News Links - 3/3/08

[dleedlee]

Feng Xiaogang has the West in his sights with Assembly
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 448182.ece

Playboy Police" premieres in Beijing
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpr ... 1304.shtml

Memorial Service Held To Celebrate Lydia Sum's Life
http://www.batgwa.com/story.php?id=666&img=3
Farewell, Fei-fei
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpr ... 1450.shtml
Family drama
Alan Tang publicly calls out Adam Cheng to explain himself
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... con_type=3
MC Eric Tsang

http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/p/2008-03-02/17551932922.shtml

Review: The Love of Siam (Thailand)
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5602/1/

Jackie Chan's dad to be buried in ACT
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 61,00.html

WOULD YOU SLEEP WITH HIM
Celeb blogger says Edison Chen can get any girl he wants, but...
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story ... 75,00.html

China's cartoon police not amused
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JC04Ad01.html

Singer Turns to Drug Again after Rehab
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/03/03/1261@329372.htm

[Brian Thibodeau]

Strange, It's Almost As If This Were Some Sort Of 'China Town'
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/74876

However, this man turned out to be a visitor from France who spoke a language even harder to understand than the one spoken by the Shanghai men.

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[ewaffle]

China's cartoon police not amused
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JC04Ad01.html

The media regulator also demanded TV stations observe a daily broadcast ratio of 7:3 for domestic and foreign cartoons, which means at least 70% of cartoon programs aired must be domestically made.

This seems exactly the same as the South Korean film quota which has been under attack and to some extent rolled back based on pressure from the United States.


WOULD YOU SLEEP WITH HIM
Celeb blogger says Edison Chen can get any girl he wants, but...
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story ... 75,00.html

Now Edison has beautiful women lined up talking about the reasons that they wouldn't sleep with him.