Rainie Yang has grown from tomboy to elegant and feminine. For her coming new album, she’ll be “exposing” more but in a graceful way. In the past, she’s always wearing outfit that hid her legs but this time, she said there’s more ’showing off the legs and shoulders’.

She’s becoming more mature but says she’s still young at heart. The popular singer/actor recently expressed her thoughts on love, in particular a painful one. While she was out on a few dates with this person, she noticed he kept turning his cellphone off. She told her date that he doesn’t need to keep turning his cellphone off just in case of important calls. However, her date told her that he wants to spend quality time with her without interruption and she fell for the “sweet talk”, only finding out the truth later that he did that all the time because he was cheating with her due to a ‘clingy girlfriend’. Rainie said she felt like a complete fool to believe their relationship was ‘real’.

Her new album is still untitled and yet to be confirmed. As for her new album concept, she’s going with the visual approach (see image above) which, she designed herself.

Source: Jpop Asia

Recently Takeshi Kaneshiro (Gum Sing Mo)’s romance was uncovered. He was still busy promoting WU XIA in the Mainland. Yesterday Gum Sing Mo along with director Peter Chan Ho Sun and Wai Ying Hung attended a Chengdu, Sichuan press conference and finally responded for the first time.

Recently the media caught Gum Sing Mo and a mystery woman going out and appearing to be close. His manager has already denied their romance. Yesterday a reporter asked whether Gum Sing Mo was in love or was the news speculation due to WU XIA’s release? Gum Sing Mo said, “Earlier my manager already said it, indeed it was not what it looked like.
Everyone know I wouldn’t be deliberately low key and not promote. Wu XIA’s schedule was moved up by a month. Several actors’ promotional schedules were all messed up. Now we would try to coordinate when we can. Thank you media for your care and well wishes.”

Gum Sing Mo in the film also talked about the experience of working on WU XIA. He said that in the film she spoke Sichuan dialect for the first time. The team hired a tutor for him. The tutor was very pleased with his performance, at least giving it 80 points. Chan Ho Sun also praised Gum Sing Mo’s determination.
Everyday after the shoot he would ask for the next day’s script so the tutor could record the lines into his MP3 player for him to recite. Gum Sing Mo whether in the film and in life would not try anything dangerous. The Sichuan dialect to him this time was a cliff, he had to decide whether to jump. As a director, he of course had to jump with him.

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On the 14th, Arron Yan YaLun participated in Hit FM’s White Day(1) celebration; he appeared as a “Piano Prince” and played with a group of kindergarteners. The children kissed him and praised his lips as “so soft!” Recently, rumors of Fahrenheit’s disbanding have been rampant; Arron excitedly and proudly revealed that Fahrenheit will be appearing as a group on the 25th in Malaysia. They will be filming a commercial together, as well as appearing at a promotional event. The four will, together, be making more than $10 million NTD. It will also be the first time Arron is appearing with the other three Fahrenheit members since releasing his solo album.

Arron will be donating $1 million NTD, along with some basic goods and materials, to Japan’s disaster relief efforts. Several Japanese fans actually traveled to Taiwan to participate in his autograph concert a few days ago. One of the fans was actually from one of the Japanese districts affected by the earthquake; because she had gone to Taiwan, she escaped the disaster entirely. Some of her friends and classmates, however, weren’t so lucky: they fell victim to the tsunami.(2) Out of gratefulness, the fan’s mother purchased 100 copies of Arron’s album.

Arron consulted a “fortune telling” expert before releasing his album; he was told to wear all red on the day of his pre-order autograph concert for good luck. The weather that day really was beautiful. Moreover, when he was on his way to the event, riding the high-speed rail, media bigwig 邱復生 Chiu FuSheng saw him, but failed to recognized him, though he praised Arron as “good-looking” and even gave him his business card. Arron was struck and overwhelmed by his good luck; he felt he owed it all to his lucky red clothes!

(1) White Day is another Valentine’s Day, celebrated by a few countries in Asia, mainly Japan, Taiwan, and S. Korea. Western Valentine’s Day in Asia is a bit of a role reversal: girls typically give homemade or store-bought chocolates to their crushes. It’s on White Day that the boys respond with their own presents.
(2) The article doesn’t really clarify whether this girl’s classmates were injured by the tsunami or whether they actually died… either way, though, presumably they were in school when disaster struck, which is why her mom is “grateful.”
UPDATE: Arron confirmed the deaths of some of the girl’s friends on a recent LIVE episode of Yu Le Bai Fen Bai [100% Entertainment].

