News Wrap for Week 12.16.2007 - 12.22.2007

Yesterday, Miriam Yeung, Hins Cheung, Vincy Chan, Kelvin Kwan, Kay Tse and others attended the 2007 Metro Radio Music Awards' Voting Promotion. During the event the top 3 Metro Radio World's Hit Singer, as of December 15th, was revealed and they are, in no order, Andy Lau, Eason Chan and Miriam. Miriam modesty says she thinks Eason has the best chance of winning, and jokes because he is the "universal king".

Miriam was asked about the TVB Jade Solid Gold Round 3 Voting incident a couple of days ago where Eason left the studio in the middle of filming. She supports Eason and feels he didn't do anything wrong, saying, "He only wanted to perform his best for everyone to watch. There is nothing wrong with having a high standard for performance. It was his straight forward personality." Asked whether she knew all about the incident, she responds, "Denise and I were talking at the time and thought we could leave after our performance."

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Karen Mok announced her relationship with Stephen Fung had ended earlier in the year. The news shocked many of their friends and industry people. At the premiere of the new film Trivial Matters, Eason Chan, one of their friends responds, "I haven't spoken to Stephen in a while, but I will call him and ask him about it. This is other people's business so I won't say anything further, but this [way of announcement] is refreshing."

Source: sina 12.16.2007

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The premiere of the new film Trivial Matters 破事兒 was held on Sunday, December 16, 2007. Because the film has 7 independent stories there are an abundance of stars, including Gillian Chung, Shawn Yue, Juno Mak, Eason Chan, Stephanie Cheng, Conroy Chan, Jan Lamb, Krystal Tin, Stephy Tang, Chapman To who is also a producer of this film, etc.

In this film, Eason acts opposite newcomer Isabel Chan and the two have numerous intimate scenes, but there was no awkwardness and the two had fun.

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Yesterday, a press conference was held for the upcoming TVB special, literally translated: Learn. Care. Story of a Million People 了解. 關懷. 一百萬人的故事, which will be hosted by Sandra Ng. TVB executive Stephen Chan, host Sandra Ng and participant Eason Chan were in attendance for the press conference. Learn. Care. Story of a Million People is a concept Sandra created for celebrities to use their influence to visit, film, and have those fortunate enough to not be living in poverty to realize that although Hong Kong is a modern city, there are still over a million people living in poverty.

For this TVB special, Sandra invited some of her industry friends to participate, including Carina Lau, Eric Tsang, Kelly Chen and Eason Chan, who will all personally visit and film real life stories in hopes that more fortunate Hong Kong citizens will care for those in poverty. The filming will begin at the end of December. Sandra says that after giving birth to her daughter she has learnt to think for the long-run. She questioned herself asking, what if she passed away? What if she can no longer work and provide for her daughter? What if she did not save up enough money for her daughter? All these questions made her range of thinking wider and made her realize that although Hong Kong is a prosperous city, there are still over a million people living in poverty. Realizing this, she came up with an idea to try to influence the more fortunate to care for those not as fortunate. She says that if one million can lower to five hundred thousand, it would already be very good. To film this special Sandra had to reject filming a series, in regard to this Sandra says that there will always be opportunities to film series, but filming a meaningful special is hard to come by.

Sandra revealed that Eason gets emotional easily, saying that he cried just listening to stories of those in poverty, and when asked to participate he immediately said yes. When asked if he is more emotional because of the birth of his daughter, Eason responds that it is not the case. He says that he isn't someone that easily cries, but as he has gotten older he has become more sensitive. When he hears of emotional stories, he is now easily brought to tears. In regards to helping film this special, Eason hopes that he can change people's view of those in need.

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Yesterday night, December 16, 2007, as Ambassador of Hong Kong's Cancer Fund Sammi Cheng made an appearance at an event for the Fund. During the event Sammi, who is currently filming 查之女 with Eason Chan, was asked regarding Eason's recent temper flare, his incident at the TVB Jade Solid Gold Round 3 Voting event, and if he showed any signs of a temper during filming. Sammi responds, "There hasn't been any temper problems while filming. He actually talked to me about the JSG incident and I heard he apologized, so I think everything is okay. He's controlled his temper well during filming and sometimes he'll turn to comfort me."

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Yesterday, Mainland vocal powerhouse Han Hong announced she will be holding her first personal concert in 5 years, on January 26, 2008. When asked about the guests she will be inviting for the upcoming concert, she says she has invited some of her industry friends but a couple of them are busy with their own work that day, including Andy Hui. She has asked Eason Chan to be her guest, but he has work at 5 pm that day and says he will see if he can catch a flight afterwards and make it to her concert in time.

