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Famous child’s arts and crafts program Mister Maker began its Asian tour recently. Yesterday, Wayne Lai was invited to be the program’s guest for the Hong Kong region – the show will air on BBC’s children’s network. Asked how he felt about ‘debuting’ on the international scene, Wayne smiled and said he felt very happy.

Wayne expressed that he constantly works on craft projects with his son at home and feels that this is a great way to strengthen their father-son bond. His son likes to make little presents for mom and she loves to receive them. Asked if he is worried about his son drifting apart from him and his wife when he grows older, Wayne laughed and replied: “Probably won’t be that quick; in fact, just yesterday, he was listening to a ghost story and got so scared that he didn’t want to sleep all alone by himself, so he came over to sleep with us in our room -- it was quite cute. Of course, we were young once and so we definitely understand that some day, our son will want to be independent and move away, but hopefully, that will be a long ways off.”

Regarding the tragedy in the Philippines, Wayne indicated that he felt all sorts of emotions about the situation – deep pain, helplessness, sorrow, and anger. “I don’t understand why so much time was wasted and the hostages still couldn’t be saved. I saw in the newspapers today that the gunman only requested 1 million pesos, which is equal to about HKD$100,000 – that amount would have been easy to raise with contributions from just the tour group members alone – so why didn’t the Philippine government agree to the amount? If a few hundred thousand dollars could have saved the tourists, Hong Kong citizens would have most definitely paid the money without question!”

After seeing how the tragic situation in the Philippines played out, Wayne admitted that he is utterly disappointed with the country: “I told my son never to go to the Philippines, I won’t go either. The police force is supposed to be a safety net, but yet they can’t even do their basic jobs correctly – this is a reflection on the government and their inabilities when it comes to ensuring people’s safety.”

Source: Mingpao
Translation: llwy12 @ AsianFanatics

Nicholas Tse's birthday is on August 29. To mourn the Hong Kongers who lost their lives in the hostage crisis, he asked assistant to wrote on Weibo last night, telling fans don't come to his filming place to celebrate birthday for him: "On the 28th (lunar birthday) and 29th, can't give him birthday gifts and cake. Don't come to filming place. Can't celebrate."

Nicholas also uploaded a picture of him, Cecilia Cheung, Kenny Kwan, and Yumiko Cheng in black shirts. They hope fans can also wear black shirts to mourn for the dead and encourage survivors to live on.

Source: Adrian's Weibo
Translation: Kay's Entertainment

Media Asia’s most popular martial arts star, Donnie Yen Chi Dan, has become a mainland box office magnet. Although his filming fee has increased astronomically to $25 million (Yuan), Donnie continues to be in high demand. Recently, Raymond Wong Pak Ming convinced Donnie to star in comedy, All’s Well, Ends Well 2011 "至強囍事 2011". In All’s Well, Ends Well 2011, Donnie will portray a make-up artist and have a romantic relationship with model, Carina Lau Ka Ling. This will be the only film in his career where Donnie will not have any fighting sequences. Louis Koo will also portray a make-up artist.

The new All’s Well, Ends Well 2011 will be directed by Chan Hing Ka and released during the same time as the sequel to TVB’s 72 Tenants of Prosperity "72家租客". Since All’s Well, Ends Well 2010 "花田囍事 2010" lost box office sales to 72 Tenants of Prosperity last year, Raymond has strengthened the cast by adding Donnie Yen, Carina Lau, Louis Koo Tin Lok, Lynn Hung Dai Lam, and Angelababy in the new movie. Mainland actress, Yan Ni, will pair with Raymond Wong.

Since the success of Ip Man "葉 問", each of Donnie’s subsequent films have grossed over $100 million (Yuan) in China . Last year his filming fee was $15 million (Yuan), which has increased to $25 million (Yuan) this year. Allegedly, Raymond Wong will be paying Donnie $15 million (Yuan) for only ten days of filming for All’s Well, Ends Well 2011.

After completing Peter Chan’s Wu Xia "武俠" in Yunnan , Donnie will return to Hong Kong to film All’s Well, Ends Well 2011. In November, he is scheduled to film the $300 million project, "大鬧天宮". In a telephone interview, Donnie said, “I would like to film a comedy and test the strength of my comic skills.”

Raymond Wong said, “Earlier, my mother passed away, so I did not have time to plan the production details for All’s Well, Ends Well 2011. I decided to cast Donnie Yen because he has potential in comedies. I also know that he is interested in changing his image and film comedies. In Ip Man, he can fight against ten people at the same time. In the new film, he will play a make-up artist who can apply make-up for ten models at the same time.”

