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Troy Liu
Troy Liu Tzu-Chuan (; born 30 January 2003) is a Taiwanese actor best known for starring in the drama film ''The Silent Forest'' (2020), which earned him an IFFI Best Actor Award (Male), IFFI Best Actor Award in the 51st International Film Festival of India. Biography Liu was born on 30 January 2003, in Taiwan. He is the son of Taiwanese actor and actress Chen Jin (actress), Chen Jin. Liu wasn't interested in acting when he was young. However, film director Chen Wei-ling (director), Chen Wei-ling, a friend of Renzo Liu, discovered his talents and encouraged Liu to participate in school dramas. After several performances in junior high school, Liu became fond of acting and Chen invited him to star in her television series ''On Children'' in 2018 when Liu was 14. In 2020, Liu auditioned and won his breakout role as Chang Chen in the drama film ''The Silent Forest'', a hearing-impaired student at a special school who discovered a fellow female student being gang-raped and sexually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the China, People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. It has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its Urbanization by country, highly urbanized population is concentrated. The combined Free area of the Republic of China, territories under ROC control consist of list of islands of Taiwan, 168 islands in total covering . The Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, largest metropolitan area is formed by Taipei (the capital), New Taipei City, and Keelung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated countries. Tai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (website)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by '' The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In addition to ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwanese Film Actors
Taiwanese may refer to: * of or related to Taiwan **Culture of Taiwan **Geography of Taiwan ** Taiwanese cuisine *Languages of Taiwan ** Formosan languages ** Taiwanese Hokkien, also known as the Taiwanese language * Taiwanese people, residents of Taiwan or people of Taiwanese descent ** Taiwanese indigenous peoples, or Formosan peoples, formerly called Taiwanese aborigines ** Han Taiwanese, Taiwanese people of full or partial ethnic Han descent *** Hoklo Taiwanese, Taiwanese people of full or partial ethnic Hoklo descent See also * * Formosan * Taiwanese language (other) Taiwanese language is a name for Taiwanese Hokkien. Taiwanese language may also refer to: * Formosan languages, languages of the indigenous and aboriginal peoples of Taiwan * Taiwanese Hakka, Hakka language in Taiwan * Taiwanese Mandarin, Standar ... * Republic of China (other) {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Taiwanese Actors
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Living People
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2003 Births
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SET News
SET News (SETN; ) is a 24-hour news channel of the Sanlih E-Television in Taiwan, launched in March 1998. SET News and sister channel SET iNews are considered media outlets leaning towards the Pan-Green coalition. SET News is available on YouTube with its Digital on-screen graphic, DOG reading ''Sanlih LIVE Hsinwen'' (). Since April 2022, this stream is available only outside Taiwan, a move also made by competitors EBC News and TVBS apparently because of dissatisfaction of the cable operators; SET replaced it with a non-geoblocked stream of sister channel SET iNews labeled as ''Sanlih+'' (三立+). See also *SET iNews (sister channel launched as SET Finance in 2011) References External linksSET News official website 1998 establishments in Taiwan Television channels and stations established in 1998 24-hour television news channels in Taiwan Television news in Taiwan Sanlih E-Television {{taiwan-tv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Victims' Game
''The Victims' Game'' is a Taiwanese television series on Netflix starring Joseph Chang, Ann Hsu and Jason Wang. The plot revolves around the forensic scientist with Asperger syndrome Fang Yi-jen (Joseph Chang) and the investigative journalist Hsu Hai-yin ( Ann Hsu), investigating a case involving Fang Yi-jen's daughter. Season 2 was announced in September 2020 and premiered on June 21, 2024. Cast * Joseph Chang as Fang Yi-Jen ** Peter Tseng as Fang Yi-Jen (age 18) * Hsu Wei-ning as Hsu Hai-Yin * Shih-hsien Wang as Chao Cheng-Kuan * Ruby Lin as Li Ya-Jun (season 1) * River Huang as Yu Cheng-Hao (season 1) * Moon Lee as Chiang Hsiao-Meng, Fang Yi-Jen's daughter ** Nini Weng as Chiang Hsiao-Meng (age 7) (season 1) * Ning Ding as Su Ko-Yun (season 1) * Chia-Kuei Chen as Chang Tsung-Chien (season 1) * Rexen Cheng as Chuang Ping-Yao (season 1) * Joseph Hsia as Liu Kuang-Yung (season 1) ** Chia-En Yang as Liu Kuang-Yung (age 17) (season 1) * Zhang-xing Chang as Liao * Sheng-te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahoo! News
