Taiwanese crime thriller claims 3 top Golden Horse awards

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Taiwanese crime thriller claims 3 top Golden Horse awards

2017-11-28 10:39 Last Updated At：10:39

Taiwanese crime thriller "The Bold, The Corrupt, The Beautiful" claimed three top Golden Horse movie awards, including best feature film.

Veteran Hong Kong actress Kara Wei said on stage that her best actress win for the film fulfilled a wish. Her co-star, 14-year-old Vicky Chen, became the youngest best supporting actress winner for her role in the film by Taiwanese director Yang Ya-che.

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Chinese actor Tu Men, left, kisses Hong Kong actress Kara Wai's hand with their awards for media for Best Leading actor and Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. The Golden Horse awards are the Chinese-language film industry's biggest annual events. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Taiwanese crime thriller "The Bold, The Corrupt, The Beautiful" claimed three top Golden Horse movie awards, including best feature film.

Chinese director Vivian Qu holds her awards and poses for media for Best The Best Director at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. Qu won for the film "Angels Wear White" at this year's Golden Horse Awards -the Chinese-language film industry's biggest annual events.(AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

Veteran Hong Kong actress Kara Wei said on stage that her best actress win for the film fulfilled a wish. Her co-star, 14-year-old Vicky Chen, became the youngest best supporting actress winner for her role in the film by Taiwanese director Yang Ya-che.

Chinese actor Tu Men holds his awards and poses for media for Best The Best Leading Actor at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. .(AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

China's Vivian Qu won the best director award for the dark drama "Angels Wear White," which addressed the theme of child sexual assault.

Taiwanese actor Chung Kai-hsun arrives at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. Chung is nominated for Best Leading Actor for the film "Who Killed Cock Robin" at this year's Golden Horse Awards -one of the Chinese-language film industry's biggest annual events. (AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

China's Tu Men credited luck for being named best leading actor for his role as a bankrupt businessman in the film "Old Beast."

Taiwanese actor Chung Kai-hsun arrives at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

The black-and-white film about two people who discover their boss's dark secret from a car dashboard camera's footage shows the struggles of the underclass and exposes political corruption.

Chinese actor Tu Men arrives at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. Tu is nominated for Best Leading Actor for the film "Old Beast" at this year's Golden Horse Awards -one of the Chinese-language film industry's biggest annual events. (AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

Chinese actor Tu Men arrives at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

Chinese actor Tu Men, left, and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards and pose for media for Best Leading actor and Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Hong Kong actress Kara Wai holds her awards and poses for media for Best The Best Leading Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Chinese actor Tu Men, left, and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards and pose for media for Best Leading actor and Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Billy Dai)

Taiwanese actress Vicky Chen, from left, director Yang Ya Che and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Feature Film and Best Leading Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/ Chiang Ying-ying)

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Taiwanese crime thriller "The Bold, The Corrupt, The Beautiful" claimed three top Golden Horse movie awards, including best feature film.

Veteran Hong Kong actress Kara Wei said on stage that her best actress win for the film fulfilled a wish. Her co-star, 14-year-old Vicky Chen, became the youngest best supporting actress winner for her role in the film by Taiwanese director Yang Ya-che.

China's Vivian Qu won the best director award for the dark drama "Angels Wear White," which addressed the theme of child sexual assault.

China's Tu Men credited luck for being named best leading actor for his role as a bankrupt businessman in the film "Old Beast."

The black-and-white film about two people who discover their boss's dark secret from a car dashboard camera's footage shows the struggles of the underclass and exposes political corruption.

Chinese actor Tu Men arrives at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. Tu is nominated for Best Leading Actor for the film "Old Beast" at this year's Golden Horse Awards -one of the Chinese-language film industry's biggest annual events. (AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

Chinese actor Tu Men arrives at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

Chinese actor Tu Men, left, and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards and pose for media for Best Leading actor and Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Hong Kong actress Kara Wai holds her awards and poses for media for Best The Best Leading Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Chinese actor Tu Men, left, and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards and pose for media for Best Leading actor and Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Billy Dai)

Taiwanese actress Vicky Chen, from left, director Yang Ya Che and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Feature Film and Best Leading Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/ Chiang Ying-ying)

China's Vivian Qu won the best director award for the dark drama "Angels Wear White," which addressed the theme of child sexual assault.

"I am really happy, because this movie talks about social problems. And I think nothing is more important than (that) this movie reaches its audiences," she said in accepting the award at Saturday's ceremony.

China's Tu Men credited luck for being named best leading actor for his role as a bankrupt businessman in the film "Old Beast."

Five Golden Horse awards, the Chinese-language equivalent of the Oscars, went to the black comedy, "The Great Buddha." Taiwanese director Huang Hsin-yao was named best new director and the film was also honored for best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best original film score and best original film song.

The black-and-white film about two people who discover their boss's dark secret from a car dashboard camera's footage shows the struggles of the underclass and exposes political corruption.

$8 billion US military aid package to Taiwan will 'boost confidence' in region: president-elect

2024-04-23 17:45 Last Updated At：17:50

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A $8 billion defense package approved by the U.S. House of Representatives over the weekend will “strengthen the deterrence against authoritarianism in the West Pacific ally chain,” Taiwan’s President-elect Lai Ching-te said Tuesday, in a reference to key rival China.

