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Popular local singer Frances Yip Lai-yee. Photo: SCMP

How beloved Cantopop classic The Bund took Hong Kong by storm

Featuring Frances Yip’s commanding voice, The Bund, theme tune to a TVB series of the same name, was also a hit among the Chinese diaspora.

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3 Hongkongers convicted for soaking policemen, journalists at Thai festival

Miss Hong Kong Ellyn Ngai aims to promote women’s rights, redefine beauty

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‘Michele Reis of CityU’: Ellyn Ngai, 23, crowned Miss Hong Kong 2024

Winner is former member of local dance group Morii Girls, which she joined in 2022 under name Stella Ngai.

Miss Hong Kong Ellyn Ngai is flanked by first runner-up Emily Leung (left) and second runner-up Amina Yeung. Photo: Dickson Lee

Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung and Stephen Chow were all in this 80s TV show

Many future stars appeared in TVB’s comedy series Angels and Devils, including Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Stephen Chow, but it was the former who stole the show with his screwball antics.

Chinese uber-influencer ‘Crazy Xiaoyangge’ expands to Hong Kong

Three Sheep rents a 5,570 sq ft office for around US$23,000 a month as agents note an uptick in inquiries from mainland-based companies.

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Hong Kong broadcaster TVB net losses drop 65% year on year to HK$143 million

Rebound in advertising revenue drives robust growth of broadcasting business in first half of year, with company’s operating costs also lowered.

TVB’s mascot at the broadcaster’s offices in Tseung Kwan O. Photo: Yik Yeung-man

Mocked online, TVB actor turned to painting. Now he has a solo show

Hong Kong actor and artist Karl Ting explores identity, love and societal pressure in his first solo show of paintings, “Who Are You?”, on display at an art gallery in the city’s Sheung Wan neighbourhood.

TV gold? When TVB battled ATV to screen the 1988 Seoul Olympics

TVB obtained a High Court injunction to stop ATV’s monopoly on screening the 1988 Olympics in Hong Kong – but a multimillion-dollar deal allowed both to broadcast the games

Trio’s Instagram clip hasn’t clouded view, Hong Kong reporter tells assault trial

Prosecution witness says three defendants hurt his eyes and ears by shooting jets of water at him with ‘relatively powerful’ toy guns.

TVB cameraman Tam Wing-man (left) and reporter Ng Ka-hin testified in court on Monday. Photo: Brian Wong

Hong Kong reporter soaked in Songkran assault case ‘wouldn’t have told police’

Three men accused of assaulting three auxiliary police constables and two journalists by attacking them with water guns at Thai new year festival in 2023.

A video screengrab shows TVB reporter Timothy Li (right) being splashed with water.in Kowloon City. Photo: Handout

How Frances Yip helped put Cantopop on the map, seen in a new exhibition

Yip is in Hong Kong to give 2 concerts and to attend the exhibition ‘Soundtrack of Our Lives: Joseph Koo x James Wong x the Rise of Cantopop’ held at Tai Kwun, where she was once an auxiliary policewoman

Blossoms novelist Jin Yucheng on his writerly art and debut Hong Kong show

Chinese author and artist Jin Yucheng, whose novel was made into the TV series Blossoms Shanghai by Wong Kar-wai, holds his first art exhibition in Hong Kong featuring evocative portrayals of China.

Hong Kong TVB host Koba dies at 29 after 6-month battle with rare cancer

Fans pay tribute to Clark Chan, known by stage name Koba, after death announced on his Instagram account.

Clark Chan was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma late last year. Photo: Instagram/koba_mcn

‘I will wait and marry her after’: ex-TVB star’s fiancée jailed for 25 months

Wang Qingxia convicted of five charges related to overstaying in Hong Kong and forging university certificates to obtain entry permit.

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Wang Qingxia (left) with fiancé Lee Lung-kei. Photo: Instagram/chris.art1017

Hong Kong’s TVB gets nod to sell stake to finance firm in push for drama funds

Communications Authority says it has approved an application by TVB to allot 8.7 million new shares to GF Global Capital.

