Taiwan's top diva Chang Huei-mei (
Fans were out in force on the Net in support of A-mei, raising their own accusations against the Ministry of Finance of a sinister plot against the singer for refusing to play any show organized by the government after the last time she did so in 2000 got her cut off from the China market for a year.
The race is on in China to uncover whether, and if so, where, Faye Wong (
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Takeshi Kaneshiro, who is starring in a musical titled Perhaps Love (如果愛) currently in the works by Peter Chan (陳可辛), told C'est Moi magazine in its latest issue that he's no longer the handsome young man he once was. Granted, he's still very handsome at 31, but in the new film his role as a 20-year-old has become a bit of a stretch, he said. Chen had previously said that making over Zhou Xun (周迅), who also stars in the film, to perform her role as a 20 year old wasn't particularly difficult, but Takeshi no longer makes for a convincing young buck and that maybe he should just act his age.
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Actor Chen Bo-lin (
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Always one to raise eyebrows, Little S (
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The canonical shot of an East Asian city is a night skyline studded with towering apartment and office buildings, bright with neon and plastic signage, a landscape of energy and modernity. Another classic image is the same city seen from above, in which identical apartment towers march across the city, spilling out over nearby geography, like stylized soldiers colonizing new territory in a board game. Densely populated dynamic conurbations of money, technological innovation and convenience, it is hard to see the cities of East Asia as what they truly are: necropolises. Why is this? The East Asian development model, with
June 16 to June 22 The following flyer appeared on the streets of Hsinchu on June 12, 1895: “Taipei has already fallen to the Japanese barbarians, who have brought great misery to our land and people. We heard that the Japanese occupiers will tax our gardens, our houses, our bodies, and even our chickens, dogs, cows and pigs. They wear their hair wild, carve their teeth, tattoo their foreheads, wear strange clothes and speak a strange language. How can we be ruled by such people?” Posted by civilian militia leader Wu Tang-hsing (吳湯興), it was a call to arms to retake
This is a deeply unsettling period in Taiwan. Uncertainties are everywhere while everyone waits for a small army of other shoes to drop on nearly every front. During challenging times, interesting political changes can happen, yet all three major political parties are beset with scandals, strife and self-inflicted wounds. As the ruling party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is held accountable for not only the challenges to the party, but also the nation. Taiwan is geopolitically and economically under threat. Domestically, the administration is under siege by the opposition-controlled legislature and growing discontent with what opponents characterize as arrogant, autocratic
When Lisa, 20, laces into her ultra-high heels for her shift at a strip club in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, she knows that aside from dancing, she will have to comfort traumatized soldiers. Since Russia’s 2022 invasion, exhausted troops are the main clientele of the Flash Dancers club in the center of the northeastern city, just 20 kilometers from Russian forces. For some customers, it provides an “escape” from the war, said Valerya Zavatska — a 25-year-old law graduate who runs the club with her mother, an ex-dancer. But many are not there just for the show. They “want to talk about what hurts,” she
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