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Tabloid victim reborn in an act of charity

[2007-01-04 06:36]

Faye Wong (pictured) is the reigning queen of pop music and her husband Li Yapeng is a television actor the public love to hate. Their every move makes the tabloid headlines. Li was forced into a hospital-staff lift to escape the paparazzi when he visited his wife after she gave birth to their daughter. But later, with his wife's consent, Li revealed the family secret that their newborn was born with a cleft palate.

The second wave of television contests

[2007-01-04 06:36]

After the Supergirls phenomenon of 2005, television was naturally inundated with similar reality-based programming. But still, the Shanghai Media Group (SMG) stood out for bringing some of the most entertaining contests to the small screen.

Online crowd gets out of control

[2007-01-04 06:36]

If Hu Ge was an unintentional revolutionary, Han Han (pictured) set out to sculpt the image of a rebel by tearing down the mansion of the establishment brick by brick.

Sex, lies and videotape

[2007-01-04 06:36]

The sordid laundry of the entertainment industry was hung out to dry in clear view when a young actress started posting video clips online that she claimed were recordings of her "transactions" with directors and casting directors. The twist, and also the rationale, for Zhang Yu's publicity was her "patrons" did not keep the implied promise and did not give her film or television roles after having sex with her.

Crazy film rocks the industry

[2007-01-04 06:36]

When Crazy Stone, a 3-million yuan ($384,000) heist movie, earned more than 20 million yuan ($2.56 million) at the box office, it infused a breath of fresh air into China's epic-dominated film industry. Many argued that you do not have to spend 100 million yuan ($12.80 million) to entertain moviegoers.