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Vanessa Yeung (, born on 23 January 1972 in Shanghai) is a model from Hong Kong, a
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, radio and television show host. She is somewhat proficient in several languages, including French, Korean, Cantonese, English and Mandarin. She often uses multiple languages to preside over ceremonies.


Early life

In January 1972, Yeung was born in Shanghai, China.


Education

Yeung graduated from the Department of Business Administration of Hong Kong
Lingnan University Lingnan University (LN/LU), formerly called Lingnan College, is a public liberal arts university in Hong Kong. It aims to provide students with an education in the liberal arts tradition and has joined the Global Liberal Arts Alliance since ...
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Career

A friend introduced Yeung filming of the advertising when she was in high school. Yeung's career started in 1995 when she won the "1st Elite Model Look" title. Later, she was invited by the top designer Vivieene Tam to New York Fashion Show, signed by the second big management company “Ford”, and moved to New York. She attended Paris, London and Milan Fashion Week regularly, and has performed in Hermes, Chanel, Sophia Kokosaiaki etc. Subsequently, she has returned to Hong Kong, has been participating in fashion shows organized by the HKTDC Hong Kong Fashion Week and many brands of fashion show and work as a master of ceremonies, to expand her career opportunities in the modelling industry. In addition to the modeling job, Vanessa also participated hosted and film performances, she has starred in several movies and TV programs. In 2003, she participated for the Asian TV News program "Family Wisdom", this is the first performance in television show. In addition, she participated in the television show "Beautiful Cooking" in 2006 and won the second awards in the "heaven and hell battle". She hosted difference kinds of life, food and information programs in TVB such as “Better Living” in 2006 & 2008, “Market Trotter" in 2007 and the "Land of Fengshui" in 2010 and so on. In October 2013, she presided over the "Star Biz Endeavours" for now TV and interviewed the celebrity of their business experience.


Columnist

Yeung likes writing and food, often published English prose and travel articles in major newspapers and magazines. Early in 1996, she began writing at "Wen Wei Po". Yeung's articles have appeared in Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and other international female magazine. Her articles also appeared in the trend magazine "ZIP", lifestyle magazine "Lisa taste," Economic Daily "etnet" , issued more than 500,000 copies of "Skypost" and travel magazine "U Magazine". In addition, she also launched two books.At 2002, Vanessa launched her first autobiographical "2555 days" about her experience as a model for seven years. In May 2012, Vanessa spent three years traveled more than a dozen cities such as Paris, London, New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles, Lyon, Amsterdam, tasted a hundred of Michelin cuisine, interviewed with dozens Michelin chef for published the first Michelin restaurant cookbook 《For Two in 32 minutes 把米芝蓮廚藝帶回家》. This cookbook won the second award in "Gourmand Awards 2013" which included the interview of 26 Michelin chefs, demonstrates and the 53-star recipes. In 2014, she made a new attempt on the sports column writing about World Cup in the newspaper “the-sun”. In 2015, she had a new column on sky post called "Friday Vanessa". In 2018, she had a new column on Apple daily called "Vanessa Discovery".


Radio show host

Vanessa hosted "Eve Marie” on RTHK Radio 2 broadcast and invited celebrity guests to share the views on love. Since August 27, 2012, she hosted the program "A circle" in the commercial radio. Apart from interviewing the artists, she also hosted the other sections of "Korea Circle", "Pink's Decade" and "Tasting Generation".


Korea

Vanessa has closely connected with South Korea. In April 2008, Vanessa cooperation with “Sunflower Travel” and “Korea Tourism Organization” to organize the tour to Busan and Seoul which use "Dress up fashion, spa and cuisine" as the theme, to share fashion trends, catwalk and cooking tips. In April 2012, she was invited to the Korea Tourism Food Festival by Korean Food Tourism Association, being an international honorary ambassador to promote Korean food culture. In October, she was invited to 2012 Busan International Film Festival to watch movies in VIP zone and learn to cook Korean cuisine in Korean culture museum. Later, she was invited to the South Korean TV station KBS to see popular songs show "MUSIC BANK", close distance to see Beast, Kara, BAP and other K pop stars. In October 2013, she attended the talent show “SIA Awards 2013”, and South Korea's top entertainment company YG Entertainment sponsored "WIN Who's next" final, close distance to see SNSD, G-Dragon, Crayon Pop, etc. ... Vanessa loves Korean culture. Besides studying Korean, she also had a Korea section in the program "A circle" which interviewed number of popular Korean stars, including the popular Korea super Junior M member Zhou Mi(조미), South Korea New girl group A Pink, Shinhwa(신화)member Jun Jin, the popular boy band Infinite, popular girl group Crayon Pop and the actress from "Take Care Of Us, Captain," "Boys Over Flowers," Gu Hye Soon (구혜선) and so on ...


Philanthropy

Vanessa has always been participating in charity work; she had been supporting Oxfam, Hong Chi Association and Fu Hong Society. She is the first model being the ambassador of Oxfam Hong Kong, even went to India and Africa to visit and experience living in poverty. In addition, she is fully support to poverty reduction activities, such as fair trade activities, support for farmers in developing countries, Chung Ying Theatre Company's "Kids at Room 2009" fundraising events, sharing Mainland flood relief situation and joined the event of International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. In addition, Vanessa is a senior diver with an "Open Water Diver license" and "Advanced Divers License". She has hosted for Radio Television Hong Kong for two series of "Diving Program" to lead the audience to observe the sea, presented the unspoiled marine ecosystems in front of audience, so that raise the awareness of protecting about the marine ecosystem in the public.


