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Linda Chung attended the "Summer's Fantastic Art Trip" event for the opening ceremony. She did a performance with a Chinese yo-yo and got a hang of it right away, she did not make any mistakes. She said happily: "I have acrobatic talent!" She reveals that when she was filming "The Biter Bitten" in the past, she learned how to do dance trapeze and the Ring of Fire from a teacher. It was really dangerous because there was no wires to hang on to, you had to rely on your hands fly here and there in the air. "It was dangerous but also had a feeling of success. After I finished filming that scene, I was crying and laughing at the same time."

After Linda finish shooting a new series with Wong He "Cross Boundary Exploration", her new album wil release in November.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AEU

In order to become independent artists, besides having the relative strength for oneself, relationship is also an essential element. Ada Choi becomes the strongest backstage photographer for her husband Max Zhang.

Ada Choi and Max Zhang have already been married for half a year, but the couple's relationship is still excellent. Earlier Ada often visited the set while her husband was filming for a new drama. She was busy capturing photos of the filming process, what a 24/7 wife. But the sneaky Ada saw that when Max was filled with blood in one of his scenes, not only did she not get worried about him, but she quickly went to snap pictures. The playful Ada even took on the role of a Host as she "interviews" her husband's feelings towards being so bloody. It was hilarious.

Source: The Sun
Translated by: aZnangel @ AEU

Pussy galore: Hong Kong actor and Singer Raymond Lam will perform in HCM City on July 22. (Photo: Internet)

The Shake the Wind concert will feature popular pop songs in Chinese and English.

Raymond is also planning to perform Vietnamese songs at the Sai Gon Exhibition Convention Centre in District 7 next Wednesday.

Vietnamese singers Ho Ngoc Ha, Bao Thy and Luong Bich Huu will perform with Raymond.

He actor is well-known in Viet Nam through his roles in TV series, including A Step into the Past (2001), Eternal Happiness (2002), Moonlight Resonance and The Four (2008).

In 2007, Raymond began a singing career after he signed with Emperor Entertainment Group Record Company.

He has released three albums, Searching or You in Loving Memories in 2007, Your Love in 2008 and Let's Get Wet this June.

He was awarded an International Phonographic Industry awarded for a top-10 recording and a top-10 Cantonese-language album.

Source: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/Entertainment/2009/07/858104/
Credits: Cutie Youko @ AsianFanatics

Niki Chow was learning flower arrangement for the programme "Entertainment Flagship Store" for Metro Radio yesterday. Niki revealed that she has been receiving flowers from her fans recently, but hasn't received from male friends for a long time. Niki reckoned flowers will died, therefore she is not keen getting flowers, not even on valentine's day.

In this year's book fair, Niki has written a documentary novel called "Happiness" in which she describes her experience since entering the entertainment world 8 years ago. Reporter asked if she has included her love affairs in the book? Niki said she didn't mention any particular examples. Talking about some writers have produced sexy portrait style of books for display in the book fair, Niki smiled, saying that she has also got some sexy pictures in her book. That was a picture taken when she was in the hot spring, wrapped by a towel. Niki stressed that her book doesn't contain any adult materials. Recently, some internet users have initiated that those books with sexy images should be thrown out from the book fair.

Niki has arranged her autograph session in the book fair, and she will be using a stamp to substitute for the signature. The stamp was designed by her specially for this book fair.

Source: Takungpao/MingPao(image)
Translator: R.E.D @ http://www.asianvn.com

The cast of TVB "Burning Flame III" were having a promotion activity under the hot sun yesterday. Wong Hei, Kevin Cheng, Myolie Wu, Boscon Wong, Aimee Chan, Yvonne Ho and Joey Mak were playing water games at the hotel roof top swimming pool. All the females artists were showing their sexy figures, in particular, Joey. But Myolie appeared without her bikini, and she had also warned everyone not to spray her with water pistol.

Wong Hei wasn't in the mood to be interviewed, he and Kevin haven't spoken to each other throughout the event. Andy Dai asked if he is really so stubborn and difficult to get on, like the role he played in the series, Wong Hei pretended he didn't understand the question. He left as soon as the promotion was finished, didn't stay for the interview.

Moylie had her bikini underneath her shirt, she told reporter that she was wearing her bikini when she was with the Miss Hong Kong contestants in Japan and there is no need for her show it again. Talking about the cast didn't spray her with the water pistol as she requested, Myolie responded "I have to thank everyone, they are so nice to me."(Because you are the wifey?) Thanks everyone who takes care of me, it is better to warn people beforehand". Speaking about the final episode which was leaked out and reported in a magazine, Myolie reckons it doesn't matter. There is a big different between reading the ending in a magazine and watching it on TV. She believes even the audience know the ending, they will still watch it on TV. (Will there be an alternative endings?) The series is attractive enough, the audience won't just read about the ending but not bother to watch the final episode on screen."

Kevin stressed again that he and Wong Hei are colleagues and he had said it many times that there are no problems between them. Talking about the final episode which was reported in the magazine, Kevin said "You have to watch it to find out. Episode 12 has a lot of changes, the audience will continue to watch it."

Joey Mak said one has to have the sport spirit when playing games. She had her swimming costume underneath to prevent being exposing herself when playing in the water.

Source: Takungpao/MingPao/On.cc/Wenweipo (image)
Translator: R.E.D @ http://www.asianvn.com

After dating for 9 years, Kenix Kwok Ho Yin and Frankie Lam Man Lung married in 2005. Since then, numerous rumors have circulated that both were involved in extra-marital affairs with various actresses and actors. Earlier in May 2009, various clips of telephone recordings circulated. The voices of the speakers resembled Frankie and Kenix and the man in the conversations admitted he had cheated on his wife with Mainland actress, Vicki Dung.

