News Links - 10/13/07

[dleedlee]

Grand Ceremony of Chinese Kungfu Held in Shenzhen
Jackie Chan and Louis Cha/Jin Yong

http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/10/13/63@283543.htm

"Lust, Caution" Postponed Again
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/10/12/63@283193.htm

Jury favors hardcore art as Pusan fest winners

New Currents Awards
"Life Track" (dir. Jin Guanghao, China-S. Korea)
"Flower in the Pocket" (Liew Seng-tat, Malaysia)
"Wonderful Town" (Aditya Assarat, Thailand).

Fipresci Award
"The Red Awn" (Cai Shangjun, China).

Netpac Award (shared)
"Hello, Stranger" (Kim Dong-hyun, S. Korea)
"With a Girl of Black Soil" (Jeon Soo-il, S. Korea).

Audience Award
"Flower in the Pocket."
Sonje Award (best Korean short) (shared):
"Woong's Story" (Lee Ha-song, S. Korea)
"A Man under the Influence" (Jung July, S. Korea).

Woonpa Award (best Korean docu)
"Tear Drops" (Mun Jeong-hyun, S. Korea).


http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/4681/1/

Michelle Yeoh is one busy actress
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.a ... =lifefocus

Offering by Peking-Duck Chain May Lead a Wave of China IPOs
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1192041 ... lenews_wsj

Sports satire by 'Hu Jintao'
http://www.newsgroper.com/hu-jintao/200 ... g-matches/

NBA hopes to continue taking great leaps forward in China with latest expansion
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/b ... dv13.1216/

Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (Butterfly Lovers) sculpture in Ningbo

http://english.cri.cn/3100/2007/10/13/1301@283544_1.htm

[Brian Thibodeau]

Chinese singing star headlines charity concert:
http://www.yorkregion.com/article/53152

Can't say I'm familiar with her, but she apparently shared the stage tonight with a young singer named Amanda Zhou (not sure if she's the actress) and "TV executive, producer-director, and movie director" Ricky Chan, which I assume might be this guy. His picture was on the poster around town. I should have scooped one and scanned it to the forums to see if anyone could place the face (or the red-rimmed glasses and big 'fro )


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[dleedlee]

Ms Zhou’s grandmother was famous Chinese singer Zhou Xuan.

Wow!
An Amanda Zhou also appears in a Taiwan TV series called Queen's:

Synopsis
Tie Xiong (Tang Zhen Gang) is in love with a girl named Ke Er (Amanda Zhou), who is a cosplay fanatic. He learns handicraft, joins cosplay club, and cross-dresses,in order to get closer to her. He does not get the girl. What he gets for his beautiful face and feminine new hobbies is Ke Er as his new best friend and an unwanted rumour as a gay. What is most depressing is that he ends up helping her chase after school basketball player Yong Jun (Gong Ji An). It is only then that he realizes that his approach to chasing Ke Er's heart has been wrong. Ke Er wants a sweaty-smelling manly man and not a little sweet teddy bear...