The death of Hsu Tzu-ting (
"If I could do things all over again, I would never do such a thing. I'm really really sorry," Bo said in a press conference on Monday, apologizing to Hsu's parents. She said she did not know Yu was seeing someone else. "It wasn't until Hsu called me one day on Yu's phone number, telling me to drop out of the threesome [that I found out]," Bo said.
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The controversy behind the suicide has even spread into the TV newsroom, causing celebrity anchor woman Chang Ya-chin (
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student named Candy. Chang reported Candy's school, age (19) and displayed her photos, even her vital statistics. The next day Chang intended to do a follow-up about Candy, but had an argument with the Vice President of Era News Chen Cheng-chung (陳承中), who wanted to halt reporting about Candy, because of her young age. According to Apple Daily, after the quarrel Chang cried in the office and then offered to resign.
Hong Kong media report that Michelle Yeoh (
Yeoh was said by the Apple Daily to have admitted the reports were true. The action actress and former James Bond girl first met Todt during a Ferrari promotional event in Shanghai in June. Interestingly, she was introduced by her former boyfriend, Thomas Chung (
The film will be directed by Rob Marshall, director of Chicago. Shooting will start in September in both LA and Japan. Yeoh will play the teacher training Zhang to become a geisha. Gong Li (
Desperate seeking attention, Chinese actress Bai Ling (
"He is so romantic, he spends such a lot of time flying to Taipei, just to take a look at me!" Bai said in a seductive tone. Bai once told Hong Kong media she had 50 boyfriends and therefore was a sex expert. She said that she became sexually experienced in America when she was developing her acting career. "I enjoy sex. Sex is a kind of beauty, and orgasm is a state of Zen," Bai said. She added, however, "In China, I don't even talk about sex."
Taiwan’s English education system is being pulled apart by three opposing forces. Bilingual Nation 2030 pulls students toward English and global communication. Artificial Intelligence (AI) readiness pulls them toward digital judgment, verification and AI-mediated work. But Taiwan’s old exam culture pulls them back toward memorization, grammar drills, timed reading and correct answers. If the education system keeps using old exams to define success, it risks producing graduates who are neither genuinely bilingual nor genuinely AI-ready, but trained for tasks machines can already perform. The first force is Bilingual Nation 2030. Launched in 2018, the policy aimed to “help Taiwan’s workforce connect
“Taiwan’s Opposition Leader Comes to US With a Message Straight Out of Beijing” read a May 31 headline in the Wall Street Journal. Top US administration officials and members of Congress almost certainly read the WSJ, and if there was a bullet point takeaway that people in Washington should absorb ahead of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chair Cheng Li-wun’s (鄭麗文) arrival in DC on June 9, that headline is it. The last few columns have discussed this very topic, and the timing is not coincidental. While those top officials likely do not read the Taipei Times, judging by the number
With weighty, anxiety-inducing geopolitical topics dominating the headlines, checking in on the wild and weird state of local politics can take some of the edge off. This November’s elections will determine who will be in charge of fixing potholes in your neighborhood, not the potholes in Taiwan’s complicated geopolitical space. Recently, after an online interview with a Taipei-based journalist, I commented that Taipei journalists never go further than the MRT can take them. He laughed and agreed. Naturally, the Taipei mayoral race is eating up much of the press attention. TAIPEI CITY Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Puma Shen (沈伯洋) has
As someone who normally steers clear of books with “transcendence” or “metaphysics” in their subtitles, this reviewer — a casual observer of local belief systems since the 1990s — found Fabian Graham’s Money God Temples in Taiwan a challenging read. Those who’ve only dipped their toes into temple culture will likely need to parse several sections with special care if they’re to keep up with the author, a British ethnographic researcher whose previous books have investigated religious practices among ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia. This scholarly volume examines a facet of Taiwan’s religious landscape that didn’t exist a century ago, and
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