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Chiu
Chiu is a romanization of various Chinese surnames, based on different varieties of Chinese. It may correspond to the surnames spelled in the following ways in Mandarin pinyin: * Zhào () or Zhāo (), from the Cantonese pronunciation * Zhāng (), from the Hokkien pronunciation; more commonly spelled Teoh or Teo * Zhōu (), from the Hokkien pronunciation * Qiū () or Qiú (), from a variant of the Mandarin Wade–Giles spelling Ch'iu * Jiù (), from the Mandarin Wade–Giles spelling Notable people * Angie Chiu (; born 1954), Hong Kong actress * Only Won (born Baldwin Chiu, 1974), American musician, actor, and producer * Chiu Ban It (; – 2016), Singaporean Anglican bishop * Barbara Chiu, Canadian table tennis player * Ben Chiu (; born 1970), Taiwan-born American technology entrepreneur * Bondy Chiu (; born 1973), Hong Kong actress and singer * Bryan Chiu (born 1974), Canadian footballer; centre in the Canadian Football League * Caroline Chiu (; born 1984), Hong Kong swimmer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiu Chang
Chiu Chang (;, aka Chang C. Chen, born 1950) is an American lawyer. She was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2001, representing the Democratic Progressive Party, and left office the next year. Education and early career Chiu studied botany at National Taiwan University before completing a master's degree in microbiology from Columbia University, She later earned a doctorate in biochemistry from Rutgers University in 1979. She received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1984.Chiu returned to Taiwan in 1989, and found work as a legal consultant. Chiu served as the Chief China Representative for Interjura, a joint venture law office in China consisting of 13 American and European law firms, in Beijing from 1987-1989. From 1989-2009, Chiu was a legal consultant for TenDiTong Legal Consultancy Services in Taipei, Taiwan. Political career Chiu ran as an independent legislative candidate representing Taipei in 1992. After she joined the Democratic Progressive Party in 1997, Chiu ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angie Chiu
Angie Chiu (; born 15 November 1954) is a Hong Kong actress, and was the third runner up in the 1973 Miss Hong Kong pageant. Early life In 1954, Chiu was born in Hong Kong. In 1971, Chiu graduated from Shung Tak Catholic English College and later worked as a flight attendant at Japan Airlines. In 1973, Chiu participated in the first Miss Hong Kong contest organized by TVB and won the third runner-up. Career Chiu started her career as a flight attendant for Japan Airline. In 1973, Chiu participated in Miss Hong Kong Pageant. In 1970s, Chiu's acting career began. Chiu is most noted for her leading role in ''The Heaven Sword And Dragon Saber'', ''Chor Lau Heung'', ''The Bund'', opposite Chow Yun-fat and Lui Leung-Wai. Chiu is a well known actress in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau and Mainland China. Personal life In 1975, Chiu married Wong Hon-wai (黃漢偉), a medical doctor. They had two children, Gary Wong (黃光宏) and Ronnie Wong (黃光宜). In 1983, Chiu divorced W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiu Chi-ling
Chiu Chi-ling (; born 1943) is a martial artist and actor who appears mostly in Kung Fu style movies produced in Hong Kong. He also teaches Hung Gar Kung Fu at Chiu Chi-ling Hung Gar Kung Fu Association, a San Francisco-based martial arts school he founded, and at the old Chiu Family Kwoon in Hong Kong rooted under the lineage of Lam Sai-wing. Every year he visits his students and grand students around the world and organizes worldwide Kung Fu tournaments. The Kung Fu style he is part of was passed down directly from southern shaolin temple and carries names like Hung Hei-gun and Wong Fei-hung. He has appeared in over 70 movies, both as an actor and stunt man. His abilities as an actor and martial arts practitioner has allowed him to work with most of the top Hong Kong film makers including Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat and Stephen Chow. He started practising Hung Gar Kung Fu when he was six years old under the tutelage of his father Chiu Kau (who won with the famous ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Chiu
