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Michele Lean
Michele Samantha Yi Wen Lean ) (born 1 September 1982) known professionally as Michele Lean is a Malaysian television presenter, writer, actress, and commercial talent. From 2007 – 2010 she was a television presenter on China Central Television (CCTV)( 中国中央电视台), hosting CCTV-9's Travelogue and Center Stage. She is a Malaysian citizen and Australian permanent resident who currently resides in Beijing, China. Early life Lean is of Malaysian Chinese descent with Tahitiian lineage from the maternal side of her family. She is also of Iban heritage and grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Borneo, Hong Kong and Melbourne. She is the eldest of three children. Education She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communications from the University of Melbourne, before moving to China in 2007. She trained in acting at the New York Film Academy in New York. Media career While in university, she was the editor-in-chief of the (now defunct) Melbourne-based lifestyle publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuala Lumpur
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Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson Quan
Nelson Quan (, born October 14, 1984, Houston, Texas, USA) is a Chinese-American film editor, director and producer. His most recent work as an editor for the Volkswagen People's Car Project won the project the Golden Lion Award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Branded Entertainment. He is known for editing the Chinese remake, What Women Want (2011 film), What Women Want (2011) () and produced The Criminally Inept (2006) along with being one of the first students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Academy for Creative Media. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, and raised by two Chinese parents. He attended the University of Hawaii, Mānoa's Academy for Creative Media and attained a B.A. in Film and TV Producing. Under the mentor and direction of former Tri-Star President of Production, Chris Lee, Nelson joined with three other interns to have an all-expense-paid internship on the set of Superman Returns, Superman Returns (2006), directed by Bryan Singer. After the inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Lau
Andy Lau Tak-wah (; born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer. He has been one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful film actors since the mid-1980s, performing in more than 160 films while maintaining a successful singing career at the same time. In the 1990s, Lau was branded by the media as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Cantopop and was named as "Fourth Tiger" among the Five Tiger Generals of TVB during the 1980s. In the Philippines, he was previously given the screen name Ricky Chan. By April 2000, Lau won an unprecedented total of 292 awards. He also holds numerous film acting awards, having won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor three times and the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor twice. In 2005, Lau received the "No.1 Box office Actor 1985–2005" award of Hong Kong, yielding a box office total of HK$1,733,275,816 for shooting 108 films in the past 20 years, and in 2007, he received the "Nielsen Box Office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Women Want (2011 Film)
''What Women Want'' is a 2011 Chinese-Hong Kong romantic action comedy film remake of the 2000 American film of the same name. The film stars Andy Lau and Gong Li. ''What Women Want'' was released in China on 3 February 2011, the first day of Chinese New Year. The plot is a very close remake of the American version with some minor changes. The plot takes place mostly in an advertising company in Beijing, in which Lau plays a slick ad agency creative director who gets acquainted with his new talented competition, played by Gong. He is helped when he gets the ability to hear women's thoughts due to a freak accident. Cast * Andy Lau as Sun Zigang * Gong Li as Li Yilong * Yuan Li as Yanni * Banny Chen as Xiao Fei * Hu Jing as Zhao Hung * Zhu Zhu as Xiao Wu * Li Chengru as CEO Dong * Anya Wu as Dong's wife * Osric Chau as Chen Erdong * Wang Deshun as Sun Meisheng * Chen Daming as Young Sun Meisheng * Mavis Pan as Pan's secretary * Russell Wong as Peter * Kelly Hu as Girl in Lotto Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modesto, California
Modesto () is the county seat and largest city of Stanislaus County, California, United States. With a population of 218,464 at the 2020 census, it is the 19th largest city in the state of California and forms part of the Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto Combined Statistical Area. Modesto is located in the Central Valley, south of Sacramento and north of Fresno. Distances from other places include: north of Merced, California, east of San Francisco, west of Yosemite National Park, and south of Stockton. The city is surrounded by rich farmland. Stanislaus County ranks sixth among California counties in farm production. It is home to Gallo Family Winery, the largest family-owned winery in the United States. Led by milk, almonds, chickens, walnuts, and corn silage, the county grossed nearly $3.1 billion in agricultural production in 2011. The farm-to-table movement plays a central role in Modesto living as in the Central Valley. Modesto has been honored as a Tree Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reno
Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about north from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World". Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the county seat and largest city of Washoe County, Nevada, Washoe County and sits in the High Eastern Sierra foothills, in the Truckee River valley, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. The Reno metro area (along with the neighboring city Sparks, Nevada, Sparks) occupies a valley colloquially known as the Truckee Meadows which because of large-scale investments from Greater Seattle and San Francisco Bay Area companies such as Amazon (company), Amazon, Tesla, Inc., Tesla, Panasonic, Microsoft, Apple Inc., Apple, and Google has become a new list of technology centers, major technology center in the United States. The city is named after Civil War Union Major General Jesse L. Reno, who was killed in action during the American Civil War at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Vegas Valley
The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the Southern Nevada, southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States. The state's largest urban agglomeration, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Statistical Area is coextensive since 2003 with Clark County, Nevada, Clark County, Nevada. The Valley is largely defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a Depression (geology), basin area surrounded by mountains to the north, south, east and west of the metropolitan area. The Valley is home to the three largest incorporated cities in Nevada: Las Vegas, Henderson, Nevada, Henderson and North Las Vegas, Nevada, North Las Vegas. Eleven unincorporated towns governed by the Clark County government are part of the Las Vegas Township and constitute the largest community in the state of Nevada. The names Las Vegas and Vegas are interchangeably used to indicate the Valley, Las Vegas Strip, the Strip, and the city, and as a brand by the Las Vegas Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CCTV-10
CCTV-10 is the science and education focused channel of the China Central Television (CCTV) network in the People's Republic of China. Its schedule includes mostly local and imported documentaries, as well as educational studio productions. Programmes * Lecture Room 家讲坛* Great Masters 家* Reading 书, lit. Reading Books* The Doctor is In 康之路, lit. The Way to Health* People 物* Yingshi Mingtang 视名堂* Just So 来如此* Approaching Science 近科学 See also * CCTV channels Broadcast since 1 May 1958, China Central Television (CCTV) has 17 channels plus an additional five channels in different languages broadcast from China and across the globe. All CCTV channels are broadcast around the world through satellite broad ... References External links * China Central Television channels Television channels and stations established in 2001 2001 establishments in China {{China-tv-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 28 sports and 302 events, one event more than those scheduled for the 2004 Summer Olympics. This was the first time China had hosted the Olympic Games, and the third time the Summer Olympic Games had been held in East Asia, following the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, and the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. These were also the second Summer Olympic Games to be held in a communist state, the first being the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union (with venues in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Estonia). Beijing was awarded the 2008 Games over four competitors on 13 July 2001, having won a majority of votes from members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after two rounds o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Culture Express
''Culture Express'' is an English-language program broadcast on CCTV News, a Chinese state television State media or government media are media outlets that are under financial and/or editorial control of the state or government, directly or indirectly. There are different types of state and government media. State-controlled or state-run media a ... channel. The program provides coverage of entertainment events happening mostly in China, such as music and dance festivals, but also covers events worldwide and in the U.S., such as premieres of major American motion pictures. The program is hosted by Ji Xiaojun, Julian Waghann or Jennifer Hsiung. It broadcasts daily at 17:30 BJT and rebroadcasts daily at 23:30 BJT. External links Official site Chinese television shows China Central Television 2010s Chinese television series {{nonfiction-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travel Documentary
A travel documentary is a documentary film, television program, or online series that describes travel in general or tourist attractions without recommending particular package deals or tour operators. A travelogue film is an early type of travel documentary, serving as an exploratory ethnographic film. Ethnographic films have been made for the spectators to see the other half to relate with the world in relative relations. These films are a spectacle to see beyond the cultural differences as explained by the Allison Griffith in her journal. Before 1930s, it was difficult to see the importance of documentary films in Hollywood cinema but 1930s brought about a change in the history of these films with the popularity of independent filmmakers. The genre has been represented by television shows such as ''Across the Seven Seas'', which showcased travelogues produced by third parties, and by occasional itinerant presentations of travelogues in theaters and other venues. The British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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