ENTERTAINMENT
Twice debuts music video
A new South Korean female pop group called Twice — one member of which is Taiwanese — released its first music video on Tuesday. The video of the upbeat Like OOH-AHH shows the nine-member group, including Taiwanese teenager Chou Tzu-yu (周子瑜), singing and dancing inside an abandoned building and bus, while zombies prowl around. The video received more than 1.1 million hits on YouTube less than 24 hours after its release. Members of the group were selected from the South Korean TV talent show Sixteen earlier this year. The show featured girls from different countries singing and dancing in a competition to become a member of Twice. The group was formed by JYP Entertainment, which manages several groups that are popular in Asia, including Wonder Girls and Miss A.
SOCIETY
Zoo to pay out over tooth
Kaohsiung Shoushan Zoo said it is accepting a woman’s claim for compensation after her tooth was broken when an elephant hurled a stone at her on Oct. 10. The zoo said that the 26-year-old woman complained to the zoo’s visitors’ center that her mouth was bleeding and her tooth was broken after being hit by the stone. Zoo officials said the zoo is insured against such incidents and has referred the case to its insurance company, which has yet to determine the amount of compensation to be awarded. The elephant, about 40-years-old, named Ali is quite active, according to the zoo, adding that from time to time Ali picks up stones and hurls them at visitors. The zoo said it has apologized to the visitor and set up a warning sign outside the elephants’ enclosure to warn visitors of the potential danger.
Taiwan is to receive the first batch of Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 jets from the US late this month, a defense official said yesterday, after a year-long delay due to a logjam in US arms deliveries. Completing the NT$247.2 billion (US$7.69 billion) arms deal for 66 jets would make Taiwan the third nation in the world to receive factory-fresh advanced fighter jets of the same make and model, following Bahrain and Slovakia, the official said on condition of anonymity. F-16 Block 70/72 are newly manufactured F-16 jets built by Lockheed Martin to the standards of the F-16V upgrade package. Republic of China
Taiwan-Japan Travel Passes are available for use on public transit networks in the two countries, Taoyuan Metro Corp said yesterday, adding that discounts of up to 7 percent are available. Taoyuan Metro, the Taipei MRT and Japan’s Keisei Electric Railway teamed up to develop the pass. Taoyuan Metro operates the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport MRT Line, while Keisei Electric Railway offers express services between Tokyo’s Narita Airport, and the Keisei Ueno and Nippori stations in the Japanese capital, as well as between Narita and Haneda airports. The basic package comprises one one-way ticket on the Taoyuan MRT Line and one Skyliner ticket on
EVERYONE’S ISSUE: Kim said that during a visit to Taiwan, she asked what would happen if China attacked, and was told that the global economy would shut down Taiwan is critical to the global economy, and its defense is a “here and now” issue, US Representative Young Kim said during a roundtable talk on Taiwan-US relations on Friday. Kim, who serves on the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee, held a roundtable talk titled “Global Ties, Local Impact: Why Taiwan Matters for California,” at Santiago Canyon College in Orange County, California. “Despite its small size and long distance from us, Taiwan’s cultural and economic importance is felt across our communities,” Kim said during her opening remarks. Stanford University researcher and lecturer Lanhee Chen (陳仁宜), lawyer Lin Ching-chi
A pro-Russia hacker group has launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the Taiwanese government in retaliation for President William Lai’s (賴清德) comments suggesting that China should have a territorial dispute with Russia, an information security company said today. The hacker group, NoName057, recently launched an HTTPs flood attack called “DDoSia” targeting Taiwanese government and financial units, Radware told the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times). Local tax bureaus in New Taipei City, Keelung, Hsinchu and Taoyuan were mentioned by the hackers. Only the Hsinchu Local Tax Bureau site appeared to be down earlier in the day, but was back
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