News Source: ChinaTimes, http://asianfanatics.net/forum/
Translation Credit: tammiest @ http://asianfanatics.net/

BEIJING : Hollywood is usually the place to see and be seen, but for Taiwanese pop singer Jay Chou, star of the smash hit “The Green Hornet,” Tinseltown offers a welcome break from the paparazzi in Asia.

“As an artist, I need a lot of space which I cannot really get in many places in Asia,” Chou told reporters Monday ahead of the Chinese premiere of the superhero flick, which co-stars Seth Rogen.

“It felt like I was having a vacation in the United States – I took my mother to the production, and it felt really good to have some time for myself. I didn’t have that feeling of people surreptitiously taking my picture.”

“The Green Hornet” – the tale of a young playboy businessman who becomes a crime fighter – topped the box office in its opening weekend in North America, taking in US$34 million, according to industry data.

Chou, largely unknown in the United States but hugely popular in Asia, plays the role of Kato, sidekick to the Green Hornet played by Rogen.

French director Michel Gondry confessed to not knowing how famous Chou was when he started considering him for the part of Kato, adding he and Rogen – who wrote the screenplay – later hesitated about casting a pop star.

“We had a conference on Skype where Seth was reading with Jay and we felt there was already chemistry, even though it was with a 10-second delay, and we liked him for his acting,” Gondry said.

Rogen has since declared himself a fan of Chou’s music, and he and Gondry joked that the Taiwanese singer would “force” them to listen to some of his tracks.

“Jay many times took us in his car with his bodyguard and forced us to listen to his music very loud, and if we didn’t like it, he would beat us up,” Gondry joked.

Chou had to learn English for the part, and acknowledged the language barrier would be a challenge for any future work in Hollywood. But Rogen praised his co-star for his quick mastery of the language.

“He knew very little (English) when we started filming and a few weeks in, he could improvise his own dialogue and come up with his own jokes, which was very frustrating because that took me years to learn how to do,” he said.

Source: Channel News Asia

Since the explosion with burns from the accident, it has been over a month and a half for artist Selina, she has continued to treatment at the hospital for debridement, skin grafting, rehab and other treatments. Ren Ba’s latest article includes happy news shared on his blog, suffering for 45 days; Selina yesterday for the first time is able to touch the ground with her feet trying to sit on the wheelchair.

Yesterday Selina was observed for the 3rd time of her recovery from skin grafting, Ren Ba quoted what the doctor said: “Although there are still some skin that needs to be repaired, but it’s quite optimistic of the results from the skin grafting.” Besides good progress from the skin grafting, Selina has never left her hospital room since the accident on Oct 22nd, so finally after the incident of 46 days she is able to try her first attempt to bending her knees on the wheelchair.

Ren Ba expressed, Selina originally relied on the nurse to carry her to the wheelchair, at the end she was able to hold her pain and with the aid of the nurse to try to put her legs on the ground, then slowly sat down in the chair.

Holding the pain and using strength to sit in the wheelchair, Selina’s face was flushed red, Ren Ba said once she firmly sat in the chair, at that moment she excitedly cried. Ren Ba feeling full of sadness said to Selina, “Child, you’ve worked hard the past 45 days!”

Another article with additional news about Yu Hao Ming
Source: YAM

But when Selina is trying her first steps since her injuries, the also injured Yu Hao Ming is rumoured that his recovery is not as optimistic. The Hunan TV station that invested in the production of “I have a date with spring” earlier said Yu Hao Ming will be attending the New Years events, and on the 6th they said again, he has been discharged from the hospital, but is unable to attend. The staff from the management company said privately, his recovery has not been satisfactory, they are preparing to transfer him to Hong Kong for treatment. His offical fan club has also stated “he still can not bend the arm, the face is still red and swollen, preparing to transfer him to a more professional recovery hosptial for treatments.”

Source: http://n.yam.com/cna…1207666300.html
Translated by Cmiley @ Asianfanatics

TAIPEI: Taiwan singer Show Luo revealed the shocking truth behind his ‘Cyber-sex’ scandal last year, during an appearance on a talk show with his mother on Monday, reported Taiwan media.