Regarding Donnie’s filming fee, Raymond said, “Let’s not discuss it, otherwise people will say I elevated the fees in the industry! Each time I produce a Lunar New Year film, I put forth a large investment because I want to produce a quality film.” Raymond also mentioned that if Sandra Ng Kwan Yu were not pregnant, he may cast her in the film too.

Source: Appledaily
Translated by: JayneStars

Cherie Ying Choi Yee and Jordan Chan Siu Chun got married earlier in February 2010 in Las Vegas , USA . The couple will be holding their Hong Kong wedding celebration in Disneyland in November.

Appearing as a guest on TVB’s Super Trio Game Master, Jordan was questioned by Eric Tsang Chi Wai as to when he will be holding a wedding banquet in Hong Kong . Jordan said, “If Cherie and I do not have an argument, we will have a celebration in November at Disneyland .”

Jordan joked at Eric and said, “How come you guys have not ‘died’ yet? Aside from Enjoy Yourself Tonight "歡樂今宵", your show has been very long-running!” Chin Ka Lok teased Jordan by referencing his alleged grudge against Sandra Ng Kwan Yu. Chin Ka Lok pointed at Jordan and said, “This veteran is impossible!”

Since Jordan hosted the first generation of the Super Trio program, Chin Ka Lok pressured Jordan to sing the theme song for the initial show. Jordan pondered for a long time but could not think of the lyrics. Eric laughed and said, “After ten years into your marriage, you will show the same forgetfulness towards your wife!”

Source: Appledaily
Translated by: JayneStars

After the physical assault incident between Amigo Chiu and his ex-girlfriend, Elizabete Kwong, subsided, Amigo returned to work in June. Although he is currently hosting TVB’s entertainment news program, The Scoop "東張西望", Amigo’s popularity has continued to plummet. Throughout the entire scandal, Amigo’s ex-girlfriend, Natalie Tong, continued to support him in front of the press. Allegedly, Amigo realized that he could not lose Natalie and pursued her intently once again.

Over the past several months, there were frequent rumors that the pair had reunited. In July, the paparazzi spotted Amigo giving Natalie a lift at her apartment. Afterwards, Natalie spent the night at Amigo’s home. However, the pair vehemently denied the reunification rumors. Allegedly, Amigo won Natalie’s heart by promising to cut back on his partying habits. His also traded his former Audi sports car (used to impress other women) for a more practical Mini-Cooper, giving Natalie reassurance.

Earlier, the reporter discovered Amigo shopping at a mall in his free time. He bought the Kick-Ass DVD (rated Category III for its violence). Perhaps the reformed Amigo will only resort to watching films to cure his boredom.

Source: Singtao
Translated by: JayneStars

Yesterday, an online photo circulated in which a Philippine police officer posed in front of the Hong Tai tour bus where eight Hong Kong tourists were killed. The officer’s “souvenir” photo angered many Hong Kong artists.

Donnie Yen Chi Dan cursed the shameless officer in the photo and asked whether he possessed parents, children, and conscience. Gigi Leung Wing Kei lashed out at the Philippine police for having no discipline. Cherie Ying Choi Yee pointed to the shameful act. Siu Ding Yat and Max Zhang Jin cursed angrily.

Hacken Lee denounced the Philippine police officer for taking the photo. Hacken’s wife, Emily Lo Suk Yee questioned whether the officer was human. Hins Cheung criticized the Philippine officer for offending the entire Chinese population.
Sammul Chan King Fung denounced anyone smiling in front of the Hong Tai tour bus and using it as a photo prop. Stephy Tang Lai Yan questioned the conscience of the officer. Even Taiwanese artists, A-Mei Chang and Vivian Hsu scolded the hateful and cold-blooded act. Musician, Peter Kam, complained about the photo to the Philippine Consulate located in Hong Kong and Beijing .

Source: Singtao
Translated by: JayneStars

Since the broadcast of Beauty Knows No Pain "女人最痛", Joyce Tang Lai Ming gained recognition for her “ugly” character, Bibi. Her career picked up again, filling the void in her current love life. Three months ago, Joyce finally ended her three year relationship with Derek Kwok Jing Hung, who has a daughter with another woman.

Derek finally got married with his mainland girlfriend, giving his daughter legitimacy. The family recently moved to a new home. On August 17th, the family were spotted at an arcade center with their Filipino maid. Derek did not wear a face mask on that day, indicating that he was ready to acknowledge his relationship with his wife and daughter openly and become a “good man” again.

