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◆Typhoon weakens to tropical storm in E. China

Entertainment — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:43:16 +0800

After killing at least one person, toppling houses, and causing the evacuation of 1 million people in eastern China, Typhoon Morakot has weakened to a tropical storm that will head to eastern coastal provinces in the next 24 hours, the China Meteorological Administration said Monday.

Exiled Uighur leader's Japan visit angers Beijing

Entertainment — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:52:11 +0800

TOKYO: The exiled leader of China's Uighur minority arrived in Japan on Tuesday for a visit that has angered Beijing, which accuses her of masterminding recent ethnic violence in the country's remote northwest.Rebiya Kadeer, 62, the US-based head of the World Uighur Congress, said at the airport she would use her visit to call for support for the mainly Muslim minority, following deadly clashes this month in the Xinjiang region."My aim in visiting Japan is for the Japanese people to understand how terribly our people are being massacred and repressed," Kadeer said, according to a translation given to AFP by Ilham Mahmut of the Japan Uighur Association."I hope Japan's government and people will help us escape these severe conditions. In future, I hope many other countries will also approve my visits so that I can work on promoting people's understanding about the Uighurs."The mother of 11 and grandmother, wearing a traditional Uighur hat, was greeted at Tokyo's Narita ai...

Exiled Uighur leader visits Japan, angering Beijing

Entertainment — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:39:08 +0800

TOKYO (AFP) - - The exiled leader of China's Uighur minority arrived in Japan Tuesday for a visit that has angered Beijing, which accuses her of masterminding recent ethnic violence in the country's remote northwest.

Rebiya Kadeer, 62, the US-based head of the World Uighur Congress, was expected to use her five-day visit to call for support for the mainly Muslim minority, following deadly clashes this month in the Xinjiang region.

The mother of 11 and grandmother, wearing a traditional Uighur hat, was greeted outside the airport by a handful of her Japanese supporters waving flags and a sign that read "Free the Uighurs."

She was to hold a press conference Wednesday and meet members of Prime Minister Taro Aso's party, according to her supporters here, although a ruling party official said he was unaware of any planned official contact.

"Her itinerary is not completely fixed and may change," one of her supporters earlier told AFP. "We are a bit worried about ensu...

Jobs in Taiwan's funeral arrangements attractive amid economic crisis

Entertainment — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:25:56 +0800

TAIWAN: The global economic crisis has led to job losses all over the world, and the bad times have led some unemployed to consider jobs they never would have previously.Family and loved ones are often at a loss when it comes to funeral arrangements. And in Taiwan, many hire professionals known as a "li-yi-shih" or an "instructor of rituals" to guide them through the ordeal.It is a profession that is becoming attractive, as more people find themselves out of a job. Those who want to learn the trade can sign up for free courses offered by Taipei City's Labor Bureau.A trainee, Cheuh Chun-Sheng, said: "Late last year, my father passed away. It has happened to my family, so I can help others (with my experience). I signed up the programme on the Internet and have no regrets."Companies providing funeral services prefer to have young people join their ranks. But industry experts all agree that people who have more life experiences are better suited.Director of Continuous ...

◆Walt Disney to fund H.K. Disneyland expansion plan

Entertainment — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:12:02 +0800

The government said Tuesday that Hong Kong Disneyland will get a facelift that will add three new areas to the local theme park known for its small size. The HK$3.63 billion ($468 million) expansion plan, mostly funded by new capital injected by Walt Disney Co., will create 3,700 construction jobs and 600 full time jobs and is scheduled to be completed by 2014.

Eason Chan, Jay Chou win Mandarin pop music awards

Entertainment — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:54:35 +0800

TAIPEI (AFP) - - Hong Kong's Eason Chan and Taiwanese pop prince Jay Chou garnered top honours Saturday at Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards, dubbed the Chinese-language Grammys.

Chan picked up the most coveted Best Album of the Year accolade for "Don't Want to Let Go," although he missed out on the top singer prize to the absent Chou, who took three awards.

"I am especially happy to receive the award from" fellow Hong Konger Jacky Cheung, an emotional Chan told the crowd.

"I want to thank the judges ... I love you. I love Taiwan," he said as cheering fans chanted his name.

Chou, who led the race with eight nominations, saw off Chan, heartthrob singer/actor Leehom Wang and Kong Kong's Khalil Fong to take the Best Mandarin Male Singer title.

