Taiwan Entertainment News

TSMC, UMC report July sales, weakened by lagging demand Both foundries are bolstering for a rough Q3, as both expect sales to be lower than is seasonally expected. By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor -- Electronic News, 8/8/2008 Hsinchu, Taiwan-based...

MANILA (AFP) – A museum guard's quick work saved part of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection when huge floods devastated the nation's capital, its elderly curator said Thursday. The security man moved some of the 200...

In recent years, the Kinks frontman has lamented the indefinite hiatus of the band he led for decades, but as of late he's responded with renewed energy and ambition unknown to many of his surviving contemporaries from rock's original British...

The Government Information Office (GIO) is seeking opportunities to bring Taiwan's movie industry to the international stage. Taiwan-based filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's productions will screen at Asia Society in New York from Nov. 13 to 21. Featured movies will include “Face,”...

Nankuan music (南管) and Liyuan dance (梨園), one of the oldest Chinese music and dance styles, for the production. The chapter, based on an ancient panting “The Feast of Han Hsi-tsai” (韓熙載夜宴圖), tells the story of an Imperial official being...

A region of Taiwan that prides itself on puppetry, an art that originated centuries ago in China, lost 400 to 500 of its best pieces to a fire, leaving just one major stash, county officials said on Wednesday. The fire,...