This week's edition of TVBS Weekly broke some big news when it reported that Wu Bai (
The singer emerged to confirm their marriage, but corrected the report by announcing that the two actually tied the knot in Fukuoka, Japan, in 2003. The couple had kept their marriage a secret because, according to Wu Bai, "telling everyone wouldn't be fun." He denied, however, that the announcement was made because they were expecting a kid.
Last week the gossip rags in Taiwan and Hong Kong thought they'd struck gold when they released photos of Taiwanese pop diva Chang Hui-mei (A-Mei,
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Speaking of Tsai, she released a new album titled J-Game over the weekend. Ever since her emphatic split with Jay, when he was spotted in Japan with TV anchorwoman Patty Hou (
Finally, model fever in Taiwan has elicited a backlash, and leave it to bad boy rocker Chang Chen-yue (
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S.H.E. had a close brush with politics over the weekend, when a newspaper in Lanzhou, China, reported that the band had said that they weren't Chinese, but were Taiwanese. Not wanting to attract any part of the nationalist hysteria that's raged in China over the past several weekends, the girl band moved quickly to defuse the potential controversy by confirming that they had never been to Lanzhou and never been interviewed by any paper based there. They also noted in an open letter to the Great Daily News (
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Next week, candidates will officially register to run for chair of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). By the end of Friday, we will know who has registered for the Oct. 18 election. The number of declared candidates has been fluctuating daily. Some candidates registering may be disqualified, so the final list may be in flux for weeks. The list of likely candidates ranges from deep blue to deeper blue to deepest blue, bordering on red (pro-Chinese Communist Party, CCP). Unless current Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) can be convinced to run for re-election, the party looks likely to shift towards more hardline
Enter the Dragon 13 will bring Taiwan’s first taste of Dirty Boxing Sunday at Taipei Gymnasium, one highlight of a mixed-rules card blending new formats with traditional MMA. The undercard starts at 10:30am, with the main card beginning at 4pm. Tickets are NT$1,200. Dirty Boxing is a US-born ruleset popularized by fighters Mike Perry and Jon Jones as an alternative to boxing. The format has gained traction overseas, with its inaugural championship streamed free to millions on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Taiwan’s version allows punches and elbows with clinch striking, but bans kicks, knees and takedowns. The rules are stricter than the
Sept. 15 to Sept. 21 A Bhutanese princess caught at Taoyuan Airport with 22 rhino horns — worth about NT$31 million today — might have been just another curious front-page story. But the Sept. 17, 1993 incident came at a sensitive moment. Taiwan, dubbed “Die-wan” by the British conservationist group Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), was under international fire for being a major hub for rhino horn. Just 10 days earlier, US secretary of the interior Bruce Babbitt had recommended sanctions against Taiwan for its “failure to end its participation in rhinoceros horn trade.” Even though Taiwan had restricted imports since 1985 and enacted
“Far from being a rock or island … it turns out that the best metaphor to describe the human body is ‘sponge.’ We’re permeable,” write Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie in their book Slow Death By Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things. While the permeability of our cells is key to being alive, it also means we absorb more potentially harmful substances than we realize. Studies have found a number of chemical residues in human breast milk, urine and water systems. Many of them are endocrine disruptors, which can interfere with the body’s natural hormones. “They can mimic, block
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