Yahoo News (stylized as Yahoo! News) is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo. The site was created by Yahoo software engineer Brad Clawsie in August 1996. Articles originally came from news services such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Fox News, Al Jazeera, ABC News, ''USA Today'', CNN and BBC News. In 2000, Yahoo News launched pages tracking the content on the site that was most viewed and most shared by email. The "most emailed" page in particular was noted as an innovation in online news aggregation. Yahoo News allows users to comment on articles. Between late 2006 and early 2010, comments were disabled in part due to moderation challenges. By 2011, Yahoo had expanded its focus to include original content, as part of its plans to become a major media organization. Veteran journalists (including Walter Shapiro and Virginia Heffernan) were hired, while the website had a correspondent in the White House press corps for the first ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pig, The Snake And The Pigeon
''The Pig, The Snake and The Pigeon'' ( zh, t=周處除三害, link=no) is a 2023 Taiwanese black comedy action thriller film directed and written by Hong Kong director Wong Ching-po. Starring Ethan Juan, Ben Yuen, Chen Yi-wen, Gingle Wang, Lee Lee-zen, and Cherry Hsieh, the film revolves around a dying and fame-seeking hitman (Juan) who endeavoured to eliminate the country's two most wanted criminals (Yuen and Chen) before his own demise. The film was theatrically released on 6 October 2023, in Taiwan. It received 7 nominations in the 60th Golden Horse Awards and 13 nominations in the 26th Taipei Film Awards, with Ethan Juan and Lee Lee-zen winning Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively in the latter. Plot Chen Kui-lin, a notorious hitman in Taiwan, infiltrates a funeral and shoots down a high-ranking gang boss. Police detective Chen Hui is surveiling the funeral, and spots Kui-lin fleeing the scene. Chen Hui pursues him and the two engage in a fight, but Kui-li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Daily News
''United Daily News'' (UDN; ) is a newspaper published in Taiwan. It is considered to support the pan-Blue Coalition in its editorials. History UDN was founded in 1951 by Wang Tiwu as a merger of three newspapers, ''Popular Daily'' (全民日報), ''National'' (民族報), and the ''Economic Times'' (經濟時報). The three newspapers formally merged in 1953. The newspaper is owned by Wang Tiwu's daughter, Wang Shaw-lan. UDN is the flagship newspaper of the United Daily News Group which is chaired by Duncan Wang. The evening edition of the paper, the ''United Evening News'', was first published on February 22, 1968. By August 2014, the circulation of ''United Daily News'' had passed 1 million copies. The evening paper shut down after publishing its final issue on June 1, 2020. Editorial stance The ''United Daily News'' has traditionally been close to the conservative wing of the Kuomintang. Before Taiwan democratized, it was an opponent of political reform; in the years sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirror Media
Mirror Media () is a Taiwanese media company. It was founded in 2016 as an eponymous tabloid magazine, and also owns the subsidiaries , , , Mirror Voice (鏡好聽) and MBRAVO (鏡采創意). Background Pei Wei was chief editor and publisher of the Taiwanese edition of '' Next Magazine''. During his tenure as editor, Pei was credited with the growth of ''Next Magazine''. A number of articles published in the magazine during his editorship resulted in legal action against ''Next'', as well as Pei personally. A 2002 report on allegations of embezzlement within the National Security Bureau resulted in a raid of company offices. For reports on the personal lives of politicians published within ''Next Magazine'', Pei has been subject to lawsuits alleging libel and defamation. Mirror Media was founded in 2016, with Pei leading a group of former ''Next Magazine'' employees. Mirror Media subsequently became the main competitor of ''Next Magazine''. Television , a subsidiary of Mirror Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
