Japanese pop star Koda Kumi will work with Korean boyband TVXQ in her next single, Last Angel.
The idea of working together first emerged when both parties met in last year’s Asia Song Festival. Last Angel will be Koda Kumi’s 38th single, and will be used as Japanese theme song for movie “Resident Evil: Extinction”, which is set to premiere in November 2007.
dol band Super Junior’s second regular album “Don’t Don” has been topping various charts since its release last Thursday on Sept. 20. The boy band has shown a drastic transformation in the new album.
Their album is number one on both the daily and weekly charts on Hanteo.com while posting top weekly sales for the third week of September on other music portals including Hot Tracks, Oi Music and Yes24.
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Hong Kong pop star Jacky Cheung has been blacklisted by Philippines Consulate from hiring Filipina maids.
According to Filipino Globe, a monthly magazine dedicated to Philippines workers in Hong Kong… Jacky and his wife are on the consulate’s ‘watch list’ for firing too many maids. For the past 3 years Jacky has hired a total of 21 maids, but only a few has managed to work till the end of their 2 years contract.
Jacky currently has hired 4 Filipina maids, but will not be allowed to renew their contract and will not be allowed to hire new maids.
Taiwanese boyband F4 held a press conference in Seoul to promote Taiwan tourism on September 21. F4 is the ambassador for Taiwan tourism under the Wish to See You in Taiwan project.
F4 was in Seoul to attend the Asia Song Festival, and took the chance to promote Taiwan as well. Some pics from the press conference…
Hong Kong actress and singer Cecilia Cheung on Saturday gave her first postpartum stage appearance to China Central Television.
The 27-year-old mother appeared in the mainland city of Suzhou with a slim figure, about two months after she gave birth to Lucas, her first child with her celebrity singer hubby, Nicholas Tse.
The couple were in Suzhou recording the “Happy China” concert series, which is to be aired later on CCTV.
Cecilia Cheung and her husband appeared on stage separately, each singing two songs. Tabloids say their brief appearances earned them one million yuan (US$133,157).
Korean pop star Rain is in Shanghai over the weekend to sign an endorsement contract for cake product. A contract signing ceremony was held with the attendance of press and some fans.
Rain will stay in China for another couple of days; he will be performing in a special concert from China Central Television (CCTV) to celebrate the mid-autumn festival on Tuesday (September 24).
Popular Korean star Lee Jun-ki has signed a contract with Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG) to manage his jobs and career in Chinese region (China, Hong Kong and Taiwan).
An official from EEG has confirmed that Jun-ki has signed the contract, and that EEG will officially announced his joining in October. The contract details are not released, but is believed to be worth at least 8 figures (that is at least 10 million Hong Kong dollars).
EEG is one of the largest entertainment groups in Hong Kong; their managed stars include TWINS, Joey Yung and Isabella Leong etc.
Korean movie Secret Sunshine is selected to represent its country to compete in the 80th Academy Awards (best foreign movie category).
Jeon Do-yeon, the leading actress, won the best actress award at Cannes Film Festival in May 2007. Her co-star in the movie is famous actor Song Kang-ho.
Hong Kong actress Anita Yuen has agreed to star in a TVB series (co-starring actor Michael Miu), which will start filming in November.
Anita started her entertainment career in 1990 after winning the Miss Hong Kong crown. She starred in a few TVB series before achieving great success in movie acting.
TVB has been working hard to get Anita back to star in some series, looks like TVB’s effort has finally paid off. There are also rumours that TVB is keen to get Anita’s husband (actor Julian Cheung) to work in some projects too.
TVB is Hong Kong largest commercial TV station; and probably the largest commercial Chinese program producer in the world.
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Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi poses for the October edition of Vanity Fair…