Although Kenix and Frankie held a press conference and claimed that their relationship was stable, this failed to curb divorce rumors which have escalated recently.

In a tabloid magazine published this week, Frankie allegedly asked for a divorce on several occasions. However, he owed Kenix more than one million in debt. Since Kenix demanded Frankie to pay her back first, Frankie did not dare to go through with a divorce.

Reporters contacted Kenix’s manager, Kim, to confirm the rumors. Kim said that Kenix did not intend to respond to the recent rumors. As for Frankie, he did not return any of the press’ calls.

Article Source: Mingpao
Image Source: Tom.com
Credits: JayneStars

Earlier Elanne Kong exposed that she had a male artist pursuer who once collaborated with her and this had become one of the main topics in the entertainment circle. People suspect the artists could be Pakkho Chau or Ron Ng. The person who is most suspcious is Ron Ng because he helped Elanne write her new book. In order to kill off all the suspicions, he strongly stomped on Elanne saying she was "not pretty" and "not cute".

Will be releasing her new "Little Princess" book on July 22nd, Elanne Kong used her entertainment circle connections and invited Michael Tse, Michael Miu and rumored boyfriend Ron Ng to help her out in writing it.

Earlier Elanne exposed that there was a male artist who she once collaborated that was strongly pursuing her, coincidentally Ron Ng was the suspected pursuer. To help a friend and to kill off the suspicions, Ron stressed that he is not Elanne's "Lucky Prince" and the two would often refer each other as "brothers". He also bounced one statement to Elanne: "Among all the girls I've seen, Elanne Kong is one of the most not pretty, not cute and not that hard working girls. But she relies on herself to survive in the industry and also she does have talent as a newcomer."

Although Ron did not spare Elanne a chance, Ron and Elanne's relationship is definitely very good. He expressed that during the time when they were filming, he would often play with her: "One time we were using rattan whips to "fit" each other and we were playing all the way into the costume room!"

Michael Miu praises Elanne that she is made of wood, and refers her as his daughter: "This daughter because of her workload, she is often not by her "dad's" side.... but daughter would call back from time to time and would comfort me. I know that she has confidence in me, so writing a section in the book, of course Dad will help you out!"

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AEU

To release a new book in the middle of this month, Moses Chan at first thought of just sharing his experience with coffee, to compete with other beautiful photo books, but Moses has no fear. He only hopes to fulfill his dream, he does not care about how successful the book is in the market, he's very lofty.

TVB Siu Sang Moses Chan recently became a new talent where he will soon be releasing a book sharing all his coffee experience. Although there are many other people releasing books this summer, but Moses has no fears, he said that their goals are not the same, there will not be any conflicts. He exposed that when he was a teenager, he thought about doing a photo shoot for a photo book one day.

Starting out as a model, Moses expressed that he once wanted to release a photo book showing off his body figure, he said: "When I was a teenager, I thought that my body figure was nice, so I was full of self-confidence. I also thought about releasing a photo album before, but as I got older I became more conservative. Now, even if you tell me to wear swimwear briefs, I would not dare to let the public see. (Even if the pay is really high, it won't trigger you to do a photo book?) Nope, I pursue my dream now. My dream is coffee, to share all my coffee experiences with everyone."

Never planned the results

Moses has no fear for the competition of his published book, he said: "Afraid that my coffee book won't have enough attraction? I'm not afraid. Nowadays books are very diverse, every author has a different goal, so there should not be any conflict. (Have you thought about the book sales?) I never planned of the results, I only want to fulfill my dream, hoping to be the middle-man, introducing coffee to everyone to people who like coffee."

Also, Moses expressed that releasing a book is fulfilling his dream, but that is only one part of it. He said that the book talks about his many plans for coffee, he is truly faithful to coffee.

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AEU

In Kenneth Ma's new series, he plays a flirty inspector, besides having a very sexy girlfriend Bernice Liu, he will also have a one-night stand with beautiful girl Lisa S. For the role, Kenneth said that he will need to go to Lan Kwai Fong and look up information. Not hard to believe that rumored girlfriend Nancy Wu may get jealous.

Kenneth Ma, Raymond Lam, Tavia Yeung, Bernice Liu and Lisa S. attended the costume fitting of TVB new series "Shall We State the Case". Kenneth and Bernice will again play a couple in the series, the two will even have a heated bed scene. Bernice appeared at the event in a low-cut outfit and always stuck by Kenneth when taking pictures, no wonder Kenneth had a huge smile on his face.

Kenneth being surrounded by all these pretty girls, will he report to rumored girlfriend Nancy Wu? He smiled: "I don't need to. But its really just a role, I never tried one-night stand before. Maybe I will have to go to Lan Kwai Fong to check it out and take some notes for this role." Even Western-like girl Bernice expressed that the script is quite an uproar, it doesn't even seem like a television series would have such scenes.

Playing as a female cop, Tavia Yeung appeared in a police uniform, but the uniform requires her to change her 25-inch waist into a 22-inch, Tavia said: "This time I'm playing as a police officer, my mom is the happiest because she had always wanted me to be a police." Raymond Lam's role doesn't beat Kenneth's role where he is surrounded with girls, asked if he's worried that Kenneth may steal all the limelight? He said: "Having many girls would stand out? Kenneth and my roles are very different. He is flirty and I'm the honest one."