He also took Best Song of the Year for the heart-warming "Fragrant Rice" and Best Music Video for the dazzling "Mr. Magic" he directed and performed from the top-selling album "Capricorn."

Versatile Taiwan singer San...

SINGAPORE: 4 join top S'pore brands

Entertainment — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:34:19 +0800

Survey that measures the pulse of Singapore consumers ranks 'Straits Times' in 8th place for favorite brands

The Straits TimesThursday, April 9, 2009

By Jessica Lim

FOUR local brands -- Starhub, NTUC FairPrice, The Straits Times and SingTel -- have made it to the top 10 list of Singapore's favourite brands.

The list, based on an Internet survey commissioned by independent brand arbiter Superbrands, polled 1,500 consumers aged between 18 and 55 here.

The survey, run in January and February and conducted in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong by research firm Nielsen, asked consumers to identify their favourite brands across 93 categories. Brand name responses were unprompted and more than 500 favourite brands were identified in each country.

The result: Toothpaste brand Colgate and Internet search engine Google took the top two spots here, followed by homegrown cable TV and telecommunications service provider Starhub.

Local co-operat...

The politics of skincare

Entertainment — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:41:20 +0800

discussion, among friends, led to talk of how caviar is extracted. According to one of the girls, a slit is made before the still alive fish is scraped clean of its eggs. She has not consumed caviar since.

There goes my plan to use skincare made with caviar. Regardless of what we intend, the chase for beauty has political connotations.

Within the family, my sister is the go-to girl for all things skincare and cosmetics. Thinking that this was the domain of the self-obsessed, I held out for years. I thought that my time was better spent reading economics and arguments establishing the right of the individual versus the state. (It must be said that my sister is no bimbo. Her knowledge of ethnic genocide and George Bernard Shaw plays outstrips mine.)

I was forced to revise my opinions. Realising that soap and shampoo were household staples, I started investigating companies like Nivea in earnest. This expanded to examining cosmetics. I wanted...

Japanese films dominate Asian Film Awards

Entertainment — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:57:14 +0800

HONG KONG (AFP) - - Japanese stars and moviemakers were celebrating Tuesday after blitzing the annual Asian Film Awards.

The country's films dominated the glitzy ceremony in Hong Kong, scooping best picture, best director and best actor titles, and halting South Korea's stranglehold over the event.

"Tokyo Sonata," a portrait of the breakdown of a Japanese family, won the award for best film.

Its director, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, best known for his thrillers and suspense movies, said he believed "Tokyo Sonata" appealed to audiences across the region because it captured the dark side of human nature.

"The story is about ordinary people living in Japan. However, it captured the social problems that confront not only Japanese people today but also people outside Japan," Kurosawa, who also won the best screenwriter award for the film, told AFP after Monday's ceremony.

Masahiro Motoki scooped the best actor award for "Departures", which also won the best foreign lang...

Gillian Chung Makes High-Profile Comeback

Entertainment — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:29:22 +0800

Gillian Chung attends a press conference in Hong Kong on Tuesday, March 10, 2009.

'Horsemen' Ride Online

Entertainment — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:56:28 +0800

No ban on Oasis' China concerts: Ministry

Entertainment — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:35:53 +0800

China's Ministry of Culture said Tuesday that it did not ban British rock & roll band Oasis from giving concerts in the country. "We have learned that the promoters of their concerts in China came across some financial problems," Sun Qiuxia, an official with the department of entertainment market under the ministry, told Xinhua over phone. "But we haven't received any formal document from the companies about canceling the concerts."She stressed that the ministry has approved Oasis' two concerts, April 3 in Beijing and April 5 in Shanghai, and did not revoke them.The concerts were cancelled because the company had some problems with cash flow, said a manager surnamed Luo with Beijing-based performing company Suoyou, one of the concerts' promoters, in Monday's Beijing Times report.The promoters were working on a solution about how to refund those who had bought tickets, he said.Reuters quoted the band in a M...

Zhang Yimou plans film on Communist China's founding: report

Entertainment — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:36:55 +0800

BEIJING (AFP) - - Top Chinese movie director Zhang Yimou, who masterminded the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, is planning a film to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of Communist China, state press said.A script for the movie that will commemorate the 1949 founding of new China is currently being worked out, Zhang told Xinhua news agency on the sidelines of the nation's annual parliamentary session, at which he is a delegate.Xinhua did not give any other details on the planned film.As well as directing the spectacular 2008 Games opening ceremony, Zhang is also known for blockbusters such as "Hero" and the "House of Flying Daggers," and has been nominated three times for an Oscar for best foreign film.He told Xinhua he is also mulling an invitation to orchestrate a fireworks display for China's October 1 National Day festivities, which will include a grand military parade on Tiananmen Square.

