A BT pop idol Wang Lee-hom
It had been two and half years since Wang's last concert here, and the new mixed style was not the only accomplishment Wang has been working on. To his gay and female fans' delight, the maturing star has broken through the cocoon of a gentle polite young man, and changed into a sweating wild stud who gave an excellent view of his muscles and dirty danced with girls on the stage.
Judging from the rapturous reactions from the crowd, Wang has chosen the right path.
Local rapper MC Hot Dog, on the other hand, has not been enjoying much appreciation. Though his new album didn't single-handedly trigger the taimei (台妹) furore among the young and hip, the alternative pop icon was denied access to the TV shows of the TVBS television network because he was deemed physically unattra-ctive by one of the producers.
Furious and insulted, his buddy Chang Chen-yue (張震嶽) struck back with an article containing a series of creative sentences containing numerous expletives on his blog.
The producer in question later explained that the whole incident was just one big misunderstanding.
Continuing on the taike note: Taiwanese director Ang Lee's (
Chinese director Zhang Yimou (
Moving on to skeletons in the closets: reports from China indicate that former diva Brigitte Lin (林青霞) is trying to to save her marriage by getting pregnant by her multi-billionaire husband Xing Li-yuan' (邢李源). Lin has two daughters with her husband, and gossips say that now she has to secure her status as the lady of the house by producing a male heir.
It's the same old story: once independent and succes-sful women are reduced to becoming procreating machines to bear children.
After divorcing Mando-pop queen Faye Wang (王菲), Chinese musician Dou Wei (竇唯) has taken an unstoppable downturn in life. Dou divorced his second wife, lost his job as a touring performer at pubs and now spends most of his time hanging out with friends at joints in Beijing, according to a Chinese-language daily.
How about Wei and Wang's daughter Tong Tong (
The 22-year-old Hebe of the three-piece girl band S.H.E has grown into a young lady oozing with fatal attraction, at least to 39-year-old local actor/director Niu Cheng-ze (鈕承澤). The two were recently spotted by local paparazzi making out in a car.
The girl said Niu is just like a big brother to her, and the guy said it was just a dinner appointment. But according to gossip insiders, director Niu has been chomping at the bit to ask Hebe out for the last three years.
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,
The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) on May 18 held a rally in Taichung to mark the anniversary of President William Lai’s (賴清德) inauguration on May 20. The title of the rally could be loosely translated to “May 18 recall fraudulent goods” (518退貨ㄌㄨㄚˋ！). Unlike in English, where the terms are the same, “recall” (退貨) in this context refers to product recalls due to damaged, defective or fraudulent merchandise, not the political recalls (罷免) currently dominating the headlines. I attended the rally to determine if the impression was correct that the TPP under party Chairman Huang Kuo-Chang (黃國昌) had little of a
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
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