SEKINCHAN: He may not be as famous as “Gangnam Style” Psy but for the Hokkien folk here, Taiwanese pop icon Weng Liyou may as well be. The appearance of the Hokkien star, whose songs are a ...

GEORGE TOWN: Lau Wan Yin does not speak Hokkien but she beat 49 others to win an international Taiwanese singing competition that was held using the Chinese dialect. Wan Yin, 12, who triumphed in ...

Taiwan opera is revered across the Asian island. One of its most beloved traits is its gender-bending character archetypes, and its best-known actors are women who portray men.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) EMILY FENG, BYLINE: Taiwanese opera, or koa-a-hi in Taiwanese Hokkien, first started here nearly two centuries ago in northern Taiwan. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) UNIDENTIFIED SINGER ...