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Podcast: News Bites
Episode: Ang Award, Expensive Cities, Foo Movie
Description: Hello everybody, and welcome to a new episode of News Bites!
I'm Nancy Sun…
And I'm Trevor Tortomasi.
In today's news:
A big award for a famous director, big bucks for these international cities, and a big twist for a rock band.
All that and more, coming up next.
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台灣導演獲總統文化獎
Ang Lee Receives Presidential Culture Award
A famous director has won the Presidential Culture Award.
Taiwan-American director Ang Lee was given the award by President Tsai Ing-wen.
國際大導演李安獲得總統文化獎的「文化耕耘獎」，由總統蔡英文親自頒獎。
The Presidential Culture Awards are given to people or groups of people who have helped Taiwan's culture.
Each prize winner gets $1 million NT.
Lee's award was for the arts and culture category (類別).
Ang Lee was born in Pingtung County...