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Miss Hong Kong Ellyn Ngai is flanked by first runner-up Emily Leung (left) and second runner-up Amina Yeung. Photo: Dickson Lee

Miss Hong Kong Ellyn Ngai aims to promote women’s rights, redefine beauty

‘Michele Reis of City U’ says she wants to use status to give back to society, urges more support for women in coming policy address.

‘Michele Reis of City U’ says she wants to use status to give back to society, urges more support for women in coming policy address

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‘Michele Reis of CityU’: Ellyn Ngai, 23, crowned Miss Hong Kong 2024

Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung and Stephen Chow were all in this 80s TV show

Chinese uber-influencer ‘Crazy Xiaoyangge’ expands to Hong Kong

Three Sheep rents a 5,570 sq ft office for around US$23,000 a month as agents note an uptick in inquiries from mainland-based companies.

Three Sheep Group, the firm founded by Zhang Qingyang, known as Crazy Xiaoyangge (in red and black jacket), held a ceremony for the opening of its Hong Kong branch on Thursday. Photo: Three Sheep Group

Hong Kong broadcaster TVB net losses drop 65% year on year to HK$143 million

Rebound in advertising revenue drives robust growth of broadcasting business in first half of year, with company’s operating costs also lowered.

Mocked online, TVB actor turned to painting. Now he has a solo show

Hong Kong actor and artist Karl Ting explores identity, love and societal pressure in his first solo show of paintings, “Who Are You?”, on display at an art gallery in the city’s Sheung Wan neighbourhood.

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TV gold? When TVB battled ATV to screen the 1988 Seoul Olympics

TVB obtained a High Court injunction to stop ATV’s monopoly on screening the 1988 Olympics in Hong Kong – but a multimillion-dollar deal allowed both to broadcast the games

Deacon Chiu Te-ken, Chairman of Asia Television Ltd (ATV), displays an advertising package for the Seoul Olympic Games in 1987. Photo: SCMP

Trio’s Instagram clip hasn’t clouded view, Hong Kong reporter tells assault trial

Prosecution witness says three defendants hurt his eyes and ears by shooting jets of water at him with ‘relatively powerful’ toy guns.

Hong Kong reporter soaked in Songkran assault case ‘wouldn’t have told police’

Three men accused of assaulting three auxiliary police constables and two journalists by attacking them with water guns at Thai new year festival in 2023.

How Frances Yip helped put Cantopop on the map, seen in a new exhibition

Yip is in Hong Kong to give 2 concerts and to attend the exhibition ‘Soundtrack of Our Lives: Joseph Koo x James Wong x the Rise of Cantopop’ held at Tai Kwun, where she was once an auxiliary policewoman

Singer Frances Yip today, at the “Soundtrack of Our Lives” exhibition that traces the importance of her collaboration with songwriters James Wong and Joseph Woo in the rise of Cantopop. Photo: Abdela Igmirien

Blossoms novelist Jin Yucheng on his writerly art and debut Hong Kong show

Chinese author and artist Jin Yucheng, whose novel was made into the TV series Blossoms Shanghai by Wong Kar-wai, holds his first art exhibition in Hong Kong featuring evocative portrayals of China.

Writer and artist Jin Yucheng. Photo: Lu Yuanmin

Hong Kong TVB host Koba dies at 29 after 6-month battle with rare cancer

Fans pay tribute to Clark Chan, known by stage name Koba, after death announced on his Instagram account.

‘I will wait and marry her after’: ex-TVB star’s fiancée jailed for 25 months

Wang Qingxia convicted of five charges related to overstaying in Hong Kong and forging university certificates to obtain entry permit.

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Hong Kong’s TVB gets nod to sell stake to finance firm in push for drama funds

Communications Authority says it has approved an application by TVB to allot 8.7 million new shares to GF Global Capital.

Broadcaster TVB has racked up losses for six straight years. Photo: Yik Yeung-man

Inside look at inspiration for Doraemon’s limitless world ahead of Hong Kong show

Jitsuko Katsumata, daughter of late Japanese manga master Fujiko F. Fujio, says father cherished ‘daily life’ inspiration in creating beloved characters.