Lin Chiling Takes A Bike Ride for Charity

Entertainment — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:59:39 +0800

Model-actress Lin Chiling cycles during a charity bicycle parade in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sunday, March 1, 2009.

Unaffected Gillian Chung Plans Comeback after Edison's Hearing

Entertainment — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:15:07 +0800

Hello Kitty portrait studio opens in Shanghai

Entertainment — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:02:11 +0800

A woman kisses a person dressed as Hello Kitty while taking portrait photos at a portrait studio authorized by the popular cartoon cat's parent company Sanrio Co Ltd. in Shanghai, February 18, 2009. Sanrio opened its first Hello Kitty-themed portrait studio in China on Xinhua Road in Shanghai on Wednesday. [CFP] Previous page 1 2 3 Next Page Previous page 1 2 3 Next Page

Gigi Lai's Wedding Gown Pics

Entertainment — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:44:26 +0800

A series of HK actress Gigi Lai's wedding photos is released on Feb. 17, when the TV starlet and her newly-wedded billionaire husband Patrick Ma Ting-Keung held a low-key wedding banquet with only close friends and relatives being invited.

Director: Jackie Chan film too violent for China

Entertainment — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:46:35 +0800

HONG KONG — Jackie Chan, the comical kung fu king, is starring in a new movie so violent that its director decided not to release it in mainland China, which doesn't have a film ratings system. Hong Kong director Derek Yee said Monday that he considered toning down the violence in "Shinjuku Incident" so it could pass censorship in China, but decided not to because he thought it would hurt the integrity of the movie. Yee said the $25 million Chinese-language movie, in which Chan plays a refugee who escapes to Japan and becomes a killer for the mob, has scenes that show characters getting a hand chopped off and pierced with knives. "We tried to cut the violent scenes to meet the requirements of the Chinese market, but producers I invited to watch that version thought it was incomplete," he said. Yee said Chan, who invested in the movie, agreed with his dec...

Demetri Martin steps up With a new TV show and an Ang Lee movie in the can, the Daily ...

Entertainment — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:47:10 +0800

Small things delight Demetri Martin. The mop-topped comedian and long-time contributor to The Daily Show upholds the fine tradition of surreal comedy, while sharpening it for today's informed slacker. Where comics once made jokes about airline food and relationships, Martin focuses on more arcane Gen-Y minutiae.

To wit: “Most castles in America are located in fish tanks,” said a completely deadpan Martin recently. “About 99 per cent are located underwater. So we have what is called a submerged monarchy in the United States.”

Such observations are typical fare from Martin, who possesses the rare ability to appear both bored and bemused before an audience. He may resemble a character from That ‘70s Show, but he has the Steven Wright sensibility down cold.

And however low key, he's...

Zhang arrives for screening of "Forever Enthralled" at Berlin film festival

Entertainment — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:27:25 +0800

Actor Leon Lai, Zhang Ziyi and Ando Masanobu (L-R) arrive for the screening of the movie "Forever Enthralled" at the 59th Berlinale film festival in Berlin Feb 10, 2009.

When Oliver Stone meets Fan

Entertainment — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:08:02 +0800

Chinese actress Fan Bingbing and Oscar-winning American director Oliver Stone are featured in the February issue of fashion magazine "iLook".

Actress Zhou Xun becomes Hong Kong resident

Entertainment — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:44:13 +0800

China resorts to artillery to fight drought

Entertainment — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:38:07 +0800

BEIJING (AFP) - - China fired thousands of artillery shells into the sky to make it rain and prepared to divert water from its two longest rivers to fight the country's worst drought in decades, officials said Sunday.

Premier Wen Jiabao said the drought -- which has hit central and southwestern rice-growing provinces, as well as the north -- risked straining food supplies when people already faced hardships due to the economic crisis.

"The drought is still developing. Meteorologists forecast that there will be no major rain in the near-term," Wen was quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency during a visit to drought-hit areas in Henan province.

"It is very difficult to fight a drought and ensure a good harvest," he said. "We must work very hard and relentlessly."

Weather-control officials launched 2,392 shells and 409 rockets packed with cloud-seeding chemicals in operations across the north of China Saturday, the China Meteorological Administration said in a...

