Artistes Are Upset At Hostage Crisis in Philippine

At the end of the11-hour hostage standoff in Philippine yesterday, 8 deaths of Hong Kongers are confirmed. Artistes all expressed their condolence and mourned the dead. Mourning ceremony is arranged in many public events today and attended artistes all wear plain and black clothing to express their condolence.

Due to the affect of the yesterday's hostage crisis, Richie Ren canceled his plan to hold his first concert in Philippine in November. He expressed his company believes it's not suitable for him to go at this moment. Concerning the safety of their idol, many of Richie's fans also advised Richie shouldn't go to Philippine.

Besides paying their respect to the dead, many artistes are angered at the actions taken by the Filipino police and government. They criticized the police didn't properly handled this dangerous situation and took too long to rescue the hostages. Many of them expressed they would not go to Philippine at least for now:

Steven Ma: I hate that one person's fault led to the death of others!...don't understand how to handle the cris? Then don't mess with it! How come you have to take others' innocent lives to prove your incompetence?

Ella Koon: Really mad and upset. Although I'm not a police, but I saw many opportunities for them to take down the gunman. But they chose to break in using force...Now I don't know whether I would go to Philippine again, because that place is really disturbing.

Raymond Wong: The country, the government, and the police don't even have the basic knowledge of how to protect citizens.

Cally Kwong:  Level of the rescue strategy is very low, people aren't smart enough...He was standing at the door when he released the hostage. Police could've shoot him. I really don't understand. You see plots like this in movies all the time.

Roger Kwok and Cindy Ou: Watched interview with the Filipino president...he was smiling frivolously! 


Michael Tse: After this incident, I've lost confidence at their police and security.

Source: Integrated sources / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Huang's spokesman explained Huang's sudden change: "We already told the organization earlier that we might not be able to come, so we specially recorded VCR for the event." She expressed because the filming of Huang's new movie "Orphans of Zhao" exceeds originally finishing date, Huang hasn't film the commercials he is supposed to film. But asked whether Huang is already in Japan, she expressed: "Should be, but I don't even know where he is now."

Source: UDN / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Actors from "Can't Buy Me Love" Charmaine Sheh and Linda Chung have different reactions to high ratings. Charmaine said: "It's contradicting. Don't plan to celebrate. I haven't calm down my mood. Watching the news yesterday, my tears couldn't help but fell." Linda said: "News is news, series is series, how can there be embarrassments? Although I care about people's lives, too, but would still support the series. (It's not suitable to put on a comedy?) Don't know how to answer. I believe company didn't arrange on purpose."

TVB live broadcast the hostage-taking event in Philippines yesterday and received 31 ratings. But some people still complained that it's disturbing to keep reporting "all hostages are dead" during family hour. In addition, someone said foul languages in the news reporting yesterday and external affairs assistant director Tseng Shing Ming said it wasn't TVB reporters who said those things; he believes viewers would understand.

Source: Oriental Daily / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Source: Mingpao / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Source: Oriental Daily / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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Source: UDN / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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<<萬鳳之王>> / "The King of 10 Thousand Phoenixes" (direct translation)

Starring: Myolie Wu, Jessica Hsuan, Sunny Chan, Nancy Wu

<<居家兵團>> / "Household Army" (direct translation)

Starring: Ha Yu, Liza Wang, Kevin Cheng, Bernice Liu

<<女拳>> / "Female Fist" (direct translation)

Starring: John Chiang, Liu Xuan, Fala Chen, Kenneth Ma

<<花花世界花家姐>> / "Colorful World of Sister Fa" (direct translation)

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Source: TVB Weekly / Translation: KAY @ Kay's Entertainment

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