Raymond has confidence for new series

[Mingpao] Raymond plays a physics professor in the new series and will assist Kenneth in his investigations. Female police officer Tavia will have a relationship with him. It was said that the series is a copy of Japanese drama "Detective Galileo", Raymond said that he knows the plot of that drama involves physics investigations, but "Shall We State the Case" adds new elements and rich relationships. He also deliberately not watch "Detective Galileo" because he didn't want to bring the acting style of Fukuyama Masaharu into his own role. Asked if because of Raymond's singer status that he was not able to take on Kenneth's role as the flirty investigator? Raymond said that the roles are cast by the Producer and it has nothing to do with his singer status. He also hopes that he could be able to play different types of roles more.

Source: Oriental Daily, Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AEU

Following discharged from the hospital, mother Kelly took Chace straight home to the nursery where father Alex has decorated earlier. Chace settled in very well in his new surroundings and keeps smiling while he sleeps, showing his sweet face. The proud parents feel very sweet too just looking at him.

Kelly followed the tradition to have a bath and washed her hair using ginger water after she came home. Chace is by her side all the time. Kelly said "When I hold him everytime, I love his smell, very nice indeed." Father Alex has been taking pictures of him everyday. Chace sometimes shapes his mouth to an "O" shape, he looks so cute. Chace has got many presents relate to cows as this is the year of "OX". Chace is already wearing jeans given to him as a gift from a friend of Alex.

Source: Takungpao/MingPao/On.cc(image)
Translator: R.E.D @ http://www.asianvn.com

"TV Star Mega Live" was held at Genting Highland in Malaysia on 11th July. Ron Ng, Myolie Wu and Bosco Wong in collaboration with Malaysia newcomers Yan Wan Qian, Tsang Kwok Fai and Andrew Chan were sharing their singing talents with an audience of over 5,000, provided them with unlimited entertainment throughout the evening.

Hosts King Kong and Vivien Yeo started the show with a love song "Small dimple", followed by a musical play "EU" performed by Ron and Joanne, Miss Malaysia Chinese. Myolie sang "Fortunately" as well as singing hand in hand "Grateful to meet you" with rumored boyfriend Bosco. Whereas Bosco performed a song and dance "Hey Boy" and he even distributed roses to his fans. That made it the highlight of the whole event. The three Malaysia newcomers also sang a lot of TVB series classic theme songs as well as their own hot favorites. The 4 winners of last years "TVB8 pretty young boys and girls" also performed a dance; their success and hard work have witnessed by the audience.

Source: Wenweipo/On.cc (image)
Translator: R.E.D @ http:// www.asianvn.com

A crowd gathered at Jurong Point last Saturday, to show support for popular TVB actor Raymond Lam. A queue was formed hours before Lam made his appearance, all patiently waiting to get his autograph.

The Hong Kong actor-singer, who recently wrapped up his Hong Kong concert last month, will be kicking off a chain of events next week.

"I'll be filming for a new series starting July 20 in Hong Kong. Subsequently, I'll be recording a Mandarin album to be released within this year."

Lam revealed that the new drama will be a detective story and is a brand new challenge for him.

Source: yahoo.news
Credits: summer7879 @ Illusive Serenity

TVB series "Burning Flames III" replaced "The Threshold of An Era" and did not let us down with the average premiere ratings of 33 points on its first week of broadcast, episode one's rating reached up to 36 points. This makes it the highest ratings of first episodes on TVB since 3 years. Netizens have been engaged in heated discussions on the series, although most gave positive feedback, but others say that there are lack of challenges, including too much messy flashbacks, Kevin Cheng also gets named the new "drives customers away" . The producer of the series Amy Wong Sam Wai accepted an interview and responded to the criticisms, he said that it's really hard to accommodate everyone in every scene, but in the future she will try to. She also defends Kevin Cheng, she said that he's leading this week and it will be gradually carried out later, Netizens do not have to rush now to criticize him yet.

ERRORS IN THE SERIES


Heading: Andy Dai had 5 stars! The front door said he's "Secretary of Firefighers"

Badge Error

Andy Dai Chi Wai plays the "Secretary of Firefighters" and appeared in the series with "5 stars" on his badge, but the actual Hong Kong "Secretary of Firefighters" has only "3 stars" on their badge. TVB also noticed the error in episode 1 and quicky changed Andy's status to "Senior Divisional Officer" in episode 2. Although the change happened fast, but Netizens discovered it faster.


Heading: It is clearly Tsuen Wan, we see HK Pet Hotel nearby. TVB says its Wong Tai Sin!

Cross-Fire Error

The main characters work in the supposed "Kowloon City Fire Department". In episode 2, a fire started in a karaoke bar in Wong Tai Sin, the main characters took action immediately to go rescue the area, but the careful Netizens discovered that within the "Wong Tai Sin Karaoke" is actually in Tsuen Wan in reality. Tsuen Wan and Kowloon City are actually totally unrelated because the two districts are no where near each other. Such a big fire, in reality the Kowloon District Fire Department probably won't be dealing with it and no such "cross-fire" would happen.

Breaks Over

In episode 02 during the karaoke fire, team leader Chung Yau Sing (Wong Hei) requested for reinforcement from the fire department. As a result, his colleagues Cheuk Pak Yue (Kevin Cheng) and his whole team came for assistance. Netizens called this irrational because the plot revealed that Wong Hei was the leader of Team A, Kevin is the leader of Team B, therefore the two teams take turns in work shifts. One team on duty, while the other team rests. Generally speaking, the only reinforcement would be the fire trucks from other fire departments and not the Team B who is currently resting.

