Posts tagged taiwan
Upcoming Movie: The Treasure Hunter (Indiana Jones-style)
Oct 26th
I’m so gonna watch The Treasure Hunter, not because of Jay, but Lin Chiling. Are you going?
Starring two of Taiwan’s hottest stars in Jay Chou and Lin Chiling, The Treasure Hunter tells the tale of a pair of lovers who accidentally fall into a time passage and find themselves in Mongolia, and go on to fight for a treasure inside Genghis Khan’s tomb.
Filmed at a budget of 400 million New Taiwan dollars(S$21 million), fans and film buffs alike can expect an adrenaline-packed flick against a riveting historical backdrop and breath-taking cinematography.
OPENS: December 31
DIRECTOR: Kevin Chu (of Slam Dunk fame)
CAST: Jay Chou, Lin Chiling, Chen Daoming, Eric Tsang, Mao Pu, River Chen
Source: MSN Entertainment
APCN2 cable cut cripples connections
Aug 15th
A cut in the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea submarine cable crippled connection speeds for users in the Asia-Pacific region on Wednesday, particularly in Singapore and the Philippines.
Users were sending updates to local forums and Twitter, complaining of slow connection speeds to sites hosted outside of the region.
According to a notice sent by Malaysian telco, TM Net, the cable fault was traced to segment 7 of the APCN2, which stretches between Shantou, China and Tanshui, Taiwan. TM Net traced the outage to Typhoon Morakot, which hit the region over the weekend.
Additionally, segment 1 of the APCN2 is also currently under repair. Repairs on segment 7 are expected to commence after work on segment 1 is completed.
TM Net said the repairs are expected to be completed by late evening Aug. 13.
Singapore operator, SingTel, confirmed the cable fault in an e-mail to ZDNet Asia, saying the APCN2’s consortium members have started restoration works and are diverting Internet traffic to other cable systems. It said the situation is expected to return to “acceptable levels” within the next 24 hours.
A status update posted on InternetTrafficReport.com showed SingTel’s Singapore gateway registered a score of only 34 points, compared to the global average “health” of network connections, which was 86 points as at 3pm Singapore time on Wednesday.
The site first started registering slower response times and packet loss in Singapore at 8pm Tuesday evening.
Cable & Wireless sent ZDNet Asia a status update at 6pm, Singapore time, noting multiple cable breaks have been also detected along the EAC (East Asia Crossing) and SMW 3 (South-East-Asia, Middle-East, Western-Europe) subsea cable networks, in addition to the APCN2.
These breaks have been concentrated specifically near Taiwan, with network traffic “adversely affected in and out of the region as a result,” said the operator.
Back in 2006, the APCN2 was taken out by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan. Internet access was reportedly badly disrupted and halted in some parts of Asia after the quake.
Source: ZDNet Asia
Taiwanese University Opens Porn Course
Jan 22nd
A university in Taiwan has opened a course to teach students how to appreciate and analyse porn movies.
The Mass Communication Department of Providence University opened the course this semester, reports United Daily News.
To pass the course, students must give a 15 minute presentation in which they analyse an audience’s psychological reaction to a porn clip from an academic perspective.
One worried student, who did not wish to be named, commented: “If I get a very good score in this course, I don’t know how I’ll explain it to my parents.”
When registering for the voluntary course, students signed a paper agreeing that if the scenes were too explicit, they could choose to leave the classroom
The teacher, assistant professor Miss Chen Mingmei, said no students had ever left her class but some would briefly cover their eyes during the stronger scenes.
More than 50 students registered for the course, and most of them confessed that they had watched porn videos before.
Curiosity was given as the main reason for taking the course and most admitted their parents did not know what they were studying.
Another student admitted: “I am really worried my parents will see the score report when it is mailed home. I won?t know what to say if I get a high score
“However if I fail the course, I can speak to my parents and suggest that maybe I should watch more porn.”
