Singer and actor Dylan Kuo (
According to Kuo, after hitting the lady, a car behind him began honking its horn and, assuming it was because his car was in the way, he chose to circle the block and come back to check on the woman. But, by the time he made it back to the accident site, the lady was gone -- to the police station, as it turned out.
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At a press conference on Tuesday, Kuo decided to
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apologize to the victim by saying: "This misunderstanding was caused by my ignorance of the law," and promised to cover her medical expenses and the repairs for her totaled scooter and handed over a stuffed red envelope. With that, charges were dropped.
Another gaffe, albeit of far less consequence, was committed by Vic Chou (
With Kung Fu Hustle (
In stark contrast to the excitement in Chengdu, things were somber in Hong Kong over the weekend, as 35,000 people assembled to pay their last respects to James Wong Jim (
The Golden Horse Awards last Saturday offered a few surprises and for Tony Leung (
If one asks Taiwanese why house prices are so high or why the nation is so built up or why certain policies cannot be carried out, one common answer is that “Taiwan is too small.” This is actually true, though not in the way people think. The National Property Administration (NPA), responsible for tracking and managing the government’s real estate assets, maintains statistics on how much land the government owns. As of the end of last year, land for official use constituted 293,655 hectares, for public use 1,732,513 hectares, for non-public use 216,972 hectares and for state enterprises 34 hectares, yielding
The small platform at Duoliang Train Station in Taitung County’s Taimali Township (太麻里) served villagers from 1992 to 2006, but was eventually shut down due to lack of use. Just 10 years later, the abandoned train station had become widely known as the most beautiful station in Taiwan, and visitors were so frequent that the village had to start restricting traffic. Nowadays, Duoliang Village (多良) is known as a bit of a tourist trap, with a mandatory, albeit modest, admission fee of NT$10 giving access to a crowded lane of vendors with a mediocre view of the ocean and the trains
The March/April volume of Foreign Affairs, long a purveyor of pro-China pablum, offered up another irksome Beijing-speak on the issues and solutions for the problems vexing the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the US: “America and China at the Edge of Ruin: A Last Chance to Step Back From the Brink” rang the provocative title, by David M. Lampton and Wang Jisi (王緝思). If one ever wants to describe what went wrong with US-PRC relations, the career of Wang Jisi is a good place to start. Wang has extensive experience in the US and the West. He was a visiting
One of the challenges with the sheer availability of food in today’s world is that lots of us end up spending many of our waking hours eating. Whether it’s full meals, snacks or desserts, scientists have found that it’s not uncommon for us to be mindlessly grazing at some point during all of our 16 or so waking hours. The problem? As soon as this food hits the bloodstream in the form of glucose, it initiates the release of the hormone insulin. This in turn activates a switch present in every one of our cells, which is responsible for driving cell
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