Always eager to deliver his opinions, but not always in an eloquent manner, TV host Jacky Wu (
The joke was on Wu and prompted him to perfrom three formal apologies to the insulted Muslim community. After eating a slice of humble pie, the paparazzi-hater quickly blamed the media for the debacle. Wu said if the press hadn't made such a fuss over the comment, the whole thing would have blown over. If Wu is as smart as he claims to be, the wisest move for him is probably to keep his poorly judged jests to himself and learn to live in peace with the press.
Taiwan's pride and joy, Lin Chi-ling (
Having gotten cozy with a wealthy corporate man in the past two months, the super-model was left in shock by the dirt dug up by paparazzi about her rumored boyfriend last week. According to the Liberty Times, this very close male friend of hers has been convicted of a white-collar crime and faces a two-year stretch in the clink. The guy in question has divorced the same woman twice and he still maintains "close relations."
Chen was said to have broken into tears after the news dominated the gossip rags, worrying that no man would ever dare to court her again if he had skeletons in his closet.
Hong Kong pop king Leon Lai's (
While the couple spent a cozy night together, the star's angry fans organized an all-night stakeout outside the house, protesting against the affair. But the star, who has arguably already passed the prime of his life, seems unwilling to let his paramour pass him by.
Local it couple Big S and Tsai Tsai (
unusually slow-moving star.
Upset about the media doing too much reading between the lines, Big S' mom said to the paparazzi: "I am also a slow walker. How come you don't report that I am pregnant too?" A point well made.
Producer Hsu Li-kong (徐立功) announced last week his decision to make a sequel of the TV mini-series April Rhapsody (人間四月天), an acclaimed drama about the life of the early 20th century Chinese poet Xu Zhimo (徐志摩). Our king of pop Jay Chou (周杰倫) was among the recommended candidates for the role of Xu Zhimo. However, Hsu discarded the idea, saying Chou was too homely looking for the role. "Chou could play the funny version of the romantic poet if I was to make a comedy," Hsu told the local media.
June 2 to June 8 Taiwan’s woodcutters believe that if they see even one speck of red in their cooked rice, no matter how small, an accident is going to happen. Peng Chin-tian (彭錦田) swears that this has proven to be true at every stop during his decades-long career in the logging industry. Along with mining, timber harvesting was once considered the most dangerous profession in Taiwan. Not only were mishaps common during all stages of processing, it was difficult to transport the injured to get medical treatment. Many died during the arduous journey. Peng recounts some of his accidents in
“Why does Taiwan identity decline?”a group of researchers lead by University of Nevada political scientist Austin Wang (王宏恩) asked in a recent paper. After all, it is not difficult to explain the rise in Taiwanese identity after the early 1990s. But no model predicted its decline during the 2016-2018 period, they say. After testing various alternative explanations, Wang et al argue that the fall-off in Taiwanese identity during that period is related to voter hedging based on the performance of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Since the DPP is perceived as the guardian of Taiwan identity, when it performs well,
A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen logs are rotting, the trees grow sparser and the temperature rises in places sunlight hits the ground. This is what 24 years of severe drought looks like in the world’s largest rainforest. But this patch of degraded forest, about the size of a soccer field, is a scientific experiment. Launched in 2000 by Brazilian and British scientists, Esecaflor — short for “Forest Drought Study Project” in Portuguese — set out to simulate a future in which the changing climate could deplete the Amazon of rainfall. It is
Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago, illustrating anew the resourcefulness of prehistoric people. The tools, primarily hunting implements such as projectile points, were fashioned from the bones of at least five species of large whales, the researchers said. Bones from sperm whales were the most abundant, followed by fin whales, gray whales, right or bowhead whales — two species indistinguishable with the analytical method used in the study — and blue whales. With seafaring capabilities by humans
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