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Children pose for a photo with Doraemon in Sai Ying Pun. Photo: Yik Yeung-man

Profile | She was Hong Kong’s ‘happy fruit’: the life of ‘Fei Fei’, comedian Lydia Sum

With Lydia Sum ‘everything came from the heart’, said the TV producer who turbocharged the career of the comedian and actress. Known as Fei Fei, she is remembered for the joy she brought audiences.

Answers sought on approval of channel deal by Hong Kong’s TVB, satellite TV firm

TVB has leased a channel to a satellite television firm, allowing it to broadcast content without the need to go through the complicated process of applying for a free-to-air licence.

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Cantopop singer Hubert Wu fined for bringing banned e-cigarettes into Hong Kong

Singer pleads guilty after 129 heated tobacco products and vaping devices discovered in luggage and coat.

Hubert Wu said he had been helping a friend purchase the products in Guangzhou and claimed to have little knowledge of Hong Kong’s import regulations. Photo: Instagram@hubertwu

Letters | Dub TVB’s wuxia classics into English for the world

Readers discuss the value of making English versions of television series based on novels by Jin Yong, the potential for collaboration between Western and Chinese medicine, and China’s tech advancement.

Editorial | Hong Kong strikes gold with TV deal for Olympics

By stepping in to buy broadcast rights, the government has ensured a Paris summer spectacular for sports fans.

Hong Kong’s TVB reduces losses by 5.5% to HK$763 million

‘We are cautiously optimistic that our Hong Kong TV broadcasting business segment will see continued growth and recovery in this year,’ chairman Thomas Hui says.

TVB is Hong Kong’s biggest free-to-air broadcaster. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

3 Hongkongers plead not guilty to shooting water guns at police at 2023 festival

Taxi driver, clerk and adult products retailer face five counts of assaulting three auxiliary constables and two TVB reporters at Songkran festival on April 8, 2023.

Three men have pleaded not guilty to soaking police officers with water at a Thai new year event last year. Photo: Youtube @Bravedogdog

Can Alibaba’s HK$5 billion plan put Hong Kong films back on the global stage?

Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group’s plan to spend billions on local film and culture sectors has boosted investor confidence, experts says.

Profile | Ada Choi: from beauty queen to lauded actress and family woe to wedded bliss

Ada Choi’s acting career began after she was named second runner-up in the 1991 Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant. Her life has had its ups and downs, but is ‘so good’ since moving to China and marrying.

Fans pay tribute to late Hong Kong drama actor Gregory Charles Rivers

Australian actor, who was famous for fluency in Cantonese and appeared in more than 200 Hong Kong TV dramas, found dead at home on Friday.

The late Gregory Charles Rivers is remembered by his fans for his championing of Cantonese culture and his love of nature. Photo: Nora Tam

Charmaine Sheh’s journey from 90s pageant contestant to TVB queen

How the Hong Kong actress went from Miss Hong Kong second runner-up to Story of Yanxi Palace star and best actress award winner for The Queen of News

Queen of TVB: Hong Kong actress Charmaine Sheh Sze-man has starred in hit shows and modelled Tiffany & Co. jewellery. Photo: @charmaine_sheh/Instagram

Who are the 3 Hong Kong actors in Nicole Kidman’s Expats? Meet the cast

The TV series stars Kidman, Sarayu Blue and Ji-young Yoo, but Hong Kong actors feature in the Amazon Prime TV show too – meet Flora Chan, Bonde Sham and Will Or

Letters | Wong Kar-wai’s Blossoms Shanghai is a kiss of life to a declining dialect

Readers discuss the Hong Kong auteur’s first foray into television, the fortunes of TVB, appropriate dress for young women, and what Hong Kong officials should do with their time.

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Television Broadcasts (TVB)
Television Broadcasts is at present Hong Kong's sole free television broadcaster. Established in 1967, it is one of the largest commercial Chinese programme producers in the world.
last updated:
23 August, 2024
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