Jumping off building, no pad

One scene was about the firemen rescuing a person who was jumping off the building, the ground did not have any air-cushion, Netizens thought that this was not rational. [I think the cushion was suppose to save the falling person in case he/she jumps off the building]

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Kevin Cheng "drives customers away"

"The Threshold of An Era" ended with poor ratings, the main reason is because the cast members lack "viewers fate", especially Patrick Tang, Yoyo Mung and Toby Leung who were named "The 3 Customer Shoo-ers". After "Burning Flames III" airs, the cast members performances are again discussed. Among the three main male leads, Kevin, Wong Hei and Bosco Wong, Kevin gets criticized the most. Some Netizens say although he's "TV King", but he has a dull performance: "Kevin's personal expressions does not change no matter what series or character he's in." Some people even said that he's the new "Customer Shoo-er" (driving customers away).

Netizens compared his scenes with Wong Hei, saying that "he totally let Wong Hei steals his limelight." One scene talked about Kevin's team members making a mistake and Wong He wanted to punish him. Kevin tried to plea for his team. While Wong Hei was speaking, he changed his hand motions into 3 positions, showing his real emotions and the level of feeling while he speaks. Unfortunately Kevin did not have any type of response to that, he did not take any action to accommodate Wong Hei's hand movements.

Messy Flashbacks

Starting from Episode 05, there was many flashbacks. Netizens felt that it was "too much", becoming too complicated and confusing, it was almost as if the whole entire episode was made up of Flashbacks and old memories. Netizens said: "Sometimes we can't even tell what is present time and what is the past."

Non-Connecting Scenes / No Plans for "BF4"

The "Burning Flames" trilogy was created by Producer Amy Wong. Netizens say that some scenes it was "really wrong", like the Secretary of Firefighters badge. The producer expressed that this is true, she admits that some camera angles were not connecting. But she said that some angles, the majority of HK viewers will not notice, like the error that happened in the Wong Tai Sin karaoke fire scene. Also, mistakes do not only happen in TVB series, movies, other television series also do have mistakes and errors. "But", she expressed that she will try her best to reduce the amount in the future.

Regarding to the criticisms towards Kevin, Amy Wong expressed that the series has 30 episodes, the story will get exciting later on. She is very confident that the series will be able to attract more viewers. But, Reporters asked if she plans to make a "Burning Flames 4", she does not dare to say so. "I have to see if its necessary for the market, currently I don't have any plans to make a sequel."

Source: 21CN.com
Translated by: aZnangel @ AEU

A Jiao's activity schedule in mainland China is full thus it's considered a good start for her coming back to work

A Jiao (Gillian Chung) recently was in mainland China for a promotion activity, and yesterday she already went back to Hong Kong for filming with TVB. She went to Harbin to join the 《2009哈爾濱國際歡樂嘉年華》(Harbin International Fair 2009). A Jiao expressed that this was the first time she went to Harbin, and it's more beautiful than she had expected, she also revealed that she has never seen such beautiful sceneries like in Harbin. Before she reached there, she didn't expect to have any fans that would recognize her in such a far place, but once she had arrived at the airport, there were still fans who welcomed her. There was even a female fan who held tears in her eyes and asked why it took so long for A Jiao to come to Harbin. This made A Jiao feel surprised and touched.

Source: http://ol.mingpao.com/cfm/star5.cfm?File=2.../saa01/mae1.txt
Translation: ling gan @ AsianFanatics

(Kuala Lumpur, 陈莉贞 reporting) Bosco Wong and Myolie Wu brought their rumoured love up to stage! Earlier on, there were again reports by the Hong Kong media which pointed out that Bosco and Myolie had broken up, but during the previous day's "TVB Star MegaLive" concert, two of them sweetly held hands while performing a duet "Thankful for Meeting You", this segment of the concert was also the segment which fans went the most excited and most high out of all the segments that night; The most coincidental thing is that Myolie chose "我要的幸福 (direct translation: The Happiness I want)" for her solo performance, also wanted to express that the feeling and attitude of the heart in the song was a portrayal of her current feeling and current situation in her life, apparently being more forthright about her love life!

Bosco Wong filled with vigor

"TVB Star MegaLive" is proposed by Magnum, organised by TVB and held at Kuala Lumpur Genting "Arena of Stars". Stars that participated that day were singers Bosco Wong, Myolie Wu, Ron Ng from Hong Kong. Hosts of the concert were Vivien Yeo, 金刚 (King Kong) from Hong Kong. Together with local singers 颜莞倩、陈势安、曾国珲, with a group of JI young males and young females, interacting the audience to the max and unleashing unlimited charm of the stars.

The concert started off with a duet by Vivien Yeo and King Kong, sweetly singing "小酒窝 (direct translation: Small Dimple" by JJ Lin and Charlene Choi). Who would have guessed King Kong pretended that he wanted to puke, and even mischievously said that he felt like Vivien Yeo was like his aunt when they were performing the duet, and even said that she looked like Kuala Lumpur's local speciality, seafood. This caused Vivien Yeo to not know whether to laugh or to cry. Up next was Bosco with his hip-hop dance. With all his powerful dance moves, Bosco's vigorous "Hey Boy" attracted screams from his fans, even though he only had one time dress rehearsal, Bosco performed very well, being in beat with the rhythm and proficient, displaying more and more of his personal dance charisma.

