It has been a rather exciting week for celebrity gossip hounds. The Hong Kong paparazzi dropped a bombshell: Reports indicate that Taiwan's 51-year-old retired diva Brigitte Lin (
Press reports point the finger at Xing for getting cozy with a 30-year-old Chinese woman who previously worked at his clothing empire Espirit.
Lin, on the other hand, was spotted visiting a breast cancer doctor last month and returning to Taiwan to visit her 87-year-old father by herself last week.
According to Chinese-language dailies, the mother of two daughters had recently told her girlfriends: "I am planning to move out of the house. But I have too much jewelry that needs to be kept in a safe." The remark was interpreted by the press as a sign of impending divorce.
As of press time, the husband denies the reported rift while the wife and the family lawyer remain silent. The moral of the story for the ladies: Even an ugly guy will cheat if he is able, so you might as well go for the stud.
Speaking of studs, Asian heartthrob Takeshi Kaneshiro (
In other celebrity news, Hong Kong star Leon Lai (
Ironically, the grand gesture is said to have been made in pre-paration for Lai's family: tongues have been wagging about the possibility that Lai's supermodel girlfriend Gaile Lai (
Taiwan's transsexual beauty Li Jing (利菁) this week revealed some risque eating habits to promote her upcoming beauty book. Li said she would do anything to maintain her looks and admitted to dining on human placenta to combat the ravages of time.
A household name at the Eas-tern Media Group's Shopping Channel (東森購物), the "Queen of the Shopping Channel" is always eager to share her age-defying recipes. At a promotional event last week, Li shared her unusual beauty regime with members of the press. "The placenta needs to come from a mother who had her first baby by Caesarean section ? and it has to be cooked with the umbilical cord," she is quoted as saying in a Chinese-language daily.
The latest installment in the ongoing Jay Chou (周杰倫) saga emerged this week when His Majesty was reported to have faked an illness to avoid military service. Authorities are investigating whether the king of Mando-pop committed a crime. Chou's record label company wasted no time in quelling the accusation and said Chou takes painkillers for his affliction.
But Jolin Tsai (蔡依林), his former girlfriend, was not so sure when asked for her opinion by the press. Asked if she was privy to information about Chou's illness, the star quipped, "I don't know anything about it because I really don't want to go to court as a witness."
Jan 13 to Jan 19 Yang Jen-huang (楊仁煌) recalls being slapped by his father when he asked about their Sakizaya heritage, telling him to never mention it otherwise they’ll be killed. “Only then did I start learning about the Karewan Incident,” he tells Mayaw Kilang in “The social culture and ethnic identification of the Sakizaya” (撒奇萊雅族的社會文化與民族認定). “Many of our elders are reluctant to call themselves Sakizaya, and are accustomed to living in Amis (Pangcah) society. Therefore, it’s up to the younger generation to push for official recognition, because there’s still a taboo with the older people.” Although the Sakizaya became Taiwan’s 13th
Earlier this month, a Hong Kong ship, Shunxin-39, was identified as the ship that had cut telecom cables on the seabed north of Keelung. The ship, owned out of Hong Kong and variously described as registered in Cameroon (as Shunxin-39) and Tanzania (as Xinshun-39), was originally People’s Republic of China (PRC)-flagged, but changed registries in 2024, according to Maritime Executive magazine. The Financial Times published tracking data for the ship showing it crossing a number of undersea cables off northern Taiwan over the course of several days. The intent was clear. Shunxin-39, which according to the Taiwan Coast Guard was crewed
China’s military launched a record number of warplane incursions around Taiwan last year as it builds its ability to launch full-scale invasion, something a former chief of Taiwan’s armed forces said Beijing could be capable of within a decade. Analysts said China’s relentless harassment had taken a toll on Taiwan’s resources, but had failed to convince them to capitulate, largely because the threat of invasion was still an empty one, for now. Xi Jinping’s (習近平) determination to annex Taiwan under what the president terms “reunification” is no secret. He has publicly and stridently promised to bring it under Communist party (CCP) control,
One way people in Taiwan can control how they are represented is through their choice of name. Culturally, it is not uncommon for people to choose their own names and change their identification cards and passports to reflect the change, though only recently was the right to use Indigenous names written using letters allowed. Reasons for changing a person’s name can vary widely, from wanting to sound more literary, to changing a poor choice made by their parents or, as 331 people did in March of 2021, to get free sushi by legally changing their name to include the two characters
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