And the 2008 Metro Showbiz Hit Awards Goes to

Almost every star attending the 2008 Metro Showbiz Hit Awards was entitled to a prize on Wednesday night, Web portal sina.com.cn reports.Unlike past ceremonies, in which one person dominated the awards, this year's event awarded prizes to singers old and new. Eason Chan, a veteran Hong Kong singer and actor, won five titles, including the Most Hit Singles. The Most Popular Singer went to familiar faces Joey Yung, Anson Hu and Richie Ren.

Hong Kong Artists 2008 Beijing Olympics Jackie Chan,Eason Chan and Miriam Yeung

The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) has launched its "Hong Kong Saddles Up For Olympics" promotion in Asia, officially rolling out its pan-regional publicity campaign for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Three renowned regional cable channels, namely the AXN, National Geographic Channel and ESPN STAR Sports have joined hands with the HKTB to produce special promotional videos featuring nine celebrities and international sports personalities. The videos, together with a TVC starring HKTB’s tourism ambassador Mr Jackie Chan, is now being aired on the three regional cable channels to reinforce publicity for Hong Kong as an Olympic co-host city, and to highlight Hong Kong’s distinctive living culture and diverse tourism appeal.
At the launch ceremony, HKTB Chairman The Hon James Tien was joined by a host of celebrities appearing in the videos, including Canto-pop singers Eason Chan and Miriam Yeung, Olympics windsurfing gold medallist Lee Lai-shan, Asia and Hong Kong’s leading triathlete Lee Chi-wo, and Hong Kong golf open tournament contender James Stewart. Over a hundred guests joined the event and witnessed how the stars promote Hong Kong’s charm to overseas audience both on stage and in the promotional TVC and vignettes.
"The HKTB started its Olympic promotions in the long-haul markets late last year. Given that summer is traditionally the peak travel season for the short-haul markets, the HKTB will capitalise on Hong Kong’s edge as an Olympic co-host city and step up promotions in the Asian markets," Mr Tien said. "By leveraging the influence of the celebrities and international sports personalities, we hope to widely publicise Hong Kong’s strengths as an Olympic co-host city, so as to elevate Hong Kong’s destination image."
Apart from the celebrities present at the premiere, celebrities Karen Mok and Donnie Yen, former English team captain of Hong Kong Sevens Phil Greening and Hong Kong’s top international jockey Douglas Whyte also participated in the filming of the videos. All featured celebrities shared their joy of Hong Kong being a co-host city of the Beijing Olympics, followed by their vivid introduction of Hong Kong’s local cuisine, shopping and tourist attractions. Some of them even demonstrated their favourite sports.
AXN, ESPN STAR Sports and National Geographic Channel will feature promotional vignettes starring those nine celebrities and the TVC starring Jackie Chan for a month.

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.