Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中), who has been smoking for 52 years, yesterday signed up for the Health Promotion Administration’s (HPA) smoking cessation competition to encourage other people to quit smoking.
The minister announced his decision and signed a registration form at a news conference held by the HPA and the John Tung Foundation in Taipei yesterday to promote this year’s program.
Chen, who is 69, said he started smoking when he was 17, and even when Chang Po-ya (張博雅), then-minister of the now-defunct department of health, asked him to be the convener of the smoking cessation competition, he
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It’s that time again where we turn back the clock by 10 years and revisit some of the more memorable dramas from a decade ago. This time, we’re turning the spotlight on another category of dramas that have stolen our hearts over the years dramas from Mainland China and Taiwan. Whether it’s the quintessential Taiwanese idol dramas, the big production Chinese period dramas, or all the variations in between, 2011 had plenty of big hits for the Mandarin-speakers (and the subtitle-readers).
For obvious reasons, we can’t list out all the dramas that premiered in 2011, so here is just a small sampling of nine that caught our eyes a decade ago and still have a place in our hearts today. Without further ado, let’s head down memory lane and say “Happy Birthday” to these 10-year-old dramas (in no particular order):