Jay Chou (周杰倫) had a confrontation with the paparazzi from Next Magazine(壹週刊) last week and has become an even bigger target for the local media since then. Supporters hailed his aggression as a courageous act, while the opposition asked the king to recall what a humble nobody he was when he just entered the business.
It was a happy Chinese Valentine's Day for former supermodel Wang Jing-yin
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Taiwanese mega star Jolin Tsai (蔡依林) won first place in an online poll by MTV and took the garland as the celebrity most likely to get her whole body revamped with plastic surgery. Rumor has it that Tsai has had liposuction on her cheeks and lips and also got a boob job done to correct her flat chest. Compared to her before-photos
several years ago, the star does indeed look like she has gone through a transformation from a homely teen without mammary assets to a busty babe, so it's no wonder she won the award. Little S (
After waving goodbye to her infamous past in Hong Kong, party queen/actress Zhang Xiao-hui (章小蕙) seems to find herself perfectly at home on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. At a promotional event held in Taipei last Friday, the self-proclaimed high-class lady told the local press that she had been busy reading scripts during the day, and dating with several men at night.
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"I've been seeing some big Hollywood producers and they are much better than guys in Hong Kong. They don't rush things like trying to get you in bed right after dinner," Zhang was quoted saying in the Apple Daily(蘋果日報). Classy.
As the successor to TV show godmother Chang Hsiao-yen (張小燕), Momoko Tao (陶子) has suffered a serious setback with her entertainment show Peach Protein (桃色蛋白質), which she co-hosts with novelist Wang Wen-hua (王文華). Not knowing how to handle the plain-looking non-celebrity, who doesn't talk like a star, Tao publicly criti-cized Wang and his ability as a host. It got so bad that guest Sisy Chen (陳文茜) had to jump up to smooth things over by saying, "I think he is going to cry."
Actor Wing Fan (范植偉) also gave Tao a hard time last week on the show. Fan talked less than 10 sentences during the whole time. He looked as if he was spacing out and did not bother to respond to most of Tao's questions. One can't help but wonder: Is Fan suffering from some kind of emotional dysfunction, or is it just too much for the actor to appear on petty TV shows?
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The breakwater stretches out to sea from the sprawling Kaohsiung port in southern Taiwan. Normally, it’s crowded with massive tankers ferrying liquefied natural gas from Qatar to be stored in the bulbous white tanks that dot the shoreline. These are not normal times, though, and not a single shipment from Qatar has docked at the Yongan terminal since early March after the Strait of Hormuz was shuttered. The suspension has provided a realistic preview of a potential Chinese blockade, a move that would throttle an economy anchored by the world’s most advanced and power-hungry semiconductor industry. It is a stark reminder of
May 11 to May 17 Traversing the southern slopes of the Yushan Range in 1931, Japanese naturalist Tadao Kano knew he was approaching the last swath of Taiwan still beyond colonial control. The “vast, unknown territory,” protected by the “fierce” Bunun headman Dahu Ali, was “filled with an utterly endless jungle that choked the mountains and valleys,” Kano wrote. He noted how the group had “refused to submit to the measures of our authorities and entrenched themselves deep in these mountains … living a free existence spent chasing deer in the morning and seeking serow in the evening,” even describing them as
As a different column was being written, the big news dropped that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus whip Fu Kun-chi (傅?萁) announced that negotiations within his caucus, with legislative speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) of the KMT, party Chair Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文), Taichung Mayor Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chair Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) had produced a compromise special military budget proposal. On Thursday morning, prior to meeting with Cheng over a lunch of beef noodles, Lu reiterated her support for a budget of NT$800 or NT$900 billion — but refused to comment after the meeting. Right after Fu’s
What government project has expropriated the most land in Taiwan? According to local media reports, it is the Taoyuan Aerotropolis, eating 2,500 hectares of land in its first phase, with more to come. Forty thousand people are expected to be displaced by the project. Naturally that enormous land grab is generating powerful pushback. Last week Chen Chien-ho (陳健和), a local resident of Jhuwei Borough (竹圍) in Taoyuan City’s Dayuan District (大園) filed a petition for constitutional review of the project after losing his case at the Taipei Administrative Court. The Administrative Court found in favor of nine other local landowners, but
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