Myolie displayed good woman's physique

In order to let the fans have closer interaction, Bosco, Myolie and Ron all sticked closer to the audience as they performed, such as Bosco going off the stage to shake hands with the audience, as well as Myolie making her entrance among the crowd of audience, causing the fans to be pleasantly surprised. Myolie expressed that this is her 10th year ever since she first joined this profession and she felt that she was very fortunate because many good opportunities "came knocking on her door" constantly these 10 years. Speaking about it for a while, she suddenly asked the audience: "Are you all feeling hot? I am feeling very hot ah." Immediately she took off her coat and the fans also started screaming in anticipation. After taking off her coat, Myolie displayed her slender and fine posture on stage, causing fans to admire and be envious, an eye-opener. She even entice her fans, saying: "How? Okay ma? Can ma? Love me ma?" The fans started screaming louder and continuously. And for the sake of this time's performance, Myolie had the thought and especially bought an electric piano and sang the drama "War and Destiny"'s theme song "Fortunately" while playing the piano. Even though there was a small mistake halfway, she still received much cheers from her fans. Fans responded enthusiastically and Myolie also shouted out loudly "It is like my own concert!" Following, she sang a duet with Bosco. After finish singing, Bosco was still holding her hands, Myolie immediately hilariously said: "Why don't you let go of my hands? Want to take advantage of me is it? 哼!" The other party, Bosco, was embarrassed and immediately let go of her hands and openly flirt with Myolie. In order to express the friendship between the three of them, when the concert was going to end, Bosco, Myolie and Ron sang "朋友 (Friends)" together, however, maybe it was due to them not being very familiar with the song that when the music started they were abit off beat and even had to look the the paper; However, from the uncoordinated start to the coordinated end of the song, it can be considered a satisfactory closure for this concert.

Already numb to the break up rumours

In contradiction to this time's break up rumours, two of you (Bosco and Myolie) sweetly performed a duet yet again while holding hands, does it mean that you all got back together again? "These rumours have circulated many times already, at one moment say that we have broken up, yet at another moment say that we have reconciled again, repeating and repeating, I'm already used to all these and with regards to all these reports I already have No Feel!" Asked if Bosco felt awkward holding hands while singing the duet? He laughed "We(Myolie and Bosco) have already sang together so many times in Hong Kong and China, won't feel awkward, on the contrary it is the first time singing together Malaysia, but we already can perform well together, therefore would not have this kind of feeling. This kind of song is indeed the very sweet kinds, therefore must bring out this kind of feeling when performing the duet."

Myolie Wu: 10 years to release her solo album

Rumours are everywhere, regarding the break up rumours, Myolie pointed out that all these news are just made up by the reporters themselves and therefore she would not pay attention to them as she feels that all these are just media gossips. As for her duet with Bosco, she expressed that they have not perform a duet for a long time already and she knows that the Malaysia fans like them together as an on-screen couple, therefore when she heard the audience's enthusiastic and happy response, she also felt happy. With respect to that, does it mean that if the fans hope that two of you will get together, you all will successfully continue to date sweetly? "If there is a drama in the future where we are a couple, then we are together lor, but recently my dramas are more with Kevin Cheng and Wong Hei." She revealed that she will be going over to Mainland to film at the end of July and as for her solo album, it would be released in October. Asked her if she have any intention of fighting for this year's Female Singer Award at the prize giving ceremony? She said" Last year I was still a newcomer and did not have very strong opponents and perhaps that's why it was easier for me to win an award. But now I would not be able to be classified under the newcomer group, my opponents are Joey Yung, Denise Ho etc., and being new to this "singing circle", it is enough as long as there are people who take note of my songs!"

Credits: myoliewu.org, Joanne @ http://myoliewuhangyee.com/forum

After the 43-year-old Richard Li and the 20-year-old Isabella Leong kept the birth of their son in April this year a secret, Isabella went back to Hong Kong bringing her son, Ethan Li, to meet his grandfather, Li Ka Shing, as ordered a few days ago. It is rumored that there was a 100-day-old banquet held for Li's grandson on 3 consecutive days on July 9-11, and some of the city's famous people like Stanley Ho and his second wife Lam Wan Ying, and Mr. Tsang Yam Pui and his wife were seen to attend the banquet, but Isabella and her son didn't appear so as not to disclose their whereabouts. After the party finished, on July 12, Li Ka Shing and his eldest son and grandson, Victor Li and Michael Li respectively, went sailing to celebrate it. It is obvious how Ethan Li is favored by his grandfather.

It is reported that Li Ka Shing, who will celebrate his birthday on July 28, will not steal his grandson's limelight. There will only be a banquet on the noon of his birthday at the Happy Valley Clubhouse, while on the night banquet, there will be about 30 guests who will attend it, and most of them are senior officials and celebrities.

For the sake of privacy, Richard Li strictly forbade his guests to take pictures when his son's banquet was held, and when he left, there were at least 4 similar cars seen in leading the way. Because they found out that there were reporters wanting to have an interview, they changed the venue for the banquet on the next day. When the 100-day-old banquet was held, Li Ka Shing didn't play golf at Deepwater Bay golf course as usual. In the afternoon of July 11, he was spotted going out while wearing a suit, and once his bodyguards noticed that there were reporters, they immediately sent out a motorcycle to halt the reporters' cars. Li went home at about 7pm on that day.

It is heard that Ethan Li is the bridge between his grandfather and father, as his existence made them able to mend their father and son relationship, no wonders Li Ka Shing dotes on this grandson of his.

Source: http://epochtimes.com/gb/9/7/14/n2589552.htm
Translation: ling gan @ AsianFanatics

Frankie Lam and Kenix Kwok got married in 2005 after 9 years of marathon courting. During their marriage life, there have been numerous rumors about their marriage is on the rock and there have been 3rd person involved in both of them. In May, a recorded message was leaked out, the male voice (allegedly Frankie) admitted that he has an affair, and the 3rd person was a mainland actress Tung Wai Ka. Frankie and Kenix both denied that report at a press conference, but that didn't stop the divorce rumors.

