2008 Asia Song Festival performers list announced

What: 2008 Asia Song Festival

Where: Seoul World Cup Stadium, South Korea

When: October 3-5, 2008

2008 is the year of the 5th annual Asia Song Festival, a music festival bringing together artists from all over Asia. Artists participating the 2008 Asia Song Festival are as follows, and their representing countries are noted.

Previous artists representing Japan: Hamasaki Ayumi (2004), Goto Maki and Aikawa Nanase (2005), Koda Kumi and Arashi (2006), Kuraki Mai (2007)

2008 Performing Artists:

South Korea: TVXQ, Girls' Generation, SHINee

Japan: w-inds., Berryz Kobo

China: Anson Hu

Taiwan: Fahrenheit, Yoga Lin

Hong Kong: Karen Mok

Thailand: ICE, PECK

Vietnam: Ho Quynh Huong

Philippines: RivermayaIndonesia: Agnes Monica

Singapore: Jocie Guo Mei Mei

Mongolia: BX

Malaysia: Rynn Lim

Eve Concert Performers: October 3, 2008 from 6-10pm

South Korea: SHINee

Japan: Berryz Kobo

Taiwan: Yoga Lin

Thailand: PECK

Singapore: Jocie Guo Mei Mei

Mongolia: BX

Malaysia: Rynn Lim

Main Concert Performers: October 4, 2008 from 6-10pm

South Korea: TVXQ, Girls' Generation, SHINee

Japan: w-inds., Berryz Kobo

China: Anson Hu

Taiwan: Fahrenheit

Hong Kong: Karen Mok

Thailand: ICE

Vietnam: Ho Quynh Huong

Philippines: Rivermaya

Indonesia: Agnes Monica

Hosts: Korea Foundation for International Culture Exchange, Seoul Metropolitan

CitySponsors: Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Korea Tourism Organization

More information regarding the festival can be found at its website ( http://asf.kofice.or.kr/) in Korean, Japanese, Chinese or English.

Jay Chou Loses $20,000 In Casino

6 April 2008
Jay Chou (周杰倫) held a concert at The Venetian Macao last night.Although, during the concert at the casino resort, Jay told his fans not to gamble, afterwards, in an interview, he admitted that he did gamble and had lost HK$20,000.Onstage he said: "My mum told me not to go to casinos because you'll lose a lot of money. I only came to this casino to see you all."He asked rhetorically: "Did you come to watch my show or to gamble?"His fans shouted back: "To watch your show!"Security at the concert was tight. Food and glow-sticks were prohibited, and members of the audience had their bags searched on entry.Some fans managed to smuggle glow-sticks in, and Jay, in an act of defiance, asked them to throw these onto the stage so he could use these as drumsticks.Jay's mother and grandmother attended. Stars in the audience included Eric Tsang (曾志偉), Andrew Lau (劉偉強), Jaime Chik (戚美珍) and members of Macao's powerful Ho family.

19th Golden Melody Awards Program: Jay Chou JieLun, Jolin Tsai YiLin, and Patty Hou PeiCen Appear-- In a Different Way-- on the Same Stage 金曲獎節目 周杰倫蔡依