Luo got into trouble last year when a girl claimed the star took his shirt off and started chatting her up when they conversed via webcam.

The girl produced footage of the incident and Luo admitted to it before issuing a tearful apology on the same talk show after the news broke.

At the time, Luo claimed he was “just trying to make new friends” and “was set up” when he let his guard down.

However, the popular singer surprised everybody on the talk show set Monday when he dismissed everything that happened as untrue almost a year after the incident.

“My mum has always taught me ‘No matter how poor your family background is, we don’t steal or rob and eat our rice with dignity. If you haven’t done anything, you have to speak out’,” said Luo when he explained the whole incident.

Luo pointed out that he actually did nothing wrong and his admission of guilt was simply a calculated move to make the whole scandal go away more quickly.

“If I didn’t admit I was guilty then, everybody would think I was making up excuses, so I shouldered the blame,” said Luo, who expressed that taking the blame for something he didn’t do tormented him for the longest time.

According to Luo, the footage had been doctored to frame him.

“At home, I never wear a shirt. But I felt it was not appropriate [to go shirtless on webcam] and put on a vest.

“In the end, the order of the events was reversed [in the footage provided by the girl] so it looked as though I was already wearing a vest and took it off,” said the 31-year-old singer.

Perhaps the biggest shocker is Luo’s revelation that it was no girl he was chatting with on webcam that fateful day, but a guy who was infatuated with him.

Source: Channel News Asia

Yesterday night (28th of October), when Edison Chen attended a fashion event in Beijing he expressed that he will be starring in Jay Chou’s “Initial D 2″. This movie will begin filming next year, the director of the last movie Andrew Lau will be the producer. Jay Chou, who was originally the male lead, will upgrade to become the director. Today (29th of October), the reporters called Andrew Lau himself, he confirmed that he was currently exploring this project. Besides Edison Chen and Jay Chou starring, he didn’t reveal anyone else.

Andrew Lau told reporters, he and Jay Chou are indeed in the progress of moving this project forward. After the previous movie “Initial D” was released in 2005 there have been rumours about a sequel, but after 5 years there was still nothing. Andrew Lau explained: “We couldn’t find a suitable entry point, plus we thought at the time filming racing cars was a bit dangerous. If we start filming next year we will be fully prepared in terms of safety.”

Early on in 2005 not long after “Initial D” came out, Andrew Lau and Alan Mak revealed that they planned to start filming the sequel in 2006 at the Alpes, they confirmed Jay Chou was going to continue to play Fujiwara Takumi. At the time it was rumoured that there was a rift between Edison Chen and Alan Mak and that he might be taken out of the sequel. Now 5 years have passed, Jay Chou himself has become a director, Edison Chen has experienced the setback of the “photo scandal”.

Source: China Daily
Translated by: http://www.jaychoustudio.com

Selina burned while filming, since returning from Shanghai to Taiwan on a special flight the night before, yesterday performed a 5 hour debridement surgery at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Ren’s father Ren Ming Ting says, his daughter is actually more optimistic and courageous than they had thought.

Since 9:00am morning Selina was operated to remove the damaged skin tissues, than placed with the artificial until completion at 2:00pm in the afternoon, the surgery was successful, she regained consciousness by 3:00pm in the afternoon, Ren Ba says; “Xuan Xuan’s eyes were in tears, mood was a bit emotional, it hurts, but she can bear it, really makes people feel dismayed.” Because of the anesthesia, Selina was sleeping most of the time.

In fact Ren Ba was busy all night, early yesterday morning he went to keep watch at the hospital. He wrote on the site of his feelings: “After 3 days of painful suffering, seeing my precious’s whole body wrapped in gauze brave and strong. Ren Ma has also brought along past days of collection of all friends’ care and warmth to her. Next days to come, it’s hard to even think about it. But precious you’re not alone. Love you!”

Selina’s Fiancé Chang Cheng Zhong Yesterday Evening Visits at 7:00pm, No Comment.

They returned to Taiwan within the crucial golden 72 hours, performed surgery, next Selina will go through 2-3 weeks of recuperation, then to determine the healing of the skin grafting, plastic surgery and other follow-up treatment and rehabilitation time. During this time, HIM general manager He Yan Ling says to avoid infection, have declined all visitors to family only, so Ella & Hebe her two good sisters will not visit the isolation ward in the meantime; to prevent infection and cause emotion to Selina.

