Veteran HK actress Lisa Wang has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by City University of Hong Kong. The degree will be awarded to her at the university’s awards congregation in November. She is currently preparing for a solo concert.
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Malaysian singer Nicholas Teo is back from Taiwan to promote his latest album, Prince. Nicholas Teo, the mild mannered 26 year old singer from Sarawak is more than the good looking boy next door. With his killer smile and down-to-earth charisma, here is what he has to say about his life, career and plans [...]

Taiwan’s popular boy band F4 will become history as the lead singer Jerry Yan will leave the current company soon, the Fujian-based Southeast Express reports on Friday.
The pop singer and actor’s contract with Wu Fu Long Production Company will come to an end in October, and it has been confirmed that he will not renew [...]

Too much caution and too little lust squeeze much of the dramatic juice out of Ang Lee’s "Lust, Caution," a 2½–hour period drama that’s a long haul for relatively few returns. Adapted from a short story by the late Eileen Chang, tale of a patriotic student — who’s willing bait in a plot to assassinate [...]

The 64th Venice Film Festival is kicks off on Wednesday 29 August. Taiwanese director Ang Lee, Hong Kong actor Tony Leung, Taiwanese singerr Leehom Wong, Asian-American actress Joan Chen, Asian-American actress Michelle Yeoh are among the guests.

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Oscar winner Ang Lee, director of gay cowboy classic "Brokeback Mountain", returns to the theme of forbidden love with a sexually explicit thriller set in the teeming streets of 1940s Shanghai.
"Lust, Caution" is based on a short story by Eileen Chang, and follows a group of revolutionary students who hatch a plot to assassinate a [...]

Although often quoted by the media as complaining about the difficulty of filmmaking, Taiwan pop king and fresh director Jay Chou just can’t get enough from the success of his debut work.
The star, whose "Secret" hit the big screen in July as a box-office front runner, is planning mini stage dramas for his upcoming Shanghai [...]

Korean female group TSZX the Grace landed at No.1 on an online J-pop chart last month with their 5th single, "Piranha." Their track was the most "streamed" song in a day and landed them at No.1 on the J-pop chart just two days after their domestic album release. This album had actually been released [...]

Korean boy band TVXQ will sing the theme song for Bae Yong Joon’s new drama ‘The Story of the First King’s Four Gods’. The song is composed by famous Japanese composer and director Joe Hisaishi.
The drama will be aired in several Asian countries. It has already received considerable attention because of the cast members [...]

Rufa Mae Quinto became the latest victim of burglary as she lost valuable properties estimated at P2 million in worth.
According to Rufa Mae, intruders entered her house inside an exclusive subdivision in Quezon City. One of the robbers proceeded to her room where she was sound asleep and quickly stashed some of her [...]