The Golden Melody Awards are set to take place next week, and this year the traditional hostess of the event, Momoko Tao (
Pop Stop isn't quite sure if the theme is meant as a verb or a noun, but is certain that having Lin Chih-lin don a shaggy wig and pretend to be a member of the Beatles and Patty Hou dress like a 1950s teenie bopper at a pre-event press conference this week didn't quite scream party. It was just plain weird. Hopefully it doesn't foreshadow more Golden Melody bloopers to come. In the past there has been a dais that didn't rise out of the stage when it was supposed to, award presenters who've announced awards for themselves, or who have been handed the wrong category envelope, or whole categories where no winner was selected.
This week the Cannes Film Festival was in full swing, but there has been little hype about the competing Chinese-language films. The only news out of Cannes concerned the glitterati parties at nearby French castles and Shu Qi (
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After veteran actor/comedian Ni Min-jan's
Expecting her second baby in July, sexy mom Lee Chien-rong (
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PHOTO: TAIPEI TIMES
May 11 to May 18 The original Taichung Railway Station was long thought to have been completely razed. Opening on May 15, 1905, the one-story wooden structure soon outgrew its purpose and was replaced in 1917 by a grandiose, Western-style station. During construction on the third-generation station in 2017, workers discovered the service pit for the original station’s locomotive depot. A year later, a small wooden building on site was determined by historians to be the first stationmaster’s office, built around 1908. With these findings, the Taichung Railway Station Cultural Park now boasts that it has
The latest Formosa poll released at the end of last month shows confidence in President William Lai (賴清德) plunged 8.1 percent, while satisfaction with the Lai administration fared worse with a drop of 8.5 percent. Those lacking confidence in Lai jumped by 6 percent and dissatisfaction in his administration spiked up 6.7 percent. Confidence in Lai is still strong at 48.6 percent, compared to 43 percent lacking confidence — but this is his worst result overall since he took office. For the first time, dissatisfaction with his administration surpassed satisfaction, 47.3 to 47.1 percent. Though statistically a tie, for most
Six weeks before I embarked on a research mission in Kyoto, I was sitting alone at a bar counter in Melbourne. Next to me, a woman was bragging loudly to a friend: She, too, was heading to Kyoto, I quickly discerned. Except her trip was in four months. And she’d just pulled an all-nighter booking restaurant reservations. As I snooped on the conversation, I broke out in a sweat, panicking because I’d yet to secure a single table. Then I remembered: Eating well in Japan is absolutely not something to lose sleep over. It’s true that the best-known institutions book up faster
In February of this year the Taipei Times reported on the visit of Lienchiang County Commissioner Wang Chung-ming (王忠銘) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and a delegation to a lantern festival in Fuzhou’s Mawei District in Fujian Province. “Today, Mawei and Matsu jointly marked the lantern festival,” Wang was quoted as saying, adding that both sides “being of one people,” is a cause for joy. Wang was passing around a common claim of officials of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the PRC’s allies and supporters in Taiwan — KMT and the Taiwan People’s Party — and elsewhere: Taiwan and
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