The funding will also “help ensure peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and also boost confidence in the region” Lai, currently Taiwan’s vice president, told visiting Michigan Representatives Lisa McClain, a Republican, and Democrat Dan Kildee at a meeting at the Presidential Office Building in the capital Taipei.

In the face of “authoritarian expansionism,” Taiwan is “determined to safeguard democracy and also safeguard our homeland," Lai said.

Also known as William Lai, U.S.-educated former medical researcher is despised by Beijing for his opposition to political unification with the mainland. In recent elections, the pro-unification Nationalists won a narrow majority in the legislature, but their influence on foreign policy and other national issues remains limited.

The Senate will vote Tuesday on $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

The package covers a wide range of parts and services aimed at maintaining and and upgrading Taiwan's military hardware. Separately, Taiwan has signed billions in contracts with the U.S. for latest-generation F-16V fighter jets, M1 Abrams main battle tanks and the HIMARS rocket system, which the U.S. has also supplied to Ukraine.

Taiwan has also been expanding its own defense industry, building submarines and trainer jets. Next month it plans to commission its third and fourth domestically designed and built stealth corvettes to counter the Chinese navy. as part of a strategy of asymmetrical warfare in which a smaller force counters its larger opponent by using cutting edge or nonconventional tactics and weaponry.

Lai, of the pro-independence ruling Democratic Progressive Party, won the January election handily and takes over next month from President Tsai Ing-wen, whom Beijing has sought to isolate for the past eight years.

China is determined to annex the island, which it considers its own territory, by force if necessary and has been advertising that threat with daily incursions into waters and air space around Taiwan by navy ships and warplanes. It has also sought to pick away Taiwan's few remaining formal diplomatic partners.

While Washington and Taipei have no formal diplomatic ties in deference to Beijing, McClain emphasized the need for the entire world to observe the strength of the relationship.

“Peace is our goal. But to do that, we have to have relationships and we value your relationship. Not only militarily, but economically,” she said.

Kildee said the timing of the visit was especially significant given the recent passage of the funding bill to “provide very important support to insure security in this region.”

"It’s important for the people of Taiwan, it’s important for the people in the United States, it’s important for the entire world,” Kildee said.

Taiwanese crime thriller claims 3 top Golden Horse awards

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Taiwanese crime thriller claims 3 top Golden Horse awards

Taiwanese crime thriller "The Bold, The Corrupt, The Beautiful" claimed three top Golden Horse movie awards, including best feature film.

Veteran Hong Kong actress Kara Wei said on stage that her best actress win for the film fulfilled a wish. Her co-star, 14-year-old Vicky Chen, became the youngest best supporting actress winner for her role in the film by Taiwanese director Yang Ya-che.

China's Vivian Qu won the best director award for the dark drama "Angels Wear White," which addressed the theme of child sexual assault.

China's Tu Men credited luck for being named best leading actor for his role as a bankrupt businessman in the film "Old Beast."

The black-and-white film about two people who discover their boss's dark secret from a car dashboard camera's footage shows the struggles of the underclass and exposes political corruption.

Chinese actor Tu Men arrives at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. Tu is nominated for Best Leading Actor for the film "Old Beast" at this year's Golden Horse Awards -one of the Chinese-language film industry's biggest annual events. (AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

Chinese actor Tu Men arrives at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

Chinese actor Tu Men, left, and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards and pose for media for Best Leading actor and Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Hong Kong actress Kara Wai holds her awards and poses for media for Best The Best Leading Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Chinese actor Tu Men, left, and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards and pose for media for Best Leading actor and Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Billy Dai)

Taiwanese actress Vicky Chen, from left, director Yang Ya Che and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Feature Film and Best Leading Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/ Chiang Ying-ying)

Taiwanese crime thriller "The Bold, The Corrupt, The Beautiful" claimed three top Golden Horse movie awards, including best feature film.

Veteran Hong Kong actress Kara Wei said on stage that her best actress win for the film fulfilled a wish. Her co-star, 14-year-old Vicky Chen, became the youngest best supporting actress winner for her role in the film by Taiwanese director Yang Ya-che.

China's Vivian Qu won the best director award for the dark drama "Angels Wear White," which addressed the theme of child sexual assault.

China's Tu Men credited luck for being named best leading actor for his role as a bankrupt businessman in the film "Old Beast."

The black-and-white film about two people who discover their boss's dark secret from a car dashboard camera's footage shows the struggles of the underclass and exposes political corruption.

Chinese actor Tu Men arrives at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. Tu is nominated for Best Leading Actor for the film "Old Beast" at this year's Golden Horse Awards -one of the Chinese-language film industry's biggest annual events. (AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

Chinese actor Tu Men arrives at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/ Billy Dai)

Chinese actor Tu Men, left, and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards and pose for media for Best Leading actor and Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Hong Kong actress Kara Wai holds her awards and poses for media for Best The Best Leading Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Chinese actor Tu Men, left, and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards and pose for media for Best Leading actor and Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Billy Dai)

Taiwanese actress Vicky Chen, from left, director Yang Ya Che and Hong Kong actress Kara Wai hold their awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Feature Film and Best Leading Actress at the 54th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/ Chiang Ying-ying)

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