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Source: Oriental Daily, Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net/

Source: Oriental Daily 
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net 

Welcoming 2013 in HK- Star-Studded New Year Events 

Kate Tsui is currently busy shooting for TVB new series Sniper Attack 2013, the night before she was able to take some time off with her co-star Michael Tse to attend a New Year's Eve countdown event in Macau. Although the temperature was only a few degrees, fans from Mainland, HK, Malaysia and Australia all made special trips to support them and celebrate New Years with their idols. 

For the best performance, Kate did not eat prior to the event and was dressed conservatively. However, she still caught a cold and felt like vomiting. She held it all the way back to HK. She laughed: "Actually I already felt unwell before I went there, that time I was getting cold sweat and felt like I wanted to vomit. When the ferry got back to HK and parked, I held onto a bag and ran out of there. I vomited in the VIP room." Kate joked: "I actually think I vomited because I see him (Michael) too much."

Myolie Wu, Oscar Leung and Nancy Wu attended a large-scale New Years countdown event in Tsim Sha Tsui. Myolie reveals she fell ill due to the chilly weather in the last few days: "My cats at home are all sick, so my New Year wish is for good health. (New romance in the New Year?) Leave it to fate. (Always flying around, accept long distance relationship?) Try not to be too fair, that would be misery." 

A few days ago, Kenny Wee filed a lawsuit against Oscar Leung for defamation, he expressed: "My lawyer is handling the case, not convenient for me to comment now. (Are there still locusts going to your house?) Nope, I haven't had time to clean my windows." When speaking of his New Year's wish? He said: "I hope I can stay far away from all bad things, a harmonious society and everyone good health." 

Nancy was asked about ex-boyfriend Deep Ng wanting her to treat him a meal for winning the 'Best Supporting Actress' award? Nancy said: "Not yet, but we keep in touch by phone. Thank him so much for congratulating me, I hope he'll keep up the good work in 2013." 

Linda Chung, Rebecca Zhu (Morning Zhu), Eliza Sam (Heung Heung) and William So attended Landmark North shopping mall's event Star-Studded Welcoming 2013 in Sheung Shui. Rebecca and Heung Heung were in low-cut dresses playing games with the audience, but Heung Heung appeared a bit unnatural. She later expressed she did take safety measures, but earlier she ate too much back home in Canada. Heung Heung's New Years resolution is to eat less sweets . She's currently shooting a new series, Sniper Attack 2013, where she plays a SDU officer, she said: "I have to keep fit and work out some muscles, so I force myself to go jogging every day. (Compare to Christine Kuo as SDU?) I never thought of comparing, our roles are different." 

When speaking of Ruco Chan carrying Linda and running while shooting for an explosion scene earlier? Linda frankly expressed she was a little frightened: "I'm afraid I'm too heavy, but Ruco gave me a sense of security, so I was fine. He said I'm only 90 pounds, lighter than the stunts double, but they are all men." As a workaholic, Linda hopes this year she'll learn to balance between personal life and work. 

The MC used Morning Zhu and Kenneth Ma's rumors as a joke, she laughed and said she's used to it: "My colleagues are always joking with me now, 'Morning Zhu, Kenneth isn't here?'. I'm happy to have a new nickname. (Any chance to develop further?) No, we're friends. He's a good guy, very attentive. If we have fate, then see if there is a chance in the future." Asked of her New Years resolution? Morning Zhu wants to forget the bitter and unhappy past, she said: "I hope I can rely on myself to earn money and support myself. (You can find someone to take care of you?) That early? I'm still young. Can't force these things." 

TV Queen Tavia Yeung took part in a countdown event, where she performed three songs. She laughed and said several years ago when she had to sing at a shopping mall show, because the music was too soft, she ended up embarrassing herself. However, this time she performed very well, she laughed: "Revenge on past insults!". She expressed in the new year she hopes for a pay raise and shoot Mainland dramas. She said: "Everyone wants a raise, but I'm still a newcomer in Mainland. The most important is to gain more recognition first." When asked if she'll tell boyfriend Him Law to save up money for marriage? She laughed: "I hope everyone can earn lots of money." 

