French music fans are being urged to participate in a music event in Paris on Jan. 30, which will showcase Taiwanese artists, including pop diva Jolin Tsai (蔡依林), organizers said yesterday.
The Taiwan Night concert, scheduled to take place at Le Trianon, is part of Taiwan’s efforts to promote its music at the Marche International du Disque et de l’Edition Musicale (MIDEM), the world’s largest music industry trade fair.
Tsai and singer-songwriter William Wei (韋禮安) will be performing and Yen and Z of the electronic band Salamander (沙羅曼蛇) will remix songs by artists who have won Taiwan’s Golden Melody Awards and Golden Indie Music Awards, said Great Capital Artist, which was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture to organize the event.
In response to fans’ concerns over ticket prices, Great Capital Artist said that as a result of the past successes of Taiwan Night concerts, a much larger venue had been booked for this year.
The concert is also expected to be more innovative than in the past, it said, urging music lovers to attend the event.
A Taiwan booth will also be set up at the event to display albums that have won music awards in Taiwan, and seven Taiwanese music companies will participate in the fair, buying and selling music copyrights, the organizers said.
MIDEM, which attracts thousands of musicians, producers, and managers each year, will take place from Saturday until Jan. 29 in Cannes.
Taiwanese rock band Mayday (五月天) performed at the fair in January last year.
An exhibition demonstrating the rejuvenation of the indigenous Kuskus Village in Pingtung County’s Mudan Township (牡丹) opened at the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency’s conservation station in Taipei on Thursday. Agency Director-General Lin Hwa-ching (林華慶) said they have been promoting the use and development of forestry resources to local indigenous residents for eight years to drive regional revitalization. While modern conservation approaches mostly stem from western scientific research, eco-friendly knowledge and skills passed down through generations of indigenous people, who have lived in Taiwan for centuries, could be more suitable for the environment, he said. The agency’s Pingtung branch Director-General Yang Jui-fen (楊瑞芬)
Traffic controls are to be in place in Taipei starting tonight, police said, as rallies supporting recall efforts targeting the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers as well as a rally organized by the KMT opposing the recall campaigns are to take place tomorrow. Traffic controls are to be in place on City Hall Road starting from 10pm tonight and on Jinan Road Section 1 starting from 8am tomorrow, police said. Recall campaign groups in Taipei and New Taipei advocating for the recall of KMT legislators, along with the Safeguard Taiwan, Anti-Communist Alliance (反共護台聯盟), have previously announced plans for motorcycle parades and public
A tropical depression near the northwestern Philippines is expected to strengthen into Tropical Storm Danas by early tomorrow, becoming the fourth tropical storm of the season, according to the Central Weather Administration (CWA). As of 8am today, the system was located approximately 370 kilometers southwest of Taiwan's southern tip, Cape Eluanbi, and has developed a more organized structure, forecaster Lee Meng-hsuan (李孟軒) said. The storm is currently moving slowly toward the Taiwan Strait in an east-northeast direction and may trigger a sea warning if it reaches tropical storm strength tomorrow morning. The system is expected to shift direction later tomorrow toward the north
‘ON THE RIGHT TRACK’: US analysts praised the ‘less scripted’ drills as strengthening defenses and resilience, as confusion and spontaneity are common in actual warfare This month’s annual Han Kuang military exercises are to feature six types of “gray zone” tactics used by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with the aim of weakening their effectiveness, Chief of the General Staff Admiral Mei Chia-shu (梅家樹) told the military yesterday. The 41st Han Kuang drills, scheduled from Wednesday next week through July 18, would simulate a Chinese blockade and invasion, with President William Lai (賴清德) on Tuesday saying that Taiwan is already in a “war without gun smoke.” In a speech broadcast to officers and soldiers yesterday, Mei said that the six types of harassment are: legal warfare,
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