Tag - Hong Kong

Samantha Ko is in Hot Demand in China

In TVB for over 12 years, Samantha Ko (高海寧) appeared in four dramas last year but has yet to win Best Actress.  However, her attention-grabbing role in Nothing But Thirty <三十而已> made Samantha an overnight sensation in China, and the 34-year-old has received endless jobs. Besides endorsing sponsorships and attending various variety programs, Samantha starred in her first Mainland movie, Tan Tan...

Kathy Yuen Practices Advanced Yoga During Pregnancy

Always passionate about exercise, Kathy Yuen (湯怡) continues to practice yoga to help stretch her muscles during pregnancy. She recently shared a photo on social media of herself in a forearm handstand, which is an advanced pose in yoga, despite being in her fifth month of pregnancy. Wearing a sports bra which accentuated her growing belly, Kathy’s arms...

Joey Law Suffers Injury on Set of ”Return of the Cuckoo 2021”

Touted as one of TVB’s newly promoted Millennial Five Tigers, Joey Law (羅天宇) is currently filming for the new reboot of Return of the Cuckoo <十月初五的月光>.  While filming a car accident scene, he positioned himself incorrectly after the supposed collision, and suffered injuries to his head and neck. Admitting to having little experience in filming action scenes, Joey did not know...

Actress Explains How She Avoided The Edison Chen 2008 Scandal

People are often remembered for what they did, not what they didn’t do. While most want to be remembered for the good they’ve done, people often find it easier to recall the bad. In 2008, photos of 40-year-old actor Edison Chen (陳冠希) in bed with several well known female stars were leaked. Almost 13 years later,...

Anita Yuen Shares Stressful IVF Experience

Hosted by Candice Yu (余安安), Grace Chan (陳凱琳) and Mimi Lo (羅敏莊), TVB parenting show Mama’s Day <日日媽媽聲> premiered its first episode on April 10, with celebrity mom Anita Yuen (袁詠儀) as the first guest star to share her poignant experience with pregnancy. Anita Spills IVF Journey As her son Morton grew older, Anita and her husband Chilam Cheung (張智霖) tried hard for a second child but were unsuccessful. Attempting in vitro fertilization...

Priscilla Wong’s Ex Charged With Sexual Assault of Minors

Priscilla Wong‘s (黃翠如) former boyfriend, 40-year-old Hong Kong theater director and actor Wong Ka Wai (黃嘉威) was charged with 18 counts of sexual offenses and sentenced to seven and a half years’ in prison. Preyed on Young Girls Between 2014 and 2018, Wong met four underage girls through social media and coerced them to his studio to take nude...

‘Hunger Games-style’ fight for flights for Hongkongers stranded by coronavirus travel ban to get home from Britain

  Travellers walk through Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport, amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak on Feb 14, 2021.Reuters Hundreds of seats on two special flights intended to bring stranded Hongkongers home from Britain after the end of a coronavirus travel ban were snapped up in two hours on Thursday, in a process marred by a crashed...

Raymond Lam and Carina Zhang’s Love Rules

Married since 2019, Raymond Lam (林峯) and Carina Zhang (張馨月) are currently filming Chinese reality show Viva La Romance 5 <妻子的浪漫旅行5>. Although they are married, there are still many things they have not done together. They agreed to film the show because it allows them to see each other in a different light and fall in love again. As arranged by the show, Carina and the...

“Al Cappuccino” Actress Serene Lim Signs With Richard Li’s New Talent Agency

After winning first runner-up in Miss Chinese International 2017, Serene Lim‘s (林宣妤) most notable roles were in TVB’s Al Cappuccino <反黑路人甲> and Line Walker: Bull Fight <使徒行者3>. Despite not renewing her TVB contract last year and deciding to move back to Malaysia, this did not end her aspirations in acting. Now represented by billionaire Richard Li’s (李澤楷)  new company Noble Castle Asia, which is...

Owen Cheung and Brian Chu’s Risky Weight Loss Methods

Dropping extra pounds help actors look more chiseled on camera. In the latest episode of More than Mall <雙祥見>, hosts Wayne Lai (黎耀祥) and Louis Yuen (阮兆祥) discuss their weight loss stories and the extreme methods they have seen some actors use. To prepare for Death By Zero <殺手> and The Ringmaster <拳王> where he has shirtless action scenes, Wayne had to lose a significant amount of weight while training...