Kenneth Ma and Wayne Lai were at two separate countdown events in Tsuen Wan, he expressed his next series is The Hippocratic Crush II, which won't start until after the Lunar New Year, so he has time and can accept more shows to earn extra income. When speaking of the rumor that Raymond Lam was fussing over his TV King loss and wants to retire? He said: "If Raymond retires, then that's going to be such a waste. He still has lots of room for development." It was rumored Virgina Lok switches to Kenneth and will be heavily promoting him? He laughed: "I really haven't heard of this, but TVB has four studios, lots of people are needed." 

Wayne attended the event with his wife and son. When asked about Raymond's retirement from showbiz? He expressed Raymond has it difficult because he's in TV, film and music. He hopes everyone can give him some understanding, but Wayne complained he has it difficult too: "I complain to my wife from time to time that I want to retire too. I hope to take vacation now too, that is my 2013 New Year wish. Initially I had 14 days of break, but TVB told me to apply for leave and a few days was cut out." 

Koo Ming Wa attended apm's New Years countdown event and revealed he initially had plans to go on vacation with family, but he's too busy with work. He said he hasn't had a vacation in 14 years. He reveals his 80 year old father went to support him at the event. He hopes he'll get to shoot more TV series in the new year.

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net

Raymond Lam and Kate Tsui were the hot favorites for TV King and Queen at the TVB Anniversary Awards 2012, but unfortunately lost to Wayne Lai and Tavia Yeung. Today on Christmas, each are busy with their own jobs. Kate just finished shooting the Lunar New Year film (I Love HK 2013) and will be busy from beginning to end of the coming year. A rare opportunity that she gets a day off, Kate tries to have the best of fun with her family and friends as they gather for a Christmas party. Tomorrow, she'll be going back to work in Beijing and will celebrate a White Christmas there while she's at it. Kate smiled and said its a memorable Christmas. She reveals that her relatives has been trained since youth to become a "Big 2 Master", so she can.

Although Kate lost the TV Queen award, she is still loaded with jobs and will have a prosperous year. When asked what Christmas gift she's getting herself as a reward? Kate said: "I've always wished to live with my family, in fact, what I want most is to buy a bigger house, so we can all live together. I am currently saving up for the down payment." Kate didn't get the TV Queen title, but compared to Tavia, she won the audience hearts, asked if she feels that's more important than the award? She said: "The speech I made on stage is from the bottom of my heart. I feel so warm knowing so many colleagues like me. I've gained a lot." Raymond and Kate's relationship is like 'aiya' siblings, does Kate feel its a pity that he didn't get the TV King award? She said: "Of course I feel disappointed, Ah Fung (Raymond) is a three-habitat artist, he handles all three areas of TV, film and music really well."

As for Raymond, he is shooting for a Mainland drama during the Christmas holidays, and will not be able to celebrate with his family. Raymond is also holding a concert in January, so aside from shooting series, he has to record songs and rehearse for the concert.

FUNG, the new member in the group, worked well with HIM and often hits the nail, but they also understand that they must comply with the regulations of the job. They must not give false hopes to the seeker and bring unnecessary pain to them. Gradually FUNG and HIM developed feelings for one another, but unfortunately HIM already had a girlfriend TING PUNG CHI (Lin Xiawei), who just hoped her own happiness could bring even greater happiness to others...

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net
Photo credit to XINmsn


In the past few years, Nancy Wu collaborated with Wayne Lai on three separate occasions including Rosy Business, Forensic Heroes III and most recently The Confidant. In The Confidant, Nancy's role is quite heavy as she appears from beginning to end, and she develops an ambiguous palace maid-eunuch relationship with Wayne. Nancy and Wayne have paired up several times and the chemistry just gets better each time. In addition, Nancy's acting has been getting positive feedback, Nancy said, "Wayne is a great actor. I've learned a lot after working with him so many times. At first, I felt really pressured, but now it's gotten better and my expectations has gone up as well. This time, I had a very comfortable collaboration with him because the story is about an ambiguous relationship between the two of us, so there isn't many hugs and kisses involved. Most of our scenes comes from the heart and emotions. We really like the story too." 


Netizens called the Nancy and Wayne pairing "Lin Yung" (lotus) because Nancy's character is "Sin Yung" and Wayne is "Lin Ying". Not just that, the two also has a duet, The Confidant's sub theme, Sun and Moon. In fact, Nancy participated in the New Talent Singing Contest before, and her singing skills are up to standards. She only got 'half a song' this time, but still satisfied her cravings. She said: "It is such a rare opportunity that I get to sing. Friends and fans who know me, knows that I love singing. I've waited for this day for a long time. I'm already very happy to be able to sing half a song for the anniversary."