The 19th Golden Melody Awards were held tonight at 台北小巨蛋 Taipei Arena; the entertainment for the evening was both brilliant and abundant. The opening routine of the hosts was hilarious: Tao JingYing (TaoZi) cleverly appeared as Machi's oldest brother, Jeff Huang LiCheng, while Dee Hsu (Xiao S) dressed as Jay Chou JieLun, sister Barbie Hsu (Da S) appeared as Jolin Tsai YiLin, and Patty Hou PeiCen rounded out the group as A-mei Chang HuiMei. The "scandal" singers (Double J) thus appeared on stage together in a "different" way, and, together with the witty, comedic dialogue, raised the excitement and "atmosphere" of the audience.The Golden Melody Awards ceremony typically garners a lot of attention and interest; this year, in addition to the comedic opening routine, the four hosts also imitated the Beatles, performing a purposely weird and exaggerated version of 歡樂年華 [Huan Le Nian Hua] [Age of Happiness].The first performer of the evening was pop diva A-mei Chang HuiMei. Heading a band and a group of dancers, she performed 永遠的快樂 [Yong Yuan De Kuai Le] [A Happiness For Forever], 壞女孩 [Huai Nu Hai] [Bad Girl], Kiss, and 薇多利亞的秘密 [Wei Duo Li Ya De Mi Mi] [Victoria's Secret]. Wearing a wig, which was fashioned into a punkish updo, A-mei heat up the venue quickly, even exchanging a "Kiss" with one of her band members and bringing her own unique star quality and charm to the Golden Melody stage."City Piano Man" Daniel Powter then captivated the audience by performing several songs, singing soulfully while playing the piano. Johnny's Entertainment's Gokusen Trio presented a true-to-origins Japanese idol performance. The members did not forget to say in Mandarin, "We are very happy to be in Taiwan!" and "We really like Taiwan!," thus bringing them closer to their Taiwanese fans.Yoga Lin YouJia and Aska Yang ZongWei, both singers of the "new" era, performed 天天想你 [Tian Tian Xiang Ni] [Think of You Every Day], 獨上西樓 [Du Shang Xi Lou] [Going Up to the Western Wing By Myself], 機場 [Ji Chang] [Airport], etc., to pay their respects and tribute to these deceased singers. Senior musicians also brought a few classics to the stage: Emil Chau HuaJian sang 明天我要嫁給你 [Ming Tian Wo Yao Jia Gei Ni] [Tomorrow, I Will Marry You], 羅大佑 Luo DaYou performed his own hit, 戀曲1980 [Lian Qu 1980] [1980 Love Song], and 李宗盛 Li ZongCheng sang 我是一隻小小鳥 [Wo Shi Yi Zhi Xiao Xiao Niao] [I Am a Little Bird].While on stage, award presenter and Hakka artist 劉劭希 Liu ShaoXi complained, "Why are there no Hakka programs in this year's Golden Melody Award ceremony?" AZIO TV, which organized this year's event, explained that, every year, two out of three of the minority languages in Taiwan (MinNan or Hokkien, Hakka, and Native Taiwanese - Aboriginal) are represented in the evening's programs. The languages are rotated from ceremony to ceremony: last year, Hokkien and Haka were used; this year, an aboriginal language and Hokkien were used; next year, Hakka and an aboriginal language would be used.

（中央社記者吳素柔台北五日電）金曲獎典禮今晚在台北小巨蛋登場，表演節目豐富精采，其中主持群開場秀「笑」果十足，陶晶瑩巧扮麻吉哥哥黃立成，小S扮周杰倫，大S化身蔡依林，侯佩岑則模仿阿妹，「緋聞歌手」以另類方式同台，加上搞笑對話，炒熱現場氣氛。
金曲獎表演節目一向受到矚目，今年主持群除搞笑開場秀，四人還模仿「披頭四」樂團，搞怪演唱「歡樂年華」。
第一個表演嘉賓是天后張惠妹，她率領樂團和舞群獻唱「永遠的快樂」、「壞女孩」、「KISS」和「薇多利亞的秘密」；阿妹除戴著假髮、一身龐克造型熱力開唱，還和樂手當場KISS了一下，展現獨特舞台魅力。
「城市琴人」丹尼爾 (Daniel Powter)則自彈自唱多首歌曲，眾人如痴如醉。來自日本的傑尼斯GOKUSEN三人組呈現原汁原味的日本偶像歌舞秀，成員還不忘用中文說「很高興來台灣」、「我真的很喜歡台灣」，拉近和歌迷的距離。
新生代歌手林宥嘉和楊宗緯演唱「天天想你」、「獨上西樓」、「機場」等歌曲，向已故歌手致敬。資深音樂人也帶來經典作品，周華健獻唱「明天我要嫁給你」，羅大佑演唱「戀曲1980」，李宗盛則唱「我是一隻小小鳥」。

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Wu Chun Wishes To Marry Ah Sa

Charlene and Wu Chun are the leads to the love+action+myth film . On 11th June, they were in Beijing's 5 star resturant to celebrate the completion of filming. Male and female leads have met for 4 months, establishing alot of chemistry, on stage and off stage they are like a duet, very similar to that of a couple of the early stages of a relationship. Wu Chun asked Ah Sa, "Are you willing to go to Brunei?". With Ah Sa answering, "To go and be queen?" With the observer feeling mushy by their flirting! Wu Chun Takes Responsiblity While filming a scene of a hero saving beauty, Ah Sa in the confusion wrongly used force on her arm, thus spraining herself.