Joyce and Derek’s Dating Timeline

In 2007, Joyce announced the end of her nine-year relationship with ex-boyfriend, Marco Ngai Chun Kit. Half a year later, during the filming of War of In-Laws II <野蠻奶奶大戰戈師奶>, Joyce and Derek’s dating rumors started. The pair were teased on the set of The King of Snooker "桌球天王" for dating during work hours. Their relationship became a known secret within the entertainment industry. Tabloids also photographed Derek entering Joyce’s house in Clear Water Bay .

Joyce and Derek’s dating relationship was brought to the media’s attention in March 2008. The pair attended TVB producer, Tommy Leung Ka Shu’s elder daughter’s wedding banquet. Liza Wang Ming Chuen uploaded a group photo taken at the wedding, in which Joyce and Derek shared an intimate embrace.

In September 2009, while Derek was dating Joyce, he was also involved in a relationship with a woman in China . Tabloids revealed that Derek even had a nine month-old daughter with his mainland girlfriend. On the girl’s Chinese visa, Derek’s name was entered for the father’s information. Joyce may not have been aware of Derek’s other relationship. When confronted by the media, Joyce said, “I have always been single!”

In February 2010, Joyce and Derek attended a TVB director’s wedding together. During the group photo session, Derek turned his face away from Joyce. Deflecting the media’s attention, the pair pretended that they “broke up.”

Despite the exposure of his illegitimate daughter, Derek continued to date Joyce. In February 2010, Derek was photographed wearing a face mask and visiting Joyce’s apartment in the middle of the night.

In May 2010, Joyce and Derek may have ended their three year love relationship.

Source: Tom.com
Translated by: JayneStars

(Pat Ha, Carrie Ng)

Three big middle-aged actresses Carrie Ng, Pat Ha and Michelle Yip accepted Pan Yuan Liang's directed film Derailed Woman (出軌的女人). In the film, the three women will have many erotic scenes with male prostitute played by William Chan. William will also endure a new challenge of going half naked revealing his bottom!

Back in the day, known as the sexy star, Carrie left the Hong Kong film scene 10 years ago, but her charms are still present. As a Golden Horse Film Queen, Carrie can't miss good old friend, Director Pan's invitation to be in his new movie. It was understood that in the film, William is originally a Latin dance instructor and will eventually get on with Carrie, Pat and Michelle. In the bed scenes, William will be appearing half-naked revealing his bottom with Carrie, old enough to be his mother. The scale is comparable to the old film Nomad (烈火青春) starring Pat Ha and Kent Tong.

[The Sun] contacted William and he expressed that he is going to accept this challenge: "Yes I will be shooting it! As for if I'm going to reveal my behind, we are still discussing it! The day before, it was the first day I saw Carrie and after chatting with her, we discovered that we have the same birthday, same month and day!" He also said: "This time I won't be letting myself set a limit, no hiding!" As for Producer (Ng Kin Hung), he said: "This time we want to shoot a film using woman as the theme, the cast is all good artists. Will start shooting in September!" He also told William to get fit for the role and has high expectations on him. As for Carrie Ng, she said: "Because I'm going back to Toronto next month, so Producer Ng is just accommodating me! I stress that I won't be embarrassed because of a bed scene. For embarrassment, ask William Chan!"

Source: The Sun
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

The day before, Jackie Chan commented on the HK tourists held hostage and killed by a gunman in the Philippines on Twitter, leaving 8 dead and 7 wounded. The comment was suspected to support the Filipino police and he extended a 'friendship hand', representing the people of Hong Kong that there is no hatred. Jackie's comment sparked public anger, saying that Jackie is not qualified to represent the HK People, even good friend Eric Tsang thought that he was really wrong this time and that he needed to provide an explanation to the citizens. Yesterday afternoon, Jackie expressed that the Twitter comment was made by his assistant from the U.S. and his actual intentions are different. He stressed that he is a 100% Hong Kong person, and is feeling sorry over the tragedy that must be investigated. Towards the misunderstanding caused through the Twitter message, he apologizes.

Angered Netizens

On Wednesday (8/25), Jackie extended a "friendship hand" to the Filipinos on Twitter, expressing that the HK people have no hatred towards the Filipino police and that even if the police first killed the gunman or negotiated with him first, there still be criticisms. Jackie's comment seems to be giving a good word to the Filipino police. The Philippines presidential spokesperson (Chan Hin Dak) expressed their appreciation to Jackie's comment. However, Jackie's comment led to public anger, denouncing that he does not represent the HK people. Some Netizens even accused him saying that its all due to his coffee shop business opened in 2006 in the Philippines , that he wants to support their government.

