While many young designers focus on creating new products, one Taiwanese designer is concerned with another issue -- the fact that many specialized traditional skills are fast disappearing in Taiwan. 

Richard Chang no longer plays basketball for a living, but he carries his hoop memories with him everywhere -- on an iPhone. 

Los Angeles, Sept. 1 (CNA) Taiwanese director Josh Chiang, who was nominated for Best Director in this year's Seoul International Drama Awards, said Wednesday that he was very surprised to be nominated for an award at the international TV festival. 

As the elderly woman got out of a car at a parking lot near the Liang-shean Tang Foundation complex in Puli township, she was greeted with shouts of "Grandma, Grandma" from a group of teenagers waiting nearby for shuttle bus to take them to night school. 

Taipei, Aug. 30 (CNA) Canadian TV host Bob Blumer broke the Guinness World Record for eating 134 grains of rice in three minutes in Taipei on Monday, the seventh world record he has set in various food-related challenges. 

Despite his slender and fragile body, Liu Yun-guo has a brave heart. At 79, he is keenly aware of and amused by the fact that his life is fatefully linked to English, English news-writing and Chinese-English dictionary compilation. 

Los Angeles, Aug. 26 (CNA) A Taiwanese-American couple have recently returned from a daring 82-day, 41,843-km round-the-globe flight, becoming the first people of Chinese descent in history to successfully fly a single-engine aircraft around the world. 

Taipei, Aug. 26 (CNA) A student from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) has won a "best of the best" prize in the communication category of the 2010 red dot design award -- the world's largest and most prestigious design competition, the university said Thursday. 

When a pianist playing Schumann's classical music shares a stage with a musician playing traditional Chinese Nanguan songs, what kind of new excitement will be generated? 

A man who closely resembles late President Chiang Kai-shek has become Taiwan's secret weapon with the Chinese communists -- not in fighting them as did the generalissimo but in getting them to visit Taiwan on vacation. 

Distant memories of the Pacific War and the deaths of fellow child-workers and comrades still bring tears to the eyes of Lee Hsueh-feng and Lin Teh-hwa, two of more than 200,000 Taiwanese directly involved in World War II. 

Singapore, Aug. 16 (CNA) Taiwan tenor Fernando Wang won the first Singapore International Vocal Competition Sunday, beating out 149 competitors. 

Paris, Aug. 15 (CNA) Lin Chia-wei, an outstanding young Taiwanese guitarist, bagged yet another prize with his second-place win Saturday in the 4th Iserlohn International Guitar Competition in Germany. 

Los Angeles, Aug. 10 (CNA) Taiwanese singing sensation Lin Yu-chun met Grammy Award-winning record producer-songwriter Walter Afanasieff Tuesday and gave the first public performance of a song the latter wrote for him. 

London, Aug. 9 (CNA) Taiwan-born fashion designer Mei Hui Liu showcased designs featuring Union Jack flags and vintage lace in an east London exhibition on Monday, attracting many long-term fans.