The rumors of a romantic liaison between Jay Chou (
The pair provided scant details of their budding romance, but confirmed that they were closer than just friends and asked if the the media could please leave them alone. Fat chance. The story was front-page news in all the major papers and dominated the gossip rags until news emerged of Korean actress Lee Eun-joo's suicide Tuesday.
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Once the Jay-Hou story began to stale, Jay's erstwhile rumored paramour Jolin Tsai (蔡依林), who was said to be washing her face with tears over the affair, hosted a press conference Tuesday to let everyone know that she was, in fact, fine and that everyone should buy her new 224-page Jolin English Diary Book due out soon.
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Jolin's friends had been quoted in the Liberty Times (
Momoko Tao (
KMT Chairman Lien Chan's (
Also ducking media this week has been beauty queen Chiang Cheng-yun (
In another case of a Taiwanese pop act testing the waters in the US, Mayday (
This weekend all eyes will be on the Oscar celebration to see if Zhang Yimou's (張藝謀) Hero (英雄) can keep up the momentum for Chinese-language films gathered in Berlin last week, where Gu Changwei's (顧長衛) Peacock (孔雀) won the Jury Grand Prize and Tsai Ming-liang' (蔡明亮) walked away with the prize for artistic contribution to film for The Wayward Cloud (天邊一朵雲). The Oscar nominee's star, Zhang Ziyi (章子怡) was also the recipient Tuesday of the Hong Kong Critics Association award for best actress for her role in 2046. Tony Leung (梁朝偉) took the honors for the best male actor.
On April 26, The Lancet published a letter from two doctors at Taichung-based China Medical University Hospital (CMUH) warning that “Taiwan’s Health Care System is on the Brink of Collapse.” The authors said that “Years of policy inaction and mismanagement of resources have led to the National Health Insurance system operating under unsustainable conditions.” The pushback was immediate. Errors in the paper were quickly identified and publicized, to discredit the authors (the hospital apologized). CNA reported that CMUH said the letter described Taiwan in 2021 as having 62 nurses per 10,000 people, when the correct number was 78 nurses per 10,000
As we live longer, our risk of cognitive impairment is increasing. How can we delay the onset of symptoms? Do we have to give up every indulgence or can small changes make a difference? We asked neurologists for tips on how to keep our brains healthy for life. TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH “All of the sensible things that apply to bodily health apply to brain health,” says Suzanne O’Sullivan, a consultant in neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, and the author of The Age of Diagnosis. “When you’re 20, you can get away with absolute
When the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese forces 50 years ago this week, it prompted a mass exodus of some 2 million people — hundreds of thousands fleeing perilously on small boats across open water to escape the communist regime. Many ultimately settled in Southern California’s Orange County in an area now known as “Little Saigon,” not far from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, where the first refugees were airlifted upon reaching the US. The diaspora now also has significant populations in Virginia, Texas and Washington state, as well as in countries including France and Australia.
May 5 to May 11 What started out as friction between Taiwanese students at Taichung First High School and a Japanese head cook escalated dramatically over the first two weeks of May 1927. It began on April 30 when the cook’s wife knew that lotus starch used in that night’s dinner had rat feces in it, but failed to inform staff until the meal was already prepared. The students believed that her silence was intentional, and filed a complaint. The school’s Japanese administrators sided with the cook’s family, dismissing the students as troublemakers and clamping down on their freedoms — with
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