F4 Additional Concert in JAPAN!

The F4 Japan Concert are adding 3 additional concerts dates in Yokohama starting October 3, 2008.Tickets for the Yokohama concert will be selling starting on August 30, 2008.
Stage Design
The Centerstage which　360° can look around　and the mobile crane that an elevated passageway leading to the stage extends to every direction is installed.
extracted from:http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/080625/gnj0806250503015-n1.htm

The Lollipop Mania Has Begun

They are cute. They are fun. They are multi-taskers. Meet Lollipop, the latest flavour of Taiwan. Comprising Owodog (26), Lil Jay (22), A-Wei (23), Fabien (23), Prince (19) and William (23), these singing, dancing, acting and hosting talents were first put together by CHANNEL [V] through its reality show of the same title. But the Lollipops are quick to dismiss that they are the next F4. "We are not like F4," the boys say in an interview in Singapore. "They are much taller and better looking than us. We don't set out to be teen idols. We just want to be ourselves."Tough luck, guys. You are already the new teen idols in this part of the world. Their soaring high popularity is further cemented with a hit teen drama, Black Sugar Macchiato.

Their soaring high popularity is further cemented with a hit teen drama, Black Sugar Macchiato. As witnessed during their showcase at Luna Bar in Singapore, hordes of screaming teenage girls (some of them have been denied entry 'coz there is no room to swing a cat) have pledged their devotion to Lollipop. No kidding. Some of their die-hard fans have flown in from Hong Kong just for the event. "We grew up with our fans on the show (Lollipop)," the band reason out. "They could see that we are sincere and friendly to them. We make our fans happy." On why Lollipop is such a huge girl magnet, the boys say, "Like a lollipop, we're nice to eat and play with." "We give a different feel to boybands. Coming from a reality show, we've learned hard and be able to do everything. We must say that we bring fun, happiness and humour to our female fans."

Vanness Wu in "Kung Fu Chef" & 3rd NEW Album + DVD+ MV

Monday, 2nd June 2008. Here is the latest photo of the film, Kung Fu Chef starring Vanness Wu. You can visit our JVKV site for more details. Thanks to wengvann for uploading. Credits to the source.

It's VanNess's 3rd album. "In Between（1CD＋2DVD） "there'll be 3 new songs and 12 his past best tunes.the sale date is July 4th, 2008.the reservation amenity is his new song's MV "Lucky me".CD:DVD1: making (about 60 mins)DVD2:Preorder taking for "In Between" (TW version)Van Ness will release his third album "In Between" (Taiwan version) on 4 July 2008.

Each preorder will get a DVD of "Lucky Me" MV as a bonus/special gift; please take Immediate action if you wish to order. Opening period from now till 10am, 30 June 2008

BIG BANG’s new album includes song made by T.O.P.

BIG BANG’s new Korean album, which will be released in August, includes a song written and composed by T.O.P.According to a YG Entertainment official, despite BIG BANG’s busy overseas and local performances, T.O.P. has still managed to work on writing lyrics and composing.“We heard the song T.O.P. did and it’s a really great and we’re all impressed. This new album is going to be something that has more of BIG BANG’s own style as not only G-dragon’s song will be included in it but also T.O.P.’s,” Seungri revealed.

Shinhwa, Jun Jin Got Plastic Surgery?!

Currently promoting his solo album ‘New Decade’, Jun Jin addressed plastic surgery rumors on the June 7 episode of MBC’s Infinity Challenge — and admitted to a cosmetic procedure whereby fat was removed from his eyelids (to make them look larger and more open).

