Source: Sanspo.com
Akina Minami was join w/ Taiwan actress Gui Runmei to hold a PR in Tokyo to talk about 2010 “Taipei International Flower Exhibition” which will held in January at Taipei, Taiwan. Akina also became a goodwill ambassador. A crown that was made of flowers given from the organizers as a way to spread the “Flower Expo” in Japan.
~Darth Demon
Today I’d like to offer tribute to one of the biggest and most beautiful Asian stars. After all, this is the Asian Beauty Appreciation Blog. I’m talking about Kelly Chen. She’s starred in movies, released a couple of dozen music cds, has appeared in live concerts all over Asia to sold out stadiums, and auditoriums.
She’s done TV commercials and has appeared in print ads in many major publications in both Hong Kong and Japan. Her most recent appearances in the media are about her latest role – becoming a mother. Kelly and hubby Alex Lau had their first child, a boy, in July.
For this article, I’m going to present a look at Kelly Chen in the movies. While no one is going to call her the next Meryl Streep, her career in the movies have provided many, many hours of enjoyment.
We’ll present them alphabetic order, and this is not intended to be an all inclusive list. Kelly has appeared in more than these that I’ve chosen to offer you a look at. But either I’ve not seen them, or I don’t have the DVD, and I don’t feel that I can offer up a proper opinion or perspective. I’ve also decided that ordering them alphabetically offers a more varied view of Kelly than if I ordered them by release date. Read more…
Source: Japantoday.com
Link: Yu Yamada (Photos)
“Actress Yu Yamada, 25, will play a nurse for the first time in her acting career when she appears as Sayo Hamada in Fuji TV’s upcoming drama special, tentatively titled “Team Batista – Silence of the Nightingale.”
The drama special, to air on Fuji TV on Oct 9 at 9 p.m., follows on from the drama series “The Glorious Team Batista” which aired on Fuji TV last year. The series focused on a team of Japanese doctors and nurses who specialize in heart surgery known as the Batista procedure, an operation which carries a success rate of just 60%, and is no longer performed in the U.S. in lieu of a heart transplant.
Source: Japantoday.com
Link: Shoko Nakagawa
“TOKYO — Pop idol Shoko Nakagawa, popularly known as ‘‘Shokotan,’’ attended the finale of a two-month event at Tokyo Dome City on Sunday, which was aimed at helping young people meet boyfriends and girlfriends. ‘‘I feel ‘giza’ happy,’’ Nakagawa said, using one of her enigmatic signature phrases that means ‘‘very’’ and referring to her role during the event as ‘‘a special cupid’’ to help potential young couples arrange dates.
Wearing a dress featuring pink hearts, Nakagawa said she paid her first visit to an amusement park nearby when she was just 3 years old. ‘‘I’ve also dreamed about having a kiss at the top of Sky Flower,’’ she said, referring to one of the rides at the park.
Some 12,500 couples attended Sunday’s finale, according to organizers.”
Source: sg.news.yahoo.com
Xin.sg – Saturday, September 12
At the Extraordinary V Conference held last Friday at Zirca, local MediaCorp actress, Joanna Peh was seen to be in the company of rumoured boyfriend, Bobby Tonelli. The pair was visibly engrossed in the performance and occasionally exchanged smiles and glances, appearing relaxed and comfortable in each other’s company.
In an interview, Joanne expressed that she is unafraid of appearing alongside with Bobby at public places. “We meet up quite often.” The actress continued and explained that her curiosity was piqued after she read about the ‘Little Nyona’ segment. As all the tickets were sold out for last Friday’s show, Joanne approached Bobby, who is an artiste under Fly Entertainment and asked him if he had anymore free tickets.
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Source: english.cri.cn
If you want to read tea leaves about China, the just concluded Happy Girls talent show offered a basketful of foliage.
The Hunan Satellite Television program was unsurprisingly a ratings champion, beating even most primetime shows while occupying an unenviable 10:30 pm to 1 am slot. With other regulator-imposed constraints, such as no mobile phone voting, the show still managed to stand out when almost all other televised singing contests have fallen by the wayside.
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Source: english.cri.cn
South Korean singer-actress Lee Hyori gave a mini concert Wednesday at Beijing Science and Technology University, her third time performing in China.
The dancing diva hit the stage with “U GO GIRL” and “Hey, Mr BiG” from her latest album, “It’s Hyorish,” and collaborated with Taiwanese singer Wilber Pan on their new single “Zhi Yao Ai Shang Ni,” or As Long as I fall in Love With You, which is the background song for a Hyundai Motor commercial.
“I was very nervous when I came to China for the first time, and the second time was better,” Lee said.
Link: Hyori Lee (photos)
Today is the 5th anniversary of ScanLover Forum. I can’t believe that it’s been 5 years already. Personally, I am glad to have been part of the forum for almost 4 of those years. The forum has been my personal home on the internet since December of 2005, and I am happy to serve as one of the moderators to the best forum on the web.
If you would like to share your congratulations, you can do so by leaving a comment here or by posting a response here within the forum. Here’s to another 5 years!
Source: sg.news.yahoo.com
A disappointed Joey Yung has failed to clinch the 2008 Most Popular Artist Award at this year’s Hong Kong Jade Solid Gold award ceremony, which honours the best of the Chinese music industry of the previous year. Had she won the prestigious nod, it would have been her sixth trophy and smash the late Anita Mui’s record of a five-year winning streak. Instead, she lost to rival singer Miriam Yeung, and went home with the 2008 Asia Pacific Most Popular Hong Kong Artist Award.
Eager to bounce back from this failure, the Hong Kong singer-actress is currently focusing all her attention on penetrating the Mandarin music market and has been working hard promoting her upcoming Chinese album. During the filming of an upcoming music video, she was prepared to drench herself from head to toe for a breakup scene-in the rain, no less-and had no complaints about it.
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Source: Japantoday.com
Link: Yuri Morishita 2 (Photos)
“TOKYO — Bikini queen Yuri Morishita, 24, showed how she works it at a special preview of French action flick “Banlieue 13 Ultimatum” held in Tokyo this week.
Billed as “Ultimatum: Muscles Never Die” in Japan, the movie is a sequel to the 2004 original which became famous for its stunt scenes filmed without wires or altered with computer graphics. Set in the near future in a poor area of Paris dubbed District 13, gangs and drugs are the rule of the day, but two brave men – Leito and Damien – have something to say about that.