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OCTOBER 15, 1999 VOL. 25 NO. 41
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The Art of Raising Hard Cash
Prince Jefri's distress sale of the century
Kit Chan Kit-yee's bad press in Taipei
Sexy in a Wholesome Kind of Way
 Munshi Ahmed For Asiaweek |
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Last year, Singapore pop star Kit Chan Kit-yee was the darling of the Taipei press. Her stage portrayal of the late Taiwanese singing sensation Teresa Teng Li-jun in the musical Legend was hailed as hauntingly beautiful - almost as good as the real thing. What a difference an earthquake can make. Now the Taipei papers are calling Chan, 26, nothing more than a "fair-weather friend." The reason? She hot-footed it out of Taiwan as soon as she could in the wake of the temblor that hit the island Sept. 21. Chan, who had been in Taiwan to promote her new album, "Dazzling," was back in Singapore as fast as you can say Richter Scale. Frightened? You bet. She says: "After the earthquake, I felt like I had escaped a calamity. My first instinct was to rush home." The singer later returned to Taipei to help with fundraising for victims of the quake. And, no, it wasn't just to repair relations with the media. "I wanted to help because the Taiwanese people have been so good to me."
Sexy in a Wholesome Kind of Way
Perhaps she should have been flattered, but when South Indian actress and dancer Vichitra was told there had been complaints that she was too sexy to appear at a charity concert in Penang, Malaysia, saying thank you was the last thing on her mind. Yes, she said, she may have had a few sexy roles in her career, but the Consumer Association of Penang was "narrow-minded" for claiming she would "pave the way for the moral decadence of the Indian community." So she went ahead and performed anyway.
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