棒棒堂第一次造訪新加坡，歡迎大家來！Lollipop Coming to Singapore

新加坡的歌迷粉絲們請注意囉，超受歡迎的棒棒堂將造訪新加坡為大家舉辦簽唱會囉，這是棒棒堂第一次來到新加坡，希望所有的粉絲們都熱情踴躍參加！
Singapore's Fans Please pay attention, the hottest stars "Lollipop" is coming to Singapore for signing autograph, this is Lollipop first time in Singapore, hope all of the Fans will Welcome them with Warm Heart!
‧日期/ Date：12 June, 2008
‧時間/ Time：15:00
‧地點/ Location：Lunar‧活動免費但需索票入場。Blk 3C, The Cannery, River Valley Road, #01-03, Clarke Quay (Admission Free)
索票訊息請注意Y.E.S. 93.3FM電台、或i-weekly雜誌、或是上http://www.lunar.sg/查詢。Please pay aattention Y.E.S. 93.3FM, or i-weekly magazine, or go to http://www.lunar.sg/ to check out.
演藝界512關愛行動 - 黑澀會美眉&棒棒堂 PLAY IT! DONATION 2 CHINA, SICHUAN
活動現場，棒棒堂們將會為大家簽名在：
1. 棒棒堂夢想出發　閃耀小巨蛋演唱會DVD專輯。
2. STAR印製的簽名卡。
Lollipop Signing Autograph please bring: 1. Lollipop Dream Start off Gorgeously Xiao Ju Dan Concert DVD. 2. STAR printed Name Card.
Details Lollipop's members: http://lollipop.woo.com.tw/lollipop/index.htm?action=meimei [V]Family-棒棒堂唱世界中唯一僅有的花DVD版

This is my Own Translation, if anything wrong, I did my best.

Golden Melody Awards survey, Jay Chou receives over half of netizens' support

The 19th Golden Melody Awards nominations have already been revealed, Jay Chou was nominated for 8 with 2 of his works, he got entered into Best Album with both performance and accompaniment albums, he's become the focal point of the Golden Melody Awards for the past few years, the only pity is that Jay Chou has missed out on Best Male Singer.Before when the nominations were announced Jay Chou accepted an interview with the media, he said: "I'm very happy getting nominated for 8, I haven't let the fans down, the judges have good taste!", you can tell he is confident from his words. According to the results of Sina's survey, Jay Chou's confidence is not without evidence. In the Best Album fight, Jay Chou leads with "On The Run" by nearly half of the total votes, and his big favourite song "Chinese Flower Pot" is in first place for the Best Song of the Year with 55.78% of votes. Jay Chou's old partner Vincent Fang has also received a lot of support, this is also the 8th time in a row he has been nominated for Best Lyricist, the lyrics to the song "Chinese Flower Pot" written by him has 83.99% of votes, leaving the rest far behind.

周杰倫 [Jay Chou] - 青花瓷 [Blue & White Porcelain] (EngPin Sub)
In second and third place in the survey for Best Album from Sina was Steph Sun's "Against The Light" and Amei Chang's "STAR", Sodagreen have also got plenty of support with their album "Incomparable Beauty" at fourth place. In the voting for the other awards, Eason Chan has a lead of a few thousand over the second place and is placed steadily in first place for Best Male Mandarin Singer, and the Best Female Mandarin Singer is currently Steph Sun with 42.28% of votes.Also in the polls being held by the official Golden Melody Awards website, Steph Sun is also sitting steadily at the top of Best Female Mandarin Singer with 895193 votes, on the male singer side, the black horse newcomer Khalil Fong has run out ahead with 416781 votes. According to reports, the 19th Golden Melody Awards traditional music winners will be announced on the 21th of June at the awards ceremony being held in Taipei; the pop music awards winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony being held at the Taipei Arena on the 5th of July.

Wonder Girls Praise Rain

On a recent episode of KBS 2TV Entertainment Relay (연예가중계), the Wonder Girls had nothing but praise for their senior Rain.The Wonder Girls stated, "There's a reason why Rain is such a huge world star, it's due to his hard work and passion. We have learned a lot from Rain, and he has motivated us to dream big."Sun Ye, Ye Eun and Yoobin all want to take a stab at musicals, while Sohee wants to pursue a career in acting.