Yesterday, a magazine reported Frankie has requested the divorce proceeding, but Kenix still got his signed paper of IOU for one million HKD. Frankie cannot divorce her till he repays the loan. The reporter asked Kenix's manager Kim to clarify that. Kim said Kenix has no plan to clarify the rumors.

Frankie spoke to a reporter on the phone yesterday, denying about the divorce allegation "They reported us getting divorced and sleep in separate room. My servant doesn't even know about it, how does the reporters find out?? They said I owed her over one million dollars, how come I don't even have one million dollars? If I have over one million, anything that is over that amount, I would ask the person who wrote that report to swallow the money!"

Source: Mingpao/On.cc
Translator: R.E.D @ http://www.asianvn.com

Music queen Kelly Chen went home yesterday after given birth to Chace Lau on 10th July. Mother Kelly continues to look cool and stylish, wearing make up and sun glasses, black boots with hot pants, showing her long slim legs when she left the hospital. She looked absolutely stunning and fit when she walked out from the hospital, accompanied by her husband, assistant and the security guards. Kelly and husband Alex even stopped to let the reporters taking their pictures, but baby Chace was inside the moses basket. Kelly used hand signal to ask the reporters to be quite, as she didn't want the baby to be disturbed.

Kelly stayed in hospital for about 6 days after the delivery. When she left the hospital yesterday, Leo, her assistant and manager Claudie Chung helped carried Chace's presents. The security guards were there too to keep the place in order. Father Alex was carrying baby Chace in his moses basket, which was covered by a thin layer of cloth, therefore no one was able to see the baby's face. Mother Kelly was wearing make up and had her sun glasses on. She looked extremely fit and stylish with her black boots and hot pants, showing her long and slim legs. There were over 50 reporters waiting for her, and Kelly immediately became the focal point for the reporters who kept taking her pictures.

Reporters asked if she was full of happiness, Kelly nodded. The reporters went on to ask if she wanted to have more children, she said straight away "Haven't thought about it yet." Alex who was standing next to Kelly was smiling. The reporters asked Alex to kiss his wife, Kelly shook her head and waved. At this point the place was getting very crowded and noisy, Kelly used her hand to ask the reporters to calm down and be quite, she also asked the reporters to be careful, saying "Don't touch my wound!" Before Kelly got into the car, she told reporters not to wait for her, "Wait till I finish my one month post natal rest, than I will come and see you all."

Leo told reporters Kelly has to rest till she is fully recovered, he reckoned Kelly maybe back for work at least till September. Reporter asked Leo whether Kelly has considered to be the spokesperson for slimming commercial? Leo said Kelly is not obese, she is worried that it may not be a good idea. Talking about Alex who may want his wife to stay at home to look after the baby, Leo responded "Alex encourages Kelly to continue to work. Kelly won't stay at home and get bored at home. Anyway, Alex doesn't mind either way, but Kelly will be thinking about the baby's welfare first."

Leo revealed that as Kelly's mandarin album was only half completed, she will finish it. Leo doesn't know if the baby is fully breast fed or bottle fed, he said Kelly would make sure the baby is fed on demand. Speaking about the video which recorded the whole stages of delivery, Kelly thought it was full of blood. Kelly already hired a helper to look after her during the post natal month, and the baby's room was also decorated. Leo disclosed that "Kelly is not thinking of having a banquet when the baby is one month old, she doesn't like too many people." Leo went on to say that he and Claudia have received many well wishes text messages from artists, and they thank them on behalf of Kelly and Alex.

Source: Takungpao/Wenweipo/MingPao(image)
Translator: R.E.D @ http://www.asianvn.com

Although Sammul Chan Kin Fung has acted as a Master of Ceremonies on numerous occasions throughout his career, it should not be a great source of pressure for him to host an event. Several days ago, Sammul acted as the MC for an event celebrating women’s success in Shanghai. Since the presentation was entirely in Mandarin and English, which were not Sammul’s native languages, he was very nervous. Fortunately, he maintained a fine standard. Hosting solely in Mandarin and English, this was a major breakthrough for Sammul.

In an interlude, Sammul mentioned that he will look towards Gui Lunmei as an inspiration in selecting his future girlfriend. Coincidentally, Gui Lunmei happened to be one of the award recipients that night. When she learned that Sammul was her admirer, she volunteered to take a photograph with him. Sammul was flattered and felt like a fan meeting his idol. Afterwards, he spoke highly of Gui Lunmei’s easy-going nature.

Source: Takunpao
Credits: JayneStars

Michael Miu Kiu Wai, Eddie Cheung Siu Fai, Felix Wong Yat Wah, Yu Kam Yuan, and Cheng Dak See attended the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals’ bowling competition kick-off ceremony several days ago.

Michael indicated that he will be taking summer vacation with his family, although the location was still undecided. Michael’s wife, Jamie Chik Mei Chun recently lost significant weight while endorsing a slimming company.

Did Michael prefer the chubby or skinny Jamie? Michael said he did not mind either way. Jamie’s chubbiness was cute in a way, while being skinny had its good aspects too. However at their age, Michael believed that there should not be such a drastic weight loss. Although he did not mind Jamie being fat or thin, being overweight lent to more ‘clumsiness.’ Being healthy was the most important issue. Did Michael join Jamie’s weight loss program? Michael indicated there was no need to since he normally loses weight while filming a series, due to lack of sleep.

Felix Wong Yat Wah appeared in a recent episode of Stephen Chan’s “Be My Guest” last week. Stephen joked that Felix and Michael were terrible singers. Although Michael has never heard Stephen sing in the past, he joked, “I sing better than Stephen! He is an eloquent man, but that does not guarantee he has a good singing voice.”