Filmography


Hong Kong Cable Television Limited (I-Cable)

*2014: 《 Culture Plus》 *2015: 《 Tasty Bureau


Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB)

*2006: 《
Better Living ''Better Living'' is a 1998 American film featured in the Hamptons International Film Festival. It stars Roy Scheider and Olympia Dukakis, and includes Edward Herrmann. Cast *Olympia Dukakis as Nora *Roy Scheider as Tom *Edward Herrmann as Jack ...
》(Season II) *2007: 《 The Vineyard》 *2007: 《Market Trotter》 *2008: 《
Better Living ''Better Living'' is a 1998 American film featured in the Hamptons International Film Festival. It stars Roy Scheider and Olympia Dukakis, and includes Edward Herrmann. Cast *Olympia Dukakis as Nora *Roy Scheider as Tom *Edward Herrmann as Jack ...
》(Season IV) *2009: 《 Home Brewed》 *2009: 《 Travel Specialist In Guangdong》 *2010: 《 Shanghai Delicacy Exposed》 *2010: 《 Land of Fengshui》 *2013: 《 Riva In Italy》 *2015: 《 In Vino Veritas 2》 *2016: 《 Nice Wheels》 *2016: 《 Midnight Muchies


Asia Television Limited (ATV)

*《
Family Wisdom Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Ideal ...


Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK)

*2001: 《Have fun with English》 *2001: 《Beauty design your destiny》 *2001: 《Yuen Long》 *2007: 《Diving Program》Season I *2009: 《Diving Program》Season II *2011: 《
ICAC Investigators 2011 ICAC may refer to: *Independent Commission Against Corruption (Hong Kong) *Independent Commission Against Corruption (Mauritius) *Independent Commission Against Corruption (New South Wales) *Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (Northern Ter ...
》 *2013: 《 HK Industries


Commercial Radio Hong Kong

*《A Circle》


now TV

*2013: 《 Star Biz Endeavours


Film

*1997: '' Yesterday You, Yesterday Me'' *1998: ''
Hot War Hot War is a 1998 Hong Kong thriller film directed by Jingle Ma, starring Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan and Kelly Chen. Plot A group of CIA scientists, C.S. Koo (Jordan Chan), Tango One (Ekin Cheng) and Blue Szeto (Kelly Chan) are working on a secr ...
'' *2010: ''
Fire of Conscience ''Fire of Conscience'' () is a 2010 Hong Kong-Chinese action film directed by Dante Lam and starring Leon Lai and Richie Jen. Cast *Leon Lai as Detective Manfred *Richie Jen as Inspector Kee *Wang Baoqiang as Xiao Yong *Vivian Hsu as Ellen *Liu Ka ...
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Commercials

*Pantene *
Fancl E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase FANCL is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''FANCL'' gene. Function The clinical phenotype of mutational defects in all Fanconi anemia (FA) complementation groups is similar. This phenotype is characteriz ...
MCO *Organic Day *Mitsumura *Hythiol C Premiere *MediaHK *Tulip Pork Luncheon Meat *Standard Chartered SME Banking


Other TV programs

*《
Game Legal A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (suc ...
》 *《 Game"15,16"》 *《
Recipes Why Not A recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to prepare or make something, especially a dish of prepared food. A sub-recipe or subrecipe is a recipe for an ingredient that will be called for in the instructions for the main recipe. Hist ...
》 *《
Beautiful Cooking ''Beautiful Cooking'' (Traditional Chinese: 美女廚房, literally: Beautiful Girl's Kitchen) is a Hong Kong variety show broadcast on TVB. The show began broadcasting on May 28, 2006 hosted by Ronald Cheng, Alex Fong and Edmond Leung. The seco ...
》 *《
Foodie 2 Shoes Foodie 2 Shoes (味分高下) is a Hong Kong television variety game show. It debuted in August 2007 until October 2007, broadcast from Tuesday to Friday. It consist of 34 episodes and a special ending episode. Foodie 2 Shoes is a joint collabo ...
》 *《
Starry Kitchen Starry may refer to: * ''Starry'' (The Killjoys album), 1994 *Starry (Purr Machine album) *Donn A. Starry (1925–2011), United States Army general *Starry Lee (born 1974), Hong Kong politician *Starry Internet, a fixed wireless ISP service See a ...
》 *《 Club Sparkle》 *《 Dining With The Stars》 *《
Outsmart ''OutSmart Magazine'', or simply ''OutSmart'', is a monthly publication serving Houston's LGBT community since 1994. Founded by Greg Jeu, the magazine's outreach has exceeded 200,000 and is distributed at over 350 locations in Houston and Galvest ...
》 *《 Once A Fishing Village》 *《 Neighborhood Treasures》 *《 Kitchen Diva Louisa》 *《 Admiral's Feast Series》 *《 What The Face》 *《 Master So Food》 *《 Top Easts 100》 *《 Go Fun》 *《 Delicious》 *《 Maria & Friends》 *《 Vinci's code


References


External links


Vanessa Yeung Official Website

Vanessa Yeung Official Column

WeiboProfile of fashion model Vanessa Yeung

Vanessa Yeung楊崢Fan Page

《For Two in 32 minutes 把米芝蓮廚藝帶回家》
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