Bryan Chiu (born August 16, 1974) is the former offensive line coach for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and current head coach of Vancouver College. He was a professional Canadian football centre for the Montreal Alouettes from 1997 to 2009. He has also served as the offensive line coach for the Toronto Argonauts and Ottawa Redblacks. High school Chiu played football in high school for the Vancouver College Fighting Irish in Vancouver, British Columbia. College years Chiu started his college football career playing ball for the Pacific Tigers and transferred to Washington State when Pacific dropped its football program. He started all 11 games he played with the Washington State Cougars in 1996 and graduated in 1997 with a degree in Sports Management. Professional career Since joining the Montreal Alouettes in 1997 Chiu proved himself to be one of the top centres in the CFL. He was honoured as both a CFL and East Division All-Star from 2000 consecutively thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiu Chuang-liang
Chiu Chuang-liang (; born 10 September 1955) is a Taiwanese politician. Chiu studied at the National Taipei University of Business and later earned a master's of arts in finance at Tamkang University. He served on the Taoyuan County Council prior to his 1998 election to the Legislative Yuan. He joined the People First Party in 2000, and served as legislative caucus leader. Chiu represented the PFP in the 2001 Taoyuan County magisterial election amid concerns about splitting the vote between supporters of the Pan-Blue Coalition. In February 2002, Chiu left the People First Party to become an independent politician. Later that year, he joined a caucus specifically convened for independents. In June 2004, Chiu co-founded the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union The Non-Partisan Solidarity Union is a political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was established on 16 June 2004, led by founding Chairwoman Chang Po-ya and emerged a major player in the national political scen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Chiu
Connie Chiu (born 1969) is a fashion model and jazz musician known for being the world's first fashion model with albinism. Chiu was born in British Hong Kong and grew up in Kowloon. The congenital absence of pigmentation in her skin and hair, makes them sensitive to the sun. To avoid Chiu's exposure to Hong Kong's intensive sun, her family moved to Sweden when she was seven years old. Connie Chiu was first introduced to modeling at age 21, when her sister asked her to become a model at one of her final shows. After sending a black-and-white photograph to French fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, he invited her to model at his autumn/winter 1994 show. At age 25, Chiu began modeling for fashion photographers such as Terry Richardson, Paul Burley, Heidi Niemala and Morten Smidt. Chiu later studied journalism. Chiu starred in the music video for the single "Stalker" by Recoil, the solo project of Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder Alan Charles Wilder (born 1 June 1959 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiu Chuang-chin
Chiu Chuang-chin ; born 12 July 1956) is a Taiwanese politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2008. Chiu studied architecture at Feng Chia University and completed graduate work at Dayeh University. Prior to his election to the Legislative Yuan in 2001, Chiu served one term on the Changhua County Council. In May 2002, he accused local Chinese police of extorting visitors from Taiwan. Five months later, it was reported that his visitor's visa to Hong Kong was being delayed, along with the visas of other Democratic Progressive Party lawmakers. In 2003, Chiu softened his stance on China, supporting regulations regarding Taiwan's investment in the Chinese economy. Chiu was reelected to the legislature the in 2004. He lost to Lin Tsang-min Lin or LIN may refer to: People *Lin (surname) (normally ), a Chinese surname *Lin (surname) (normally 蔺), a Chinese surname * Lin (''The King of Fighters''), Chinese assassin character *Lin Chow Bang, character in Fat Pizza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiu Ching-chun
