Dishing with Chris Lee is welcoming a new season and a foreign guest. Taiwanese singer-host Tony Sun, who shot to fame as a member of the boy band 5566, told 8world in a recent interview that being on the variety talk show with Christopher Lee was a "great honour". The 45-year-old added that the first time he went abroad...
BEIJING: President Xi Jinping (pic) vowed on Tuesday (Dec 26) to resolutely prevent anyone from "splitting Taiwan from China in any way", the official Xinhua news agency reported, a little more than two weeks before Taiwan elects a new leader. China views democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory, despite the strong objections of the government in...
HSINCHU/LONGTAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Wearing rain ponchos and holding photos of their ancestral temples near Hsinchu, Taiwan's semiconductor capital, 40 residents braved lashing winds in early October to protest plans to take their rural land for cutting-edge chip production. Two weeks later, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, dropped plans to...
Do you agree with him? The controversial star was asked to rank popular holiday destinations in Asia in terms of food, sightseeing, traffic, safety and friendliness of the people. If you didn’t know, Malaysian star Namewee, 40, known for his outspokenness and controversial social commentaries, has a YouTube channel with a name that would make our mums smack us for saying...
A 21-year-old undergraduate in Taiwan died after being struck by a 30kg air-conditioning unit that fell from the 17th floor of a building on July 20. The student surnamed Huang from National Chengchi University was waiting at a bus stop near Xinpu MRT Station in Banqiao district when the tragedy struck, reported Taiwan News. A video circulating...
Nono is the latest Taiwanese celebrity to be caught in the country's #MeToo movement after actor Chris Wang, hosts Jeffery Hsu and Mickey Huang and singer-actor Aaron Yan apologised for their past actions. After allegations were made against the 52-year-old host on Monday (June 19), a new accuser took to social media on Tuesday morning outlining Nono's alleged sexual abuse...
Just when you thought that Mickey Huang's sexual allegations and shocking revelations about multiple Taiwanese big names and their wrongdoings is enough for you to digest for a while, here comes another wave of fresh revelations. This time, it is Taiwanese singer-actor Aaron Yan who's in the spotlight. Internet celebrity Yao Le held a press conference in Taipei at...
Ex-Fahrenheit member, Aaron Yan (炎亞綸), was accused by his former lover of filming their sex video, which was eventually leaked online. Male influencer, Yao Le (耀樂), said he was only 16 years old when he gave his first time to Aaron in 2018 and was filmed unknowingly against his wishes. Breaking his silence, Aaron issued a lengthy apology for hurting him in...
After Mickey Huang (黃子佼) and Chris Wang (王宥勝) admitted to sexual harassment claims, idol and ex-Fahrenheit member, Aaron Yan (炎亞綸) is the third celebrity to be under fire. A male influencer, Yao Le (耀樂), accused Aaron of filming their sex video in 2018 when he was only 16 years old. When the sex tape was leaked in 2018, Yao Le stopped his studies for three years...
The #MeToo movement rocked the Taiwanese entertainment industry this week, as victims poured out accounts of sexual harassment suffered under host Mickey Huang (黃子佼), 51, and actor Taiwanese celebrities Chris Wang (宥勝), 41. The former was accused for forcibly kissing and taking topless photos of a 17-year-old, while the latter was exposed for assaulting two female ex-employees at his...