Inside look at inspiration for Doraemon’s limitless world ahead of Hong Kong show

Jitsuko Katsumata, daughter of late Japanese manga master Fujiko F. Fujio, says father cherished ‘daily life’ inspiration in creating beloved characters.

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Profile | She was Hong Kong’s ‘happy fruit’: the life of ‘Fei Fei’, comedian Lydia Sum

With Lydia Sum ‘everything came from the heart’, said the TV producer who turbocharged the career of the comedian and actress. Known as Fei Fei, she is remembered for the joy she brought audiences.

Lydia Sum Tin-ha at an interview with the Post in 1994. When it came to the Hong Kong television and comedy icon, known as Fei Fei, everything came from the heart, said the TV producer who turbocharged her career. Photo: SCMP

Answers sought on approval of channel deal by Hong Kong’s TVB, satellite TV firm

TVB has leased a channel to a satellite television firm, allowing it to broadcast content without the need to go through the complicated process of applying for a free-to-air licence.

Cantopop singer Hubert Wu fined for bringing banned e-cigarettes into Hong Kong

Singer pleads guilty after 129 heated tobacco products and vaping devices discovered in luggage and coat.

Letters | Dub TVB’s wuxia classics into English for the world

Readers discuss the value of making English versions of television series based on novels by Jin Yong, the potential for collaboration between Western and Chinese medicine, and China’s tech advancement.

A picture of Barbara Yung, Lau Dan and Felix Wong, in character as Huang Rong, Hong Qigong and Guo Jing in TVB’s The Legend of the Condor Heroes, is shown at the Jin Yong Gallery at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in Sha Tin in 2018. Photo: Nora Tam

Editorial | Hong Kong strikes gold with TV deal for Olympics

By stepping in to buy broadcast rights, the government has ensured a Paris summer spectacular for sports fans.

Hong Kong’s Cheung Ka-long (left) competes against Italy’s Daniele Garozzo in the men’s individual foil gold medal bout at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Photo: AFP

Hong Kong’s TVB reduces losses by 5.5% to HK$763 million

‘We are cautiously optimistic that our Hong Kong TV broadcasting business segment will see continued growth and recovery in this year,’ chairman Thomas Hui says.

3 Hongkongers plead not guilty to shooting water guns at police at 2023 festival

Taxi driver, clerk and adult products retailer face five counts of assaulting three auxiliary constables and two TVB reporters at Songkran festival on April 8, 2023.

Can Alibaba’s HK$5 billion plan put Hong Kong films back on the global stage?

Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group’s plan to spend billions on local film and culture sectors has boosted investor confidence, experts says.

The entertainment and media arm of Alibaba will set aside at least HK$5 billion for the culture and film sectors over the next five years. Photo: Reuters

Profile | Ada Choi: from beauty queen to lauded actress and family woe to wedded bliss

Ada Choi’s acting career began after she was named second runner-up in the 1991 Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant. Her life has had its ups and downs, but is ‘so good’ since moving to China and marrying.

Hong Kong actress Ada Choi. Photo: Instagram/adachoi9800

Fans pay tribute to late Hong Kong drama actor Gregory Charles Rivers

Australian actor, who was famous for fluency in Cantonese and appeared in more than 200 Hong Kong TV dramas, found dead at home on Friday.

Charmaine Sheh’s journey from 90s pageant contestant to TVB queen

How the Hong Kong actress went from Miss Hong Kong second runner-up to Story of Yanxi Palace star and best actress award winner for The Queen of News

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Television Broadcasts (TVB)
Television Broadcasts is at present Hong Kong's sole free television broadcaster. Established in 1967, it is one of the largest commercial Chinese programme producers in the world.
Chairman / President
Mona Fong
CEO / Managing Director
Thomas Hui To
CFO / Finance Director
Cheong Shin Keong
Industry
Television broadcasting
Website
tvb.com
Headquarters address
77 Chun Choi Street Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate, New Territories, Hong Kong
Stock Code
SEHK:0511
OTC Pink:TVBCY
Year founded
1967
last updated:
30 September, 2024
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