After years away from the glamorous catwalk, former supermodel Wang Jing-ying (
Chen, a successful business man, didn't waste a minute in striking back: He immediately held his own press conference to deny all the accusations, and Chen's family said Wang had
suffered from severe post-partum depression and was in an unstable state of mind. Both sides are telling completely contrasting stories, and this mystery remains to be solved. Of course, the paparazzi are on the case.
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The local press is spinning the tragedy as another failed example of a beautiful female star trying to marry into a rich family and live happily ever after. The line is that this is the price that beautiful women may have to pay if they aim for the money -- that it's the law of the up-scale marriage market.
Amid all the confusion, one thing is for sure: The fairy-tales about princes and princesses are all just big fat lies, and don't you children fall for it.
In a charity event he attended on Monday, Hong Kong mega star Andy Lau seemed distracted by the excitement over his new Toyota car. The NT$2 million vehicle is said to be a paparazzi-proof, high-tech piece of machinery. It is equipped with surveillance cameras both on the front and at the back, that detects any movement near the car. Passengers are cosseted in the back of the car, which is said to be nearly impregnable. Carina Lau (劉嘉玲), Joey Yung (容祖兒) and Leon Lai (黎明) are all reportedly big fans of this paparazzi-defeating car.
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Notorious for her extravagant life style and amazingly rich love life, Hong Kong party queen Zhang Xiao-hui (章小蕙) revealed on Momoko Tao's (陶子) new TV show Peach Protein (桃色蛋白質) her plans to start a new life in New York. She denied the rumor that she is trying to run away from a NT$1 billion debt by emigrating to the Land of Opportunity, saying Hong Kong was a repressive place to live for women, and she just wanted to wave goodbye to the past and start again somewhere new.
``As for the debts, I don't have any. I have job offers for movies and TV commercials. I can support myself in New York,'' Zhang said, even though she hasn't done any substantial work in the past few years. Clearly, she's a good example of how to maintain an upper-class lifestyle using only excellent social skills.
The godmother of the entertainment business in Taiwan, Chang Hsiao-yen (張小燕), announced that she was taking leave of her TV show last Friday, which left the local media speculating on whether or not the beloved TV hostess would retire from showbiz altogether. Chang said she was calling it quits because she didn't want to comply with the rules of the game in the newly established bloodthirsty paparazzi culture. ``I hope I can do a program I like. If increasing the ratings means I have to hurt my friends, I'd rather leave,'' she told the Great Daily News (大成報).
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Taiwan can often feel woefully behind on global trends, from fashion to food, and influences can sometimes feel like the last on the metaphorical bandwagon. In the West, suddenly every burger is being smashed and honey has become “hot” and we’re all drinking orange wine. But it took a good while for a smash burger in Taipei to come across my radar. For the uninitiated, a smash burger is, well, a normal burger patty but smashed flat. Originally, I didn’t understand. Surely the best part of a burger is the thick patty with all the juiciness of the beef, the
The ultimate goal of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the total and overwhelming domination of everything within the sphere of what it considers China and deems as theirs. All decision-making by the CCP must be understood through that lens. Any decision made is to entrench — or ideally expand that power. They are fiercely hostile to anything that weakens or compromises their control of “China.” By design, they will stop at nothing to ensure that there is no distinction between the CCP and the Chinese nation, people, culture, civilization, religion, economy, property, military or government — they are all subsidiary
Nov.10 to Nov.16 As he moved a large stone that had fallen from a truck near his field, 65-year-old Lin Yuan (林淵) felt a sudden urge. He fetched his tools and began to carve. The recently retired farmer had been feeling restless after a lifetime of hard labor in Yuchi Township (魚池), Nantou County. His first piece, Stone Fairy Maiden (石仙姑), completed in 1977, was reportedly a representation of his late wife. This version of how Lin began his late-life art career is recorded in Nantou County historian Teng Hsiang-yang’s (鄧相揚) 2009 biography of him. His expressive work eventually caught the attention
This year’s Miss Universe in Thailand has been marred by ugly drama, with allegations of an insult to a beauty queen’s intellect, a walkout by pageant contestants and a tearful tantrum by the host. More than 120 women from across the world have gathered in Thailand, vying to be crowned Miss Universe in a contest considered one of the “big four” of global beauty pageants. But the runup has been dominated by the off-stage antics of the coiffed contestants and their Thai hosts, escalating into a feminist firestorm drawing the attention of Mexico’s president. On Tuesday, Mexican delegate Fatima Bosch staged a
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