Ticket Price Increases at HK Disney

Entertainment — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:06:35 +0800

A parade performance at Disneyland in Hong Kong.

Calls for CCTV to Change 'Unlawful' Logo Sparks Debate

Entertainment — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:46:16 +0800

Tang Wei Plans Return to the Silver Screen

Entertainment — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:32:11 +0800

New Adidas Ads by Stefanie Sun, Cool!

Entertainment — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:18:42 +0800

'Red Cliff' Vies for Best Asian Film

Entertainment — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:58:27 +0800

China's annual CCTV Spring Festival gala overwhelms: survey

Entertainment — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:47:12 +0800

"Shanzhai" gala not available for most Chinese people on New Year's Eve

Entertainment — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:12:39 +0800

Two TV rivals should have locked horns on Lunar New Year's Eve, but the alternative to the traditional China Central Television (CCTV) New Year gala, the "Shanzhai" show was just not available for most people in China.

Actor Huang in Calendar with Giant Pandas

Entertainment — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 13:43:44 +0800

Jay Chou, Lin Chi-Ling Promote New Film

Entertainment — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:20:57 +0800

Ziyi Says "Happy Chinese New Year"

Entertainment — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:21:11 +0800

With the Chinese Spring Festival just around the corner, actress Zhang Ziyi poses with an ox toy and sends her best wishes out to fans through her official website.

Wayne Wang Selected for Berlinale Jury

Entertainment — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:19:33 +0800

Big Big Wolf Makes Big Big Business

Entertainment — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:49:09 +0800

Edison Chen Back in Obama T-shirt

Entertainment — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:32:36 +0800

Edison Chen sports his fashion brand Clot's latest collection.

Angie Chiu Hasn't Changed

Entertainment — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:09:34 +0800

Hong Kong actress Angie Chiu, poses again in costumes she once worn in the 1992 TV series "Legend of Madam White Snake", to promote a nutrition product in these recent photos. The 53-year-old star looks the same as she was 17 years ago.

Jackie Chan to Help the Next 'Karate Kid'

Entertainment — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:05:02 +0800

Jay Chou Turns 30

Entertainment — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:02:15 +0800

Zhang Yimou to Bring National Day to Life

Entertainment — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:21:45 +0800

The brain behind the stunning opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Yimou will direct China's 60th anniversary celebrations as well, officials said on Thursday.

Top Chinese Actresses Join Hands in Spy Film

Entertainment — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:18:35 +0800

Kobe Opens Official Chinese Website

Entertainment — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:16:55 +0800

Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant, dressed in traditional Chinese clothing, announces the launch of his blog and official Chinese Web site hosted on SINA.com during a news conference at the LA Club Nokia downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, January 15, 2009.

Deric Wan Talked about His "Wedding"

Entertainment — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:34:35 +0800

Hong Kong celebrated actor Deric Wan has released a series of snapshots with his January "bride", Chinese starlet Pan Xingyi on his blog Tuesday, Jan 13, 2008.

Beauty and the Beast Performed in Beijing

Entertainment — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:20:33 +0800

The ballet "Beauty and the Beast", performed by Birmingham Royal Ballet and Britain Royal Ballet Sinfonia, was staged in Beijing.

Lee-Hom Wang "Recalled" A Sad Love Story

Entertainment — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:35:05 +0800

Chinese-American musician Lee-Hom Wang shoots a self-directed music video for "Everything", another hit single off his latest album "Heartbeat".

Fan Bingbing in Luxury Dress in "Madam Chin"

Entertainment — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:17:14 +0800

A still of "Jin da ban de zui hou yi ye," also known as "The Last Night of Madame Chin," starring popular actors Fan Bingbing and Vic Zhou.

Chinese Director Files Suit over Biography: Repor

Entertainment — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:06:05 +0800

Dickie Cheung and Zhang Qian Tie the Knot in Manila

Entertainment — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:38:15 +0800

Dickie Cheung and Zhang Qian take pre-wedding photos at the Club Punta Fuego in Batangas, the Philippines on Saturday, January 10, 2009.

Law to Delight Local Fans

Entertainment — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:03:09 +0800

Li Bingbing Recounts Growing Days in Memoir

Entertainment — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:27:50 +0800

Chinese actress Li Bingbing promotes her biography "Li Bingbing: Shi Nian Ying Hua" at a press conference in Beijing on January 7, 2009.