Michael noted that he had his own individual singing style, which Stephen may not appreciate. Michael admitted that Jamie often dominated the microphone when they sing karaoke. Jamie’s singing skills were quite good.

Beginning in September, Michael will film a 30 episode TVB modern series. TVB is currently attempting to recruit Felix Wong to join the cast. If Felix accepts the role, this will be the first time Felix and Michael will appear in a series together in twenty-four years.

One of the requirements Felix stipulated in the filming negotiations was to have 6 hours of sleep each night. Michael laughed, “That’s easy!” TVB was deeply interested in having Felix act in a series again. Michael revealed that Felix was currently considering the offer, noting that Felix was in a semi-retired state and not eager to work. Thus persuading Felix to film for TVB again may require a lot of effort.

Felix said that he has not decided whether to film a TVB series or not. Reporters quoted Michael’s confirmation that 6 hours of sleep each night would not be difficult. Felix laughed and said that Michael was a spokesman for TVB. The last time Felix and Michael appeared in the same series together was “The Yang's Saga” 《楊家將》.

Was one of the determining factors whether Felix can perform onstage in Mainland? Felix laughed, “Yes, that’s standing in the way of making money…actually, I was worried since it has been many years since I have filmed a television series."

Source: Takungpao
Credits: JayneStars

Stephy Tang's photo album "Accompany Me on the Walk" (陪著我走) will be released next week at the Book Fair. Besides including old enemy Theresa Fu in it, there will also be a set of sexy photos in the album.

Strongly supported by Gold Label, Stephy also gets a custom made USB special edition that will be an additional special gift to buyers, there will only be 1000 units that will be produced. Stephy said: "Besides the logo to my photo book on the USB, both the mp3 and MV of my new song would be pre-loaded within the USB as well. I hope to repay my Fans with something special to show my appreciation for their continuous support."

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AEU

Max Zhang is currently staying in Mainland for a long period of time for filming, leaving Ada Choi along back at home, therefore she had to drag her cousin out to help the boredom. The other day at 6pm, Reporters spotted Ada and her cousin in Causeway Bay under the hot weather. But it was seen that Ada still had a black cap and a leather scarf, she was also in a jacket, making people think that she might get too hot.

After the two roam the streets for a while, buying some Japanese snacks and drinks, they went into a Food Court to find real food. They left 20 minutes later. When Ada discovered reporters were following her, she generously smiled and waved at the camera, she said: "Today I don't have to work, so I'm going out with my cousin to eat!" Then the two continued with their walking.

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ AEU

Directed by Wong Kar Wai and starring Tony Leung, 'The Grand Master' has met with countless obstacles from the start. Seven years ago, Tony started learning Wing Chun from Master Ip Man's son, Ip Chun, to prepare for the movie. However, Wong Kar Wai kept delaying the film. Last year Raymond Wong took over with his version of Ip Man, starring Donnie Yen. Not only did Producer Wong's version do well at the box office, it also garnered many awards. Undeterred by it, Wong Kar Wai stated that he will shoot his version in August/September. To prepare for the role, Tony has been training relentlessly. Yesterday during a practice fighting session, he was kicked in the left arm, which broke on impact.

Bulking Up with Martial Arts and Training at the Gym

To prepare for the movie, Tony has begun training since October of last year. Besides practicing Wing Chun, he has also been working out at the gym to build up his body. As filming was scheduled to start in August/September, he has steadily increased his training sessions. Starting early morning he will train with different Wing Chun masters to practice his fighting. With such an intense schedule, something finally went wrong yesterday.

Practiced Fighting with Five Wing Chun Masters

Yesterday Tony began training as usual with five Wing Chun masters. Tony appeared very strong in his attack, going towards one master at full force. The master was surprised by him and naturally reacted in self defense, using his own force to counter attack and kicked Tony's left arm. Tony's legs then buckled and he painfully held onto his left arm with his right arm. Since his arm had no strength, he went to the hospital for a check up. After x-rays were taken, it showed that one of the bones in his left arm was broken. The doctor suggested that Tony's arm be put in a cast, but Tony refused saying that muscle atrophy will set in and all the work he spent building the muscles in his arm will be wasted.

Hasn't Notified Wife Carina

As broken bones take about 5 to 6 weeks to heal, the doctor has told him not to move his arm at all costs. Not only can he not practice Wing Chun, he's not even allowed to go jogging. But Tony is very anxious to get back to training as he's afraid that if he doesn't practice, his martial arts skills will decline. The only thing he can practice now is his leg work. Tony said that he was prepared for injuries when he signed on for a martial arts film. He knows that the actual filming process will be even tougher. Getting injured now at least gives him preparation for what's to come. Has he notified Carina, who's currently filming in Hengdian? He replies, "It was too sudden. I went to the hospital right away and didn't have a chance to notify her."

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: sparkles_n15 @ AsianFanatics

TVB's new Fa Dan Tavia Yeung receives recognition from TVB based on her appearance and her acting ability. She always portrays as main roles in her series and in fact, Tavia's acting is always natural and smooth. She can control her inner acting just perfectly. Moreover, her filming path is wider and she is indeed a talented artiste. Other than her outstanding acting ability, she has a good voice too. Other than portraying as main female lead in Sweetness In The Salt, she even sang the main theme song with Steven Ma, one of the main male lead. Her voice comprises of some magnetism, clear and full of feelings. Her voice is really nice to listen indeed.

Source: Macao Daily
Credits: Jessie's Blog

Hong Kong Popular Star Raymond Lam came to Penang for Alicafe promotional event, attracting more than 5000 thousand people to AEON shopping mall.

