Taiwan has ordered three mainland Chinese women – all married to Taiwanese men – to leave the island for advocating cross-strait unification by force, sparking criticism that the move was a violation of free speech. Liu Zhenya, a mainland Chinese influencer, has been given until Tuesday to leave the island or face deportation for promoting Beijing’s...
Taiwanese actress Ariel Lin is currently expecting her second child. Mirror Media reported today (March 19) that the 42-year-old, who was most recently seen in the award-winning drama Imperfect Us (2024), is five months pregnant. Ariel married businessman Charles Lin in 2014 after they met through mutual friends. She gave birth to their first child, a daughter, in...
Taiwanese former actor-singer Lee Wei and his wife, surnamed Chien, are suspects in the murder of a woman linked to a Buddhist group they followed. According to United Daily News, the 44-year-old was questioned as a witness by the prosecutors for the fourth time and his wife for the second on Monday (Feb 24), before being...
Taiwanese actress and singer Barbie Hsu has tragically passed away just days before what would have been her third wedding anniversary. Hsu, who died at the age of 48 due to complications from influenza, married her former boyfriend – South Korean singer Koo Jun-yup (also known as DJ Koo) – on Feb 8, 2022. The couple rekindled...
SINGAPORE: Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu, star of the seminal idol drama Meteor Garden (2001), has died at the age of 48. The news was confirmed on Feb 3 in a statement sent out to Taiwanese media by her family via her younger sister, famed Taiwanese host Dee Hsu, 46. According to Taiwanese news outlet Star ETToday, the...
Taiwanese singer and activist Panai called on June 29 at one of the most prestigious entertainment events in the Chinese-speaking world for people not to forget China's bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square. Chinese artists in recent years have largely stayed away from Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards given renewed tension between democratically-governed Taiwan...
In appreciation of Singapore fans, Taiwanese rock band Mayday has donated $200,000 to Singapore special education school My Inspiring Journey (MIJ) Hub. The band, which consists of members Monster, Ashin, Stone, Masa and Ming, and celebrates their 25th anniversary this year, announced this in a press release today (June 26). MIJ Hub is a non-profit organisation that...
Music can get you through some pretty tough times, high school included. Taiwanese host-singer Matilda Tao's daughter Lillian Lee recently graduated from high school in the United States, and the proud mum shared photos from the graduation ceremony and the after-party back in Taiwan on Instagram yesterday (June 5). In one of the photos, Lillian's yearbook can...
Taiwanese actor Aaron Yan was given a seven-month suspended prison sentence for filming and leaking intimate videos of then-minor influencer Raku. In its verdict on Thursday (May 30), the Shilin District Court determined that Yan, 39, had recorded sex tapes with a minor with an intention of distributing them. In lieu of his prison sentence, Yan has...
After six months of court hearings and investigation, the sexual allegations case between Aaron Yan and his ex-boyfriend, internet celebrity Yao Le, has reached a verdict. According to Taiwanese reports today (May 30), the 38-year-old singer-actor, who was a member of the boy band Fahrenheit, was slapped with a seven-month suspended jail term and three-year probation...