Yesterday afternoon, Jackie Chan made a public apology. He started off by sending his deepest sorrows to the victims' family and then explained the content on the Twitter message. The message was written on behalf of him by his assistant in the U.S, but lost its meaning through the translation. He said that Hong Kong people that were held hostage and killed in the Philippines is indeed a tragedy. He strongly stressed that he is a Chinese, 100% Hong Kong person and he does feel grief for this unfortunate event. He is deeply sympathetic to the victims' family and sends blessings to the injured, hoping they recover soon.

The real meaning

Jackie restated his true intentions: He will not hate Filipinos just because of this awful tragedy because there are still hundreds of thousands of Filipinos that are working in Hong Kong and there are too many Hong Kong people working in the Philippines. If we are to hate them just because of this one tragedy, then will cause great harm between HK and the Philippines. He feels that the tragedy is a result of improper command by the Flipino police, of course will need to investigate and should leave this matter to the professionals. Finally, towards the misunderstand caused by his incorrectly translated Twitter message, he sends his most sincere apologies to everyone.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

The night before, Claire Yiu brought her 1 year old daughter Kyra to watch a Disney musical. She said: "I'm not even sure if she understands the musical, so just trying to let her watch."

Source: On.cc

Translator: aZnangel@asianuniverse

Fiona, PakHo Chau and Liao Qi Zhi were filming a funeral ceremony scene for their new film. The artistes appeared to be very serious because they were affected by the tragedy that happened in Phillipines. Fiona who appeared in black revealed that the team has went through a mourning session as a respect to the victims.

There's many artistes that are concern about the Phillipine's tragedy. As a mother of two sons, Cecilia Cheung expressed that she sympathized with Mrs. Leung's (survivor) situation. She mourned for the victims and wrote on her Facebook to send blessings to the survivors. She also expressed that if there's any way that she could help, they can contact her immediately. She also went through insomnia because she was too worried of little Leung's condition, thankfully she got to know that his condition was stable, she was so happy that she thanked the Lord. She wrote in half English and Chinese saying, " Mrs. Leung you have to "add oil"! Your son will definitely be fine....if you need any help, I'll be by your side to support you! If you can see this message, I'm the real Cecilia Cheung, it's not fake, I'll always pray for your son at all times!"

Yesterday Jackie Chan's remarks on Twitter has been interpreted as "supporting the Philippine's police", inviting many comments expressing their unsatisfactory towards the message. Yesterday Eric Tsang attended the mourning ceremony, he expressed, "I did see the remarks, the words didn't seem like they were from him, it's someone by his side wrote it, his English is not that good, maybe he's not in Hong Kong, he didn't watch the live telecast, that's why he didn't feel it too much, he doesn't understand our feelings. He cannot represent the feelings of Hong Kong people, he did not handle it well, he should explain to the public, he's wrong everytime, this time his mistake is even worse, everytime he doesn't convey his message well."

Gillian Chung (Ah Gil) is currently busy in Mainland filming for a new drama and wore her Tang dynasty costume to the China International TV Expo" in Beijing. Ah Gil plays a clever patrol and is often disguised as a man. She has many different costumes, she laughed: "I still like female costumes, the Tang Dynasty female clothing are so cool!"

Almost every Siu Sang that has collaborated with Charmaine Sheh has got rumours with her, but she seemed to have no fate with Raymond Lam. The both of them would collaborate again in their new series and Raymond Lam hoped that the rumours would help to prove his charm. Ah Sheh said that she doesn't dare to dislike Raymond.

Sandra Ng, Vivian Chow, Joey Meng, Willam Chan and Eddie Cheung were all wearing black outfit attending the premiere event for All About Love to mourn for the Hong Kong people who were involved in the hijacked bus tragedy. Sandra Ng took the lead and expressed that they were in grief : "There's nothing worth to celebrate. In the first place the whole incident can be avoided, but now there's no use to say much, only hoping that Hong Kong and Phillipine's government would do their job." Sandra said that the previous night she was at home watching the news coverage of the Manila bus hijack live on TV, "They are like my family members. I will not go to the place for the time being." Vivian expressed that she was praying all night for the victims, hope they'll rest in peace.

Andy Hui, Miriam Yeung, Niki Chow and Gary Cao Ge attended Metro Radio's 20th Anniversary Concert as guest performers. Andy Hui who recently has many rumours has not accepted an interview yet. Initially he has decided on singing 3 songs, but was reduced to 2 songs in the end. He also gave up on singing new songs and changed to sing old songs ( Wo De Tian Wo De Ge) and (Zhen Xin Zhen Yi). Regarding his reduce of songs, his music company responded and said that Andy has been down with cold recently, "He doesn't want to affect his performance, that's why he sang lesser."

( Right: Alex To)