Chiu Ching-chun (; born 8 December 1949) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Magistrate of Hsinchu County since 20 December 2009 until 25 December 2018. Education Chiu obtained his bachelor's degree from Minghsin University of Science and Technology and master's degree in business administration from University of St. Thomas in the United States. Hsinchu County magistracy 2009 county magistracy election Chiu assumed the magistracy of Hsinchu County on 20 December 2009 after winning the 2009 magisterial election as the Kuomintang candidate on 5 December 2009. 2014 county magistracy election In 2014, Chiu ran for reelection. He faced independent candidate Cheng Yung-chin, who had served as magistrate from 2001 to 2009. Chiu won the election. 2016 Mainland China visit In September 2016, Chiu with another seven magistrates and mayors from Taiwan visited Beijing, which were Hsu Yao-chang (Magistrate of Miaoli County), Liu Cheng-ying (Magistrate of Lienchiang County), Yeh Hui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qiū (surname)
Qiū or "Chiu" is the Hanyu Pinyin and Wade-Giles (widely used in Taiwan) transliteration, respectively, of the Chinese family names 丘/邱 (these two are genealogically linked), and 秋. They may be transliterated in various forms, as: * Qiū ( Mandarin, in Pinyin) *Chiu or Hew (in Taiwanese) and (Hakka, in Wade-Giles) * Kho or Khoe (in Teochew, Taiwanese Hokkien and Hokkien) *Khew or Khiu ( Fuzhounese) * Hiu or Kew (in Mandarin) * Yau (Cantonese, in Cantonese Pinyin) * Khau (in English) 丘/邱 also appear in Korea, where they may be transliterated as: * 구 (Korean in Hangul) * Gu, Ku, Koo (Korean in Revised Romanization). The surname also appears in the Philippines from immigrants from the South of China. It was anglicized as: * Cu or Kuh (in Tagalog) 丘/邱 ranks 151st in the ''Hundred Family Surnames'', and is very common in Luoyang, Henan or Wuxing, Zhejiang. 秋 is common with Taiwanese aboriginals, but is otherwise rare, ranking 237th. 邱 is a very rare su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiu Chun Kit
Chiu Chun Kit (, born 4 October 1983) is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a centre-back. International career Chiu made his international debut for Hong Kong on 14 November 2012 against Malaysia. He replaced Cheng Siu Wai Henry Cheng Siu Wai (, born 27 December 1981) is a former Hong Kongese professional footballer who played as a striker. Early life Cheng Siu Wai is born to a Hong Kongese father and a Thai mother. They separated when he was a young boy, his m ... on the 84th minute. :''As of 6 February 2013'' External links * Chiu Chun Kitat HKFA Player Information on SouthChinaFC.com Chiu Chun Kit profile on Citizen FC official website 1983 births Living people Hong Kong First Division League players Hong Kong Premier League players Hong Kong footballers Tai Po FC players Hong Kong Rangers FC players South China AA players Citizen AA players Yuen Long FC players Lee Man FC players Hong Kong international footballers Associati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhao (surname)
Zhao (; ) is a Chinese-language surname, means “walk quickly” and “jump” in ancient Chinese, and is the 1st surname in the famous Hundred Family Surnames – the traditional list of all Chinese surnames – because it was the emperor's surname of the Song Dynasty (960–1279) when the list was compiled. The first line of the poem is in the line 趙錢孫李 (Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li). Zhao is now ranking as the 7th most common surname in China and carried mainly by people of Mandarin-speaking regions. Zhao may be romanized as "Chiu" from the Cantonese pronunciation, and is romanized in Taiwan and Hong Kong as " Chao" as in the Wade–Giles system. It is cognate with the Vietnamese family name "Triệu" and with the Korean family name most commonly romanized as " Cho" (조). A 2013 study found it to be the 9th most common surname, shared by 26,700,000 people or 2.000% of the population, with the province with the most being Henan. The romanization is shared with the much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiu Chuang-huan
Chiu Chuang-huan (; 25 July 1925 – 2 July 2020) was a Taiwanese politician. He was the Vice Premier from 1981 to 1984. Born in Changhua, Chiu was of Hakka ancestry from Raoping, Chaozhou, Guangdong, China. Chiu died on 2 July 2020, aged 94. See also *List of vice premiers of the Republic of China
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