After being publicly spurned by Carina Lau (劉嘉玲), here at Pop Stop we thought we could take a long deserved rest from revealing the latest comings and goings in Terry Gou's (郭台銘) affairs of the heart and wallet. Alas, the media can't keep their hands of Taiwan's answer to Casanova who has been hitting the airwaves with a vengence. This time, the IT tycoon's past extramarital affair with a purported securities firm's employee named Chen Chung-mei (陳崇美) has left members of the public gob smacked.
The sordid tale broke when a private detective named Hsu Ching-wei (徐靖崴) told the media last Friday that he was fired by Chen after she had sought his help in "seeking justice" after Gou failed to deliver "compensation" of NT$5 million for their break-up.
According to Hsu, Gou and Chen had lived together from 1988 to 1992, but their relationship quickly deteriorated after Gou tried to ditch the mistress after his late wife returned to Taiwan from the US.
The then young woman turned into a goddess of vengeance, sending a Paris Hilton-style video of the pair in fagrante delicto and nude pictures of Gou to his family to prize money from the tycoon.
While the local media seem to side with Chen, portraying her as a poor woman blinded by love, the corporation chairman wheeled out the big guns in a damage control mission on Sunday. He said he knew Chen from a hostess bar and the pair had never cohabited.
And how about the private detective who claimed he just wanted to expose Gou's vice to the world? It turned out that Hsu had tried to blackmail the entrepreneur several times over the years, saying a bit of cash could turn him into Gou's "most obliged friend."
The moral of the story is two-fold: on the one hand, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially if the scorner has deep pockets. On the other, a diplomatic strategy may more easily secure some cash from your sugar daddy-turned-enemy.
As well as making teen girls hot, boy bands also help to turn up the economic heat, it has been revealed. F4 is estimated to boost the local tourism industry by seven percent as thousands of their fans descend on this country from Japan and South Korea to attend the F4 international fan club get-together, to be held at the National Taiwan University's (國立台灣大學) gymnasium on Sunday.
As the new spokesmen of the Tourism Bureau (觀光局), the foursome put on quite a show, horsing around, grabbing each other's buttocks and dutifully hawking several tourist destinations to their foreign devotees.
Hong Kong actress Rosamund Kwan (關之琳) made a rare trek to Kaohsiung last week for a TV commercial.
As expected, the well-preserved star looked as dashing as she did 20 years ago. But what the local media didn't see coming was the beauty's penchant for Hello Kitty. Booked into the presidential suite, the star demanded to move to a suit which contained a screaming pink room stuffed with images of the Japanese feline icon.
Kwan could be leaving it a little late in life to fake cute (裝可愛), after all, there are plenty of other objects a mature woman could lavish her attention on.
March 24 to March 30 When Yang Bing-yi (楊秉彝) needed a name for his new cooking oil shop in 1958, he first thought of honoring his previous employer, Heng Tai Fung (恆泰豐). The owner, Wang Yi-fu (王伊夫), had taken care of him over the previous 10 years, shortly after the native of Shanxi Province arrived in Taiwan in 1948 as a penniless 21 year old. His oil supplier was called Din Mei (鼎美), so he simply combined the names. Over the next decade, Yang and his wife Lai Pen-mei (賴盆妹) built up a booming business delivering oil to shops and
Indigenous Truku doctor Yuci (Bokeh Kosang), who resents his father for forcing him to learn their traditional way of life, clashes head to head in this film with his younger brother Siring (Umin Boya), who just wants to live off the land like his ancestors did. Hunter Brothers (獵人兄弟) opens with Yuci as the man of the hour as the village celebrates him getting into medical school, but then his father (Nolay Piho) wakes the brothers up in the middle of the night to go hunting. Siring is eager, but Yuci isn’t. Their mother (Ibix Buyang) begs her husband to let
The Taipei Times last week reported that the Control Yuan said it had been “left with no choice” but to ask the Constitutional Court to rule on the constitutionality of the central government budget, which left it without a budget. Lost in the outrage over the cuts to defense and to the Constitutional Court were the cuts to the Control Yuan, whose operating budget was slashed by 96 percent. It is unable even to pay its utility bills, and in the press conference it convened on the issue, said that its department directors were paying out of pocket for gasoline
For the past century, Changhua has existed in Taichung’s shadow. These days, Changhua City has a population of 223,000, compared to well over two million for the urban core of Taichung. For most of the 1684-1895 period, when Taiwan belonged to the Qing Empire, the position was reversed. Changhua County covered much of what’s now Taichung and even part of modern-day Miaoli County. This prominence is why the county seat has one of Taiwan’s most impressive Confucius temples (founded in 1726) and appeals strongly to history enthusiasts. This article looks at a trio of shrines in Changhua City that few sightseers visit.
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