CNN Talks about KPOP’s Fans Madness! DBSK &Super Junior

In the segment of the CNN ‘World Report’ Entertainment .. the program brought attention to (KPOP) fans and their behaviors … you can catch them showing parts of DBSK concert and talking about Super Junior! WATCH HERE

Dong Bang Shin Gi on CNN News

Rain YOU SCREW UP! 10 Questions Can't Answer all?!

The interview is finally out ..and you can watch it HERE
I I wish he had a better image for this whole US movie debut~!!with this hair and make up whoever see him for the first time will have hella hard time believing that this dude one day used to look actually good! Say .. his 4th album comeback?As for his English … despite the interviewer was such an ass! his English was a far cry from those Speed Racer premiere interviews in LA! If you have watched them .. you’d know what i mean ^^!
Full Credit When Posted ElsewhereSource: 13!inconnu, Cjlatina

PT: I am so disappointed at him. Since he stay in U.S so much longer then Se7en yet his English is still so in need of tuition. Se7en is so much better than him. At least, he would ask "Do you understand my English?" Kind of cute.
Rain~ I Love U Please take careof yourself (Appear) Don't make the World Fans cry~ Thank you (sop...cry...)

SM Entertainment is a bunch of Girly Boy Band "SHINee"?!

New comtemporary band, SHINee. They are look like GAYS then a real boy. If you look at these pictures, how could you not think of them as "Girly figure". If I were a girl, I will not have my Boyfriend in this way AT ALL. I thought Korean man suppose to be Manly and not Sissy.
I think SM Entertainment's Head got hurt really badly after hit and run by the ELF. Their brain is like "I DON'T CARE ANY MORE!". Just want to do whatever the market needed it.($u$) Oh~ yeah~
Well, they don't care about the society thinks anymore. If the world is in this mess, then might as well tell them to eat Shit. Sorry about the language, its just that I am so pissed now.

Super Juniors is having a Concert at Bangkok

Oh My God!
Oh My God!
Oh My God~
Super Juniors is having a Concert at Bangkok on 12th July 2008.
NOW is the time for SUJU FANS to Rock the Concert! YEAH!
Don't forget to bring all Banners with you. Let just say that "I WANT SUJU TO SEE ME!" That's what I would DO~ See It works on me mm~ Ha!
Hey~ I admit I am Nut when its come to SUJU who wouldn't [cute,sweet, handsome,OMG~ Somebody Stop Me!]

Here are the Information:

CONCERT DATE : 12 July 2008

PLACE : Impact Arena, Muangthong Thani, Nonthaburi

TIME : around 8 pm, door open 6 pm(compare with TVXQ! Concert)

TICKET : Bath 6000 (only 100 seats) , 4500 (sit and stand), 2500, 1500, 800

Seat Chart : No Seat Chart Announce yet, but the agency said that would be same as much as Korea Concert (but this place really big see hall chart below)

Selling : Start on 25 May from 10 am by True Shop, True Move Shop, True Life and http://www.weloveshopping.com/sj(the web'll active on 10 am, 25 May)

6 tickets per 1 time : The website need ID No. for register.

Other Benifit : MEET&GREET : for person who buy ticket from 25 through 27, 5 pm, there will be pick up by Seat no. at press conference. 30 grantees

2 tickets of Attack on The Pin-up boys : for person who buy 6000 bath, about the movie showing will annouce later

update! TRUE MUSIC SIMS : Call to 2222 by True Music Sims on 23 May from 8 am, the service will tell the discount(10%) code for buying ticket. Only for the first 100 lines. 1 user can buy 2 ticket.update!

MY OWN SEEKING INFORMATION : How many ticket each price (Source TRUE info service 6000 Bath : SIT 100 seats 4500 Bath : STAND 4328 seats, SIT 1798 seats 2500 Bath : SIT 1200 seats 1500 Bath : SIT 2045 seats 800 Bath : SIT 1593 seats