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.
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
It’s an enormous dome of colorful glass, something between the Sistine Chapel and a Marc Chagall fresco. And yet, it’s just a subway station. Formosa Boulevard is the heart of Kaohsiung’s mass transit system. In metro terms, it’s modest: the only transfer station in a network with just two lines. But it’s a landmark nonetheless: a civic space that serves as much more than a point of transit. On a hot Sunday, the corridors and vast halls are filled with a market selling everything from second-hand clothes to toys and house decorations. It’s just one of the many events the station hosts,
Among Thailand’s Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) villages, a certain rivalry exists between Arunothai, the largest of these villages, and Mae Salong, which is currently the most prosperous. Historically, the rivalry stems from a split in KMT military factions in the early 1960s, which divided command and opium territories after Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) cut off open support in 1961 due to international pressure (see part two, “The KMT opium lords of the Golden Triangle,” on May 20). But today this rivalry manifests as a different kind of split, with Arunothai leading a pro-China faction and Mae Salong staunchly aligned to Taiwan.
Two moves show Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) is gunning for Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) party chair and the 2028 presidential election. Technically, these are not yet “officially” official, but by the rules of Taiwan politics, she is now on the dance floor. Earlier this month Lu confirmed in an interview in Japan’s Nikkei that she was considering running for KMT chair. This is not new news, but according to reports from her camp she previously was still considering the case for and against running. By choosing a respected, international news outlet, she declared it to the world. While the outside world
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