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AsiaOne
06-08-2025
- Entertainment
- AsiaOne
Taiwanese actor Greg Hsu completes military service, returns to showbiz, Entertainment News
Taiwanese heartthrob Greg Hsu has been discharged from military service today (Aug 6). The 34-year-old actor, who enlisted for his mandatory military service last August, was seen head-to-toe in black as he exited the Department of Conscription Administration building in Nantou county to waiting fans and reporters. Addressing the media, he thanked everyone who had gone specially to welcome him. Greg, who shot to fame in Taiwanese drama Someday or One Day (2019), said: "The past year has been enriching and healthy for me. I have had time to recharge and have also learnt new things. The residents here took a lot of care of me and would frequently give me additional servings when I go out to eat, I appreciate them very much. "I think with the time this past year to collect and organise my thoughts, I am actually quite happy about it. I will bring this energy and work hard during filming." He was also asked to give an update on his upcoming work plans, and he replied he would be preparing to start filming a new project soon and going for promotional activities. "I hope that I will be able to get used to it quickly, since I haven't been working for a year," he laughed. Greg's upcoming romantic-fantasy film Measure in Love was recently announced to be releasing in Taiwan on Oct 3 and he is expected to start promoting it soon. The movie centres on Shu Zai (Greg) and An Qing (Angela Yuen), who belong to different timelines and gravity after a massive earthquake split Earth into two, overcoming their different time zones to fall in love. A reporter also told Greg that some of his fans flew in from South Korea to welcome him back, which surprised him. "Oh really? It's really quite far, why did they come specially for me? But I am really thankful," he said, adding he has received some fan letters from them. When asked if he has anything to say to his supporters, Greg said: "Thank you everyone, I will work hard now that I am out and give back [to them]." [[nid:721036]] No part of this article can be reproduced without permission from AsiaOne.
South China Morning Post
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
What Taiwanese film legend Sylvia Chang enjoys most about working with emerging directors
Sylvia Chang Ai-chia is showing no signs of slowing down. Advertisement The Taiwanese film icon is currently touring festivals with heartfelt drama Daughter's Daughter , fine-tuning post-production on romance film Measure in Love and writing her next directing project, which she hopes to start filming in 2026. 'I haven't relaxed at all,' Chang says, sitting in a hotel lobby restaurant in Udine, Italy, where she received the Golden Mulberry Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2025 Far East Film Festival. It is her second visit to the festival – her first was in 2018, to screen Love Education 'I've been on the stage, working with young filmmakers, acting, helping people with scripts and writing my own things – which excites me, but it's also very tiring,' the 71-year-old says. Sylvia Chang and Tian Zhuangzhuang in a still from Love Education (2017). A beloved entertainer since the 1970s, Chang became a pop singer soon after she finished school. Advertisement 'I thought I would continue as a singer,' she says. 'But, once I started acting, I made a promise to myself that filmmaking would be my lifetime work, not just a stepping stone in a career. I found filmmaking a medium you can explore in many different ways, that teaches you so much about life.'
