There was plenty of love and a bit of heartbreak in the air last Saturday (Valentine's Day). So, starting off with the love.
David Tao, Lee Hom Wong (
Elva kicked things off with four impressive, choreography-heavy numbers twirling on five-inch heels in a can-can dress, which later was removed in favor of a pair of hot pants practically as wide as a strand of dental floss. It took two songs for her to finally start singing in key, but with outfits like hers, no one seemed to notice. Eason followed up with a short set of superbly sung hits, including K Song King (
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Lee Hom, looking like P. Diddy in a full white suit, ran through his set, showing off his musical prowess on piano, violin and guitar, finally reaching his finale of One and Only (
According to this week's Next Magazine (
The magazine also reported on a second budding romance between Wilbur Pan (
In the heartbreak arena, the relationship between Hong Kong singers Sammi Cheng (
Shed a tear for Junior of the boy band Cosmos as well, because he divulged to The Great Daily News (
April 28 to May 4 During the Japanese colonial era, a city’s “first” high school typically served Japanese students, while Taiwanese attended the “second” high school. Only in Taichung was this reversed. That’s because when Taichung First High School opened its doors on May 1, 1915 to serve Taiwanese students who were previously barred from secondary education, it was the only high school in town. Former principal Hideo Azukisawa threatened to quit when the government in 1922 attempted to transfer the “first” designation to a new local high school for Japanese students, leading to this unusual situation. Prior to the Taichung First
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) hatched a bold plan to charge forward and seize the initiative when he held a protest in front of the Taipei City Prosecutors’ Office. Though risky, because illegal, its success would help tackle at least six problems facing both himself and the KMT. What he did not see coming was Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (將萬安) tripping him up out of the gate. In spite of Chu being the most consequential and successful KMT chairman since the early 2010s — arguably saving the party from financial ruin and restoring its electoral viability —
The Ministry of Education last month proposed a nationwide ban on mobile devices in schools, aiming to curb concerns over student phone addiction. Under the revised regulation, which will take effect in August, teachers and schools will be required to collect mobile devices — including phones, laptops and wearables devices — for safekeeping during school hours, unless they are being used for educational purposes. For Chang Fong-ching (張鳳琴), the ban will have a positive impact. “It’s a good move,” says the professor in the department of
Toward the outside edge of Taichung City, in Wufeng District (霧峰去), sits a sprawling collection of single-story buildings with tiled roofs belonging to the Wufeng Lin (霧峰林家) family, who rose to prominence through success in military, commercial, and artistic endeavors in the 19th century. Most of these buildings have brick walls and tiled roofs in the traditional reddish-brown color, but in the middle is one incongruous property with bright white walls and a black tiled roof: Yipu Garden (頤圃). Purists may scoff at the Japanese-style exterior and its radical departure from the Fujianese architectural style of the surrounding buildings. However, the property
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