There have been many rumours online; there are claims to be witnesses’ re-enactments of the explosive scene, pointing out Selina repeatedly requested assurance “must be safe”. He Yan Ling points: “In the contract, there are clauses of not necessary to have the artists to personally take part in the danger scenes, if Selina thought it wasn’t possible, she won’t do it, but at this time we are still waiting for the filming crew’s statement.”

Not able to see her good sister, Hebe wrote online “Wifey, I want to hug you”, Ella wrote: “Does it hurt, at this moment my heart shatters, your big tear drops keep dropping, but you didn’t forget to be courageous. Princess Selina, you’ve been injured, you are still my Princess.”

Including November 6th the beginning of the Flower Expo function, it will be carried on by the 2. Hao Lung Bin said yesterday, SHE’s voice and reputation is already the expo’s favourite, Selina is forever the flower expo’s goodwill ambassador, spokesperson, under any circumstances will not affect her endorsement.

Source: UDN
Translated by Cmiley @ http://asianfanatics.net

Terri only had a towel covering her breasts on the cover of her new album, and wore a 5kg red-lipped hair accessory while balancing a tiny red sandal on her foot. Within ten minutes, she complained of a headache, and said “There’s so many challenges in becoming a singer! This is just too much! It’s very traumatizing for me!”

Actually, Terri has always loved the red-white sandal, and loves going to the nightmarket, contrary to many people’s belief that she refuses to wear anything that isn’t a brand name label. She loves to mix and match nightmarket finds with her brand name clothing to create a style entirely her own! In addition to having a sense of fashion, she is a multi-faceted artist and socialite on the outside, and warm and soft on the inside. Terri has always wanted to have a music career, and therefore has taken pains to show that she isn’t just a money-loaded socialite a la Paris Hilton. She will depend on herself and work hard to build up a rep worthy of Lady Gaga’s approval.

Nicknamed “Rebellious socialite”, in late June she passed the tests and challenges set by Golden Typhoon Records, and confirmed that she will be releasing “Unkept Secret” (TN: Not exact) in late July, an album set to challenge the Chinese music industry. Golden Typhoon Records has chosen to release her album in the heat of summer, and with her English name being “Terri Kwan”, they have decided to string an acronym “3K Queens” to associate her with their other artists, British singer Kylie Minogue and American Katy Perry. Golden Typhoon Records hopes that with this ultimate card, the three ladies will be able to have an explosive presence in the summer music market, and have also given Terri an unbelievable opportunity with such a prestigious lineup!

Yesterday, Terri worked on her MV from 8 am to 12 am, so Golden Typhoon’s workers ordered a specially designed red-lipped cake to match the one in her MV to celebrate her hard work. When she saw the cake, Terri exclaimed, “I totally forgot that my birthday is coming up!” Then she choked, “I was just about to ask the Director why he wouldn’t start filming yet, after making me wait so long, turns out they wanted to give me a big surprise!”

Source: nownews
Translation: casablanca– @ http://asianfanatics.net/

Jay Chou’s Superman might not be able to fly, but he sure saved the day for Cape No. 7 director Wei Te-Sheng. The star apparently loaned 40 million (NTD) to the director for his new movie Seediq Bale. Filming of the epic began last November and is not expected to complete until July. The film’s financial troubles has been widely reported as its budget has already ballooned to a whopping 600 million. Most recently, the production is said to be owing 2.6 million in car rentals.

Jay Chou reportedly made 550 million last year. His company JVR Music confirmed the rumor was indeed true, “Jay supports good movies, good directors. They needed money at the time, so Jay helped out, but we can’t disclose the actual amount.”

Seediq Bale producer Huang Chih-Ming responded, “Director Wei worked as the assistant director on the pre-production of Monga. We later collaborated on Secret. He thinks it’s very cool of director Wei to make Seediq Bale. He loaned us some money after knowing about our financial difficulties. It was paid back to him in April. We had a written acknowledgment. He only charged us $1 for interest, so we are very grateful for his help.”

Overview of Super “Charitable” Man
(All values in NTD)

1 million – President Chou donated to help a female dancer with getting a heart transplant.
13.2 million – Donated to the Sichuan Earthquake
12.8 million – Donated 2 million to the 88 flood initially and sponsored 300 children in the disaster area.
40 million – Loaned to Seediq Bale

Source: Cpop Access