News Links - 8/23/07

[dleedlee]

Hong Kong director Fruit Chan plans Bruce Lee biopic about early years
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/ ... -Movie.php

Zhou Xun Plays Taxi Driver in New Movie
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/23/63@265121.htm

Joan Chen's Chinese connection
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/stor ... 20,00.html
The tragic film that lures Joan Chen to our shores
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/st ... 81,00.html

Feng Xiaogang Shoots Short Olympic Film Promos
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/23/63@265123.htm

Jet Li on beer, making movies, and helping those in need
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?pag ... aug20_2007

Huang Shengyi Shoots Ad in Dunhuang
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/23/63@265012.htm

Asian stars are drawn to “I Come With the Rain”
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/1935/1/

Hong Kong pop duo Twins shoot "wedding" pictures

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007- ... 575115.htm

Li Yuchun Promotes Charitable EP
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/08/23/272@265154.htm

[JohnR]

Hong Kong pop duo Twins shoot "wedding" pictures

That's just weird. It was more interesting when they were "marrying" each other.

Is this some new social phenomenon in which young people get fake wedding pictures taken? Or is the EEG PR department on drugs or simply out of good ideas?

[Brian Thibodeau]

Maths genius wins university place, aged 9
(missing subtitle: Refuses to discuss frequent after-school wedgies)
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/070823/o ... e_hongkong


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[Fan]

Is this some new social phenomenon in which young people get fake wedding pictures taken?

Your fake wedding pictures = pictures of a single woman in wedding dress?

[Fan]

Maths genius wins university place, aged 9
(missing subtitle: Refuses to discuss frequent after-school wedgies)
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/070823/o ... e_hongkong

This isn't anything unusual in Western society?

Unlike the 14-year-old girl who is admitted to HKCU Medical School a few days ago, he's really just a kid.

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... con_type=1

http://www.mingpaonews.com/20070824/gaa1.htm

Asked why he had not gone to school in the United Kingdom, he replied in English, "because my father does not have sufficient money."

First time hear this and a bit disappointed as it's been saying that the reason why he coming back to HK is because he likes the place.

[Brian Thibodeau]

This isn't anything unusual in Western society?

It happens over here too, and I'm always amazed at young people who are that smart, but you just know they put up with a lot of crap. The writer of your linked story on the med school girl couldn't resist printing some of the negative feedback she got on her blog from jealous people trying to hurt her. Same kinda people that give wedgies, I suppose: very shallow (thus my joke). Those people often end up working for people like these kids in the long run!

First time hear this and a bit disappointed as it's been saying that the reason why he coming back to HK is because he likes the place.

Maybe he still does! Perhaps the Hong Kong media just wants people to think that Western universities are somehow better when they're not, so they posed a loaded question to him.

[JohnR]

Your fake wedding pictures = pictures of a single woman in wedding dress?

No; in many of the photos they were with fake grooms.

[Fan]

Your fake wedding pictures = pictures of a single woman in wedding dress?

No; in many of the photos they were with fake grooms.

ok, little fake wedding picture in the middle of a billboard @ Mongkok