Sources:
sina
takungpao
cctv
12.17.2007

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On Sunday night, December 16, 2007, Olympic Gymnast Liu Xuan 劉璇 was a presenter at the 2007 TVB8 Mandarin Music On Demand (MOD) Awards Presentation where she revealed she currently likes Eason Chan's songs. Whenever she goes to karaoke she will tell her friends to sing Eason's songs, especially 富士山下. Liu Xuan, who is an Ambassador for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, did not reveal how much TVB paid her for her participation. As for whether she will become a gymnastics coach, Liu Xuan says not for the time being because there are a lot of responsibilities involved with being a coach.

Source: sina 12.18.2007

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Two days ago, on December 19th, Hacken Lee shot a music special for TVB in HD for the first time. For his music special, Hacken invited Eason Chan, Sammi Cheng and TVB executive Stephen Chan. During the special, Hacken and Eason performed each other's songs individually and together. The two were having a lot of fun and jumping around causing a lot of sweat on their foreheads. And because this was special was filmed in HD, the director asked the two to re-shoot the segment and calm down a bit, in essence, hinting that their sweat would be apparent when aired on television.

During the special, Eason asked Hacken why his hair has been dyed blond for so many years. Hacken replies that he won his first [TVB] Male Singer Award after dyeing his hair and although he isn't a superstitious person he kept it blond as a form of luck. Hacken then points out that Eason won his first [TVB] Male Singer Award after he permed his hair. In response to this, Eason wonders how the award results will turn out if the two of them permed and dye their hair blond. Eason then jokes that he cannot dye his hair blond because he doesn't have much hair and he will look like a fat chicken.

According to fans who attended the filming of the special, when Hacken went backstage to fix his makeup Eason opted to talk to his fans. He went over to his fans and spoke with them for a while and joked that they should secretly sit within Hacken's fan area and try to find out what's going on. He continued to joke that while they are in the area they should raise the signs that say "Eason".

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In celebration of 8th Anniversary of Macau's Special Administrative Region, a number of singers performed at a concert, including Josie Ho, Eason Chan, Sammi Cheng, Andy Hui, Miriam Yeung, Denise Ho, George Lam, Hacken Lee, Janice, Hins Cheung and others.

Sammi, who has recently been filming with Eason, was asked about Eason as an actor, she responds "He is a good actor, he is willing to put effort into his acting. I recently told him that I dreamt of him and Hilary again. In the past, before his daughter was born, I dreamt that he and Hilary would have a daughter. Recently, I dreamt that he and Hilary would have a boy. I don't even know why I keep dreaming of him and his family." In regards to these dreams, Eason responds, "I don't know why she dreams of us, maybe we were somehow connected in our previous life. Maybe I was her dog. Maybe Hilary was related to her somehow." When asked if Sammi had an attitude while filming, Eason says, "Even before she opens her mouth, I'm already talking away. She doesn't even have the chance to say anything. We are friends and we talk as friends."

During that night, Hilary Tsui revealed that she was not any good at gambling, but Eason is extremely good at Majong. She also says that they've already brought their daughter to play and celebrate Christmas because they are afraid that there would be too many people during Christmas.

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There have been more and more awards every year in the Hong Kong music industry, but the industry lacks an award ceremony voted by the singers themselves. In an undisclosed format of voting, we (The Sun 太陽報) polled 100 individuals, including Radio DJs, music people, songwriters, mainstream singers, non-mainstream singers, and others. Without considering popularity, without considering sales, and with the closest contact to the Hong Kong music industry, they were asked to choose this year's Male and Female Singer, Male and Female Newcomer, and Album of the Year. Here are the results:

Female Singer
Joey Yung - 60%
Sammi Cheng - 18%
Miriam Yeung - 12%
Denise Ho - 9%
Others - 1%

Male Singer
Eason Chan - 82%
Hins Cheung - 12%
Leo Ku - 3%
Others - 3%

Female Newcomer
Sherman Chung - 48%
Elanne Kong - 21%
Wada Hiromi - 21%
Others - 10%

Male Newcomer
Jason Chan - 39%
Ken Hung - 36%
Pakho Chou - 15%
Others - 10%

Album of the Year
Listen to Eason Chan - Eason Chan - 39%
Read My Senses... - Ivana Wong - 21%
Chapel of Dawn - Juno Mak - 12%
Process - Candy Lo - 9%
Others - 19%

Sources:
sina
on.cc
12.21.2007