As soon as Raymond got to the entrance stage, he was greeted by thousands of screaming fans. Despite having dressed in casual attire, Raymond's attractive eyes and and his smile left the fans all bewildered.

Although it was not his album autograph session, fans had already purchased the coffee products in exchange for his poster a few hours before the session started, so that they could obtain Raymond's autograph and to interact with their idol.

When fans asked Raymond when he will be staging his concert in Malaysia, Raymond said that he will hold a concert here after the release of his Mandarin album.

The autograph session ended at 10pm.

Source: Kwong Wah E-newspaper
Translated by: choccho @ AsianFanatics

Michael Tse and Fala Chan have finished filming "Laughing Gor of apostasy", and they have been busy doing the promotion activity. Yesterday the two were interviewed in "Today VIP" programme hosted by Ng Ka Lok.

Michael said he always shows a sigh of relief everytime he finishes a job, and he feels very empty afterwards. This time, he hasn't got time to feel that way due to the busy workload waiting for him to do. Michael said "I have to go to Singapore first to promote "E.U", followed by Malaysia. If the application for the film gets accepted to be shown in the mainland, I will do the promotion in Beijing and Guangzhou too. I have packed my luggage already, I am ready for take off anytime."

Since the censorship in the mainland is different from Hong Kong, the reporter asked Michael if they have to make any alteration to the original script? Michael replied "There will be changes because the story (about the triad) is a bit sensitive, but I don't think there would be a lot of changes." At the moment, mainland has this system called "Introducing a film", if this film can be shown in the mainland, it would be an exciting news for the Hong Kong film industry. In the past, Michael's "Young and dangerous" series (古惑仔系列) were not allowed to be shown in the mainland, its DVD and CD were sold underground and many copies were sold. Once Michael went to a remote village in the mainland, someone called him "The second day" (大天二), he was very surprised to hear that.

Talking about Michael playing the lead role in this film, reporter asked if he is nervous? Michael responded "I would be if I were a newcomer to the film industry, but since I have been working for so long, I don't think about things that cannot be predicted, so I may as well do my best. I think the audience would like that too, in fact, the Hong Kong entertainment world has a difficult task, a lot of producers can't get good feedback. I will take it easy to accept all the outcome. (Will you publicized it in facebook again?) I will blow a whistle to remind my fans that their big brother has a movie coming up, they have to do something for me!"

It is Michael's birthday today, he revealed that he had dinner with his family to celebrate his birthday last night already. This is because he has been so busy that he hasn't seen them for a long time and he is afraid he may forget what they look like. Speaking about birthday wishes, Michael hopes he can make more movies.

Fala revealed that the premier will be shown on 10th August and out in cinema on 13th August. Fala disclosed that since this is her first film, she is not only nervous, but she also wants to make sure she looks absolutely beautiful on the premier night. Fala has been busy choosing her outfit for that special occasion. Reporter asked if her boyfriend is going to accompany her for the open evening? Fala said "I don't know yet, but I will invite many friends and colleagues to come. (Will you invite Marie Zhuge?) I hope she is free that night, it is nice to have more people supporting the movie."

Source: Takungpao/Wenweipo/MingPao/photo@TVB 2009 (Image)
Translator: R.E.D @ http://www.asianvn.com

It is an open secret that Miriam Yeung and Real Ding are dating. Miriam was seen wearing a diamond "RM" pendant when she attended an activity at Radio Hong Kong yesterday. She admitted that it was a birthday present from a very close friend, unwittingly admitted it was from her boyfriend.

Miriam attended the "Solar Project" activity yesterday and she sang the ever popular "Story of Ah Shun"(阿信的故事) Miriam expressed that she has been very busy recording her new album which has to be finished by September. This is because she will be working on Johnny To's new film, and she is waiting for the script at the moment. There was a rumor that Andy Lau was supposed to be acting in it, but due to his birthday, also in September, he may not want to take part in it. Reporter asked how is she going to persuade Andy to be in the movie, Miriam said this is a very important task, she is leaving it to the boss to do it. Talking about Kelly who has a baby boy, Miriam said she had sent her congratulations to Kelly through a friend, and she will be giving her the present later on.

Reporter pointed out to Miriam that she has been seen wearing the necklace with a diamond RM pendant, Miriam said she doesn't wear it everyday. She went on to say "I have many necklaces with different letters as pendant. I don't care what other people think, I will continue wearing this one." When asked whether that friend who gave her the necklace is Real? Miriam smiled "I am not telling you, but only close friend would give me such present." The reporter reckoned Miriam was referring to Real as a very close friend.

Source: Wenweipo/Takungpao/MingPao(image)
Translator: R.E.D @ http://www.asianvn.com

Eason Chan was promoting his new album "Sell Well" in Zhejiang, Hangzhou and Huzhou the other day. During his promotion activity, he was sharing his music with the audience, from talking about the production of "salon" to taking pictures of other people, but don't like his own pictures being taken. He even took out his camera to take some pictures of the band. Eason also spoke about fashion, football, "Allegro, Opus 3.3am" MV and movie as well as imitating the way Jackie Cheung's singing and acting styles, making the audience laugh. The next day, Eason went to Hangzhou book center to promote "Sell well" and autograph session. Fans turned up early in the morning even the temperature was as high as 38 degree. Although there were a lot of people, Eason has maintained his cool, playful and funny facial expression, making the reporters and those fans who had to line up for a long time for his autograph feel that it was all worth it.

Source: Wenweipo
Translator: R.E.D @ http://www.asianvn.com