The annual musical pilgrimage to Spring Scream has come to an end and Kenting is once again restored to its tropical quiet. But on a peaceful, breezy early Monday morning on the beach, singer Shino Lin (林曉培), a guest musician at the festival, was spotted lying on top of a rugged young man in after-party languor, near a group of dozens of people enjoying a beautiful sunrise and camp fire. As the sun got higher and warmer, the seemingly wasted singer finally got up but could barely walk without her friends coming to her aid.
Later that day, Shino
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Another couple wasn't so lucky to get away from the watchful eyes of the media so easily. The questionable extramarital affair between the former TVBS sportscaster Cheng Sheng-hung (陳勝鴻) and TVBS-N news channel anchorwoman Pan Yen-fei (潘彥妃) has dominated the gossip pages for two consecutive weeks now. It's impossible to get away from the media hype even if you try.
Accused by one of his many ex-girlfriends -- a woman identified as Miss Lin -- that he videotapes his sexual encounters without his partner's consent, Cheng has changed his testimony back and forth, saying once that Pan was fully aware when the intimate pictures of them kissing and cuddling were taken, but saying something totally different later.
Most of the main characters in this show have been telling their self-contradictory, fabricated stories while following their instincts for self-preservation. But Pan is refusing to play the leading lady in the soap opera any more. The married anchorwoman quit her job right after the affair was exposed and intimate photos took up the front pages of every local newspaper. She left a confessional note to the public last Friday, saying in a tortured, heart-broken tone, ``I've left Taiwan and won't be back for a long long time. I will vanish in silence.''
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Not every love story is X-rated and promiscuous. Hong Kong's sweetheart Lin Jia-xin (林嘉欣) blew a refreshing breeze into the gossip scene when she was spotted going to a musical with her musician boyfriend, Chen Guang-rong (陳光容). Wearing jeans, sneakers and black-framed glasses, the star looked even prettier without traces of make-up. Rumor has it that Lin's agent got really pissed at her high-profile romance and decided to ``freeze'' her. The smiling young actress denied the freeze talks, saying she is just taking a break from her busy schedule and has been having a great time with her honey.
It was recently reported that Takeshi Kaneshiro (金城武) has an evil brother living on the dark side, who owes the Taiwanese mafia a huge debt and has been on the lam for a while now. The star is following the code of secrecy, or "omerta," about the affair and at a recent beauty-product endorsement press conference in Shanghai on Tuesday, the organizer got really nervous about a possible confrontation between the media and the star, deciding to limit reporters to five questions each. One local media member, however, broke the rules and popped the forbidden question. The princely star said nothing and gave a charming smile instead. Magically, everybody seemed melted by his angelic beauty and forgot he was just masterfully dodging the unwelcome subject.
April 28 to May 4 During the Japanese colonial era, a city’s “first” high school typically served Japanese students, while Taiwanese attended the “second” high school. Only in Taichung was this reversed. That’s because when Taichung First High School opened its doors on May 1, 1915 to serve Taiwanese students who were previously barred from secondary education, it was the only high school in town. Former principal Hideo Azukisawa threatened to quit when the government in 1922 attempted to transfer the “first” designation to a new local high school for Japanese students, leading to this unusual situation. Prior to the Taichung First
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) hatched a bold plan to charge forward and seize the initiative when he held a protest in front of the Taipei City Prosecutors’ Office. Though risky, because illegal, its success would help tackle at least six problems facing both himself and the KMT. What he did not see coming was Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (將萬安) tripping him up out of the gate. In spite of Chu being the most consequential and successful KMT chairman since the early 2010s — arguably saving the party from financial ruin and restoring its electoral viability —
The Ministry of Education last month proposed a nationwide ban on mobile devices in schools, aiming to curb concerns over student phone addiction. Under the revised regulation, which will take effect in August, teachers and schools will be required to collect mobile devices — including phones, laptops and wearables devices — for safekeeping during school hours, unless they are being used for educational purposes. For Chang Fong-ching (張鳳琴), the ban will have a positive impact. “It’s a good move,” says the professor in the department of
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