This year, Nancy won "Best Supporting Actress" at Astro On Demand's Awards 2012 in Malaysia and at the 17th Asian Television Awards 2012 on 6th Dec) based on her mute/deaf role "Ting Yan Chi" in Gloves Come Off. The TVB Anniversary Awards is just around the corner, and Nancy can start promoting for her role in The Confidant. When asked if she's desperate to win awards? She frankly said: "Actually, yes. I've always been a supporting actress and I quite enjoy being in supporting roles. Of course, I do hope to become a lead actress some day, but take it one step at a time. I have confidence and TVB has confidence on me." However, this year the 'Supporting Actress' nominees are strong. She said: "This year there is a lot of competition, such as Mandy Wong, Aimee Chan and Elena Kong are all very outstanding."

Source: Mingpao, Oriental Daily, Weibo
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net


TVB celebrated their 45th anniversary (Nov. 19th) last night at the annual TVB Anniversary Gala show. TVB actively competed with Ricky Wong's unlicensed CTI and came out as the 'King of HK Television'. Yesterday TVB got a full page of advertisements on several newspapers and magazines, showing off their many years of contributions to the HK television industry and they plan to invest $10 billion in the future on their business. Last night, Dodo Cheng led the group of artists to say the 34 character statement: "What we need is a stable operation and service environment for a free-to-air TV station to survive in this industry and for continual development." The message was to let the government know their position on free-to-air television licenses.


Yesterday TVB published an advertisement that took up the whole page on several newspapers and magazines stating that in the past 45 years, TVB have contributed in spreading Hong Kong culture to the society and Chinese populations all over the world. Besides the 34 character statement to the government, TVB also announced last night that they have established a "TVB Artistes Charitable Fund" to help third world countries, including those who have sudden financial difficulties, those in poverty and care for the elder. Currently the fund has already raised HK$30 million and the movement will begin next year.

105 year old former chairman Sir Run Run did not attend the anniversary, but Eric Tsang expressed he's at home watching the show. Executive chairman Norman Leung responded to the free-to-air TV license issue: "TVB just wants to know from the government, anyone who applies for a TV free-to-air license can get one? How many licenses will be issued then? It is most significant that TVB has a stable environment to develop further. I am the executive chairman, I want to know how many more free-to-air licenses will be issued in the future? I have to have answers for our shareholders and a business plan for the future. When our license expires in 2015, we will renew it."

The anniversary performances didn't have many surprises. Kate Tsui, Rebecca Zhu, Mandy Wong, Christine Kuo and other beautiful girls performed "Goddesses Falls for the Net", where they did a dance on the net. The girls were dressed rather conservatively and there wasn't much to look at. After Kate finished her performance, she started crying and said: "I'm so touched, I finally completed this performance. The rehearsal was truly difficult and I got many injuries."

Most of the attention was on the 'heavy after taste' parody skits for anniversary series Silver Spoon Sterling Shackles (SSSS) and The Confidant. The male artists including Moses Chan, Wayne Lai, Roger Kwok and Michael Tse did the male version of SSSS and disguised themselves as the four wives. Nat Chan played Damian Lau's character. The four "wives" acted very girly and surrounded Nat trying to kiss him. Kristal Tin pretended to be an eunuch from The Confidant, she took out a knife and pretended as if she was going to "castrate" Nancy Sit and then she suddenly took out a banana and started cutting it madly. Law Lan, Ching Ho Wai and Mary Hon were dressed as wild cat girls, shocking the audience.

When it was time for the games, Moses had to sit on his girlfriend Aimee Chan's lap, which frightened him so much he almost fell over, but Aimee hugged her lover tightly on her lap. Ruco Chan was asked to sit on sexy JJ Jia's lap. However, he only sat on the side, but still he almost crushed JJ. Aimee pretended to be Mrs. Chan and pushed the 'baby' Moses off. Then Moses miserably got milk powder and ground coffee splattered all over him and Aimee tried to defend her boyfriend and blocked it. The lucky money gift winners of the night were Wayne Lai, who won a $1 million prize and Raymond Lam won HK$50,000 red envelope.

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net

Source: Oriental Daily
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Source: Oriental Daily, Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net/forums/

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net/forums/

Source: Oriental Daily
Translated by: aZnangel @ http://asianuniverse.net/forums/