Later, he bought the rights to Hong Kong Kung-Fu movies and sold them in Indonesia and markets farther in the South Pacific.
Some American programs still have large audiences, but the trend is the other way -- even if it is only toward Hong Kong and Taiwan kung fu dramas dubbed into Bahasa Indonesia.
Standing alongside was independent Hong Kong legislator Christine Loh Kung Wai, who had just announced the formation of her new Citizens Party.
In November the same court decreed death by injection for four convicted heroin smugglers, according to Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao, a Beijing-backed daily.
Many newspapers and news portals including Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao carry a People's Daily editorial condemning international agencies for their gloomy forecasts on the Chinese economy.
Former Premier Li Peng's son has been appointed Shanxi governor despite coming under fire for his handling of disaster cover-ups as acting governor, Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao reports.
One photo posted by Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao shows people holding handwritten signs declaring, "We want peace, not nuclear tests" and "We love peace, not fatso Kim", in reference to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Born in San Francisco to globe-trotting parents, he became a child actor in Hong Kong, where he learned kung fu and became a dance champion.
WSJ: Hollywood's New Kick: Why Everybody Is Kung Fu Fighting
The restaurant also offers speedboat service back to the town of Sai Kung for 120 Hong Kong dollars.
His film roles, from acting in King Kong to doing voice work on Kung Fu Panda, can fetch far more.
Nowadays, we don't need the films to do that, and as a result, the youth in Hong Kong don't really understand kung fu or what its purpose is.
Prof Yang Yuguan and two students at the China University of Political Science and Law make a bold call in Hong Kong Beijing-backed newspaper Ta Kung Pao for China to retaliate against Pyongyang and immediately repeal a mutual assistance treaty signed in 1961.
In Hong Kong, Beijing-backed newspaper Ta Kung Pao accuses the US government of backing the Philippines in territorial disputes.
Residents say that Sai Kung encapsulates a side of Hong Kong that outsiders rarely see: its abundant swaths of greenery.
The Iron Lady finally "succumbed" to Mr Deng, "an opponent who was harder than steel", Ta Kung Pao, a Beijing-backed Hong Kong newspaper, adds.
Once upon a time, it was Hong Kong that cranked out most of the world's kung fu and swordplay movies, notably from the prolific Shaw Brothers studio.
WSJ: Hollywood's New Kick: Why Everybody Is Kung Fu Fighting
In talks with Mr Choe, Wang Jiarui is likely to have conveyed a warning to North Korea not to be a "trouble-maker", Mr Zhan tells Ta Kung Pao, a Beijing-backed Hong Kong newspaper.
There is little mainland press comment on North Korea, but a commentary by Ta Kung Pao, a Beijing-backed Hong Kong newspaper, says the US "cannot fathom" the motives and bottom line of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Ta Kung Pao, a Beijing-backed Hong Kong newspaper, foresees a "military conflict ready to break out at any moment" from more missile and nuclear tests by North Korea, and also puts the blame on the US, Japan and South Korea.
Other kung fu talent streamed to America in the wake of Hong Kong's 1997 turnover from the British to China.
WSJ: Hollywood's New Kick: Why Everybody Is Kung Fu Fighting
It's Hong Kong film star and Hollywood hopeful Chow Yun Fat striking what appears to be a kung fu pose, a matchstick clenched between his teeth, presumably for extra threat value.
应用推荐