Category: Arts & Culture

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January 10, 2023 No Responses

Bill to deter house flippers, speculators clears legislative floor

The Legislative Yuan has passed revisions aimed at curbing speculation in the property market, including the introduction of a repeatable NT$50 million (US$1.64 million) fine for market manipulators, to bring down Taiwan's high housing prices.The amend...
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November 27, 2022 No Responses

Legislative speaker visits Japan for trade,cultural exchanges

Taiwan’s Legislative Speaker You Si-kun (游錫堃) led a delegation to visit Japan on Sunday, hoping to boost trade, cultural, and parliamentary ties during a five-day trip, sources familiar with the matter said. On the invitation of the Asia Taiwanese ...
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November 20, 2022 No Responses

Golden Horse Awards: Sylvia Chang keeps best actress honors in Taiwan

Taiwanese actress Sylvia Chang (張艾嘉) was named best leading actress at the Golden Horse Awards for the third time on Saturday, beating out a fellow Taiwanese, as well as Hong Kong, Singaporean, and Chinese contenders to keep the award at...
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November 19, 2022 No Responses

Golden Horse Awards: Hong Kong’s Anthony Wong wins best leading actor

Anthony Wong (黃秋生) of Hong Kong won best leading actor honors at the Golden Horse Awards on Saturday for his performance as a taxi driver in “The Sunny Side of the Street (白日青春 ).” Wong’s character in the movie is...
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November 19, 2022 No Responses

Golden Horse Awards: Cinematographer, director receive lifetime achievement awards

Director Chang Chao-tang (張照堂), known for his contributions to Taiwan’s documentary filmmaking, and cinematographer Lai Cheng-ying (賴成英), a pioneer in the development of local color cinema, received Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 59th Gol...
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November 18, 2022 No Responses

Limbo wins Golden Horse audience award

Hong Kong film noir “Limbo” (智齒) won the non-competition Golden Horse Audience Choice Award in Taipei Friday night. The film’s second lead Mason Lee (李淳) and producer Kevin Tse (謝國豪) accepted the award on behalf of the cast and ...
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November 10, 2022 No Responses

Farewell ceremony to be held in Kyiv in honor of fallen Taiwanese combatant

The Ukrainian military will hold a farewell ceremony in Kyiv to honor Tseng Sheng-guang (曾聖光), a Taiwanese man who died fighting for Ukraine last week. “He proved himself as a disciplined, balanced, brave warrior,” Vasylyna Nakonechna, a pres...
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October 10, 2022 No Responses

PHOTO ESSAY/National Day celebrations, 2022

The Republic of China (Taiwan) celebrates its 111th National Day on Monday, and several warmup events have been held at home and abroad.   On Monday, the National Day celebrations began with a series of perfromances in front of the...
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