kingdom of Tungning’s administrative borders (see below), setting up one prefecture and three counties. The actual area of control covered today’s Chiayi, Tainan and Kaohsiung. The administrative center was in Taiwan Prefecture, in today’s Tainan. But as Han settlement expanded and due to rebellions and other international incidents, the administrative units became more complex. By the time Taiwan became a province of the Qing in 1887, there were three prefectures, eleven counties, three subprefectures and one directly-administered prefecture, with
Taiwan Power Co (Taipower, 台電) and the New Taipei City Government in May last year agreed to allow the activation of a spent fuel storage facility for the Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant in Shihmen District (石門). The deal ended eleven years of legal wrangling. According to the Taipower announcement, the city government engaged in repeated delays, failing to approve water and soil conservation plans. Taipower said at the time that plans for another dry storage facility for the Guosheng Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Wanli District (萬里) remained stuck in legal limbo. Later that year an agreement was reached
What does the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) in the Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) era stand for? What sets it apart from their allies, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT)? With some shifts in tone and emphasis, the KMT’s stances have not changed significantly since the late 2000s and the era of former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九). The Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) current platform formed in the mid-2010s under the guidance of Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), and current President William Lai (賴清德) campaigned on continuity. Though their ideological stances may be a bit stale, they have the advantage of being broadly understood by the voters.
In a high-rise office building in Taipei’s government district, the primary agency for maintaining links to Thailand’s 108 Yunnan villages — which are home to a population of around 200,000 descendants of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) armies stranded in Thailand following the Chinese Civil War — is the Overseas Community Affairs Council (OCAC). Established in China in 1926, the OCAC was born of a mandate to support Chinese education, culture and economic development in far flung Chinese diaspora communities, which, especially in southeast Asia, had underwritten the military insurgencies against the Qing Dynasty that led to the founding of
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