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Daily SG: 25 Aug 2008

Posted by singaporedaily on 25th August 2008

Singaporeans, A Dying Breed
- Singapore Life and Times: Finding the Equilibrium
- The Rot Within: Twisting Words
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Baby Package 2008

National Day Rally 2008 - Making Babies
- Right up your alley: Dear stupid Singaporeans, NOBODY is telling you to wash the dishes lah!
- My Sketchbook: Easing of political films

A Sliver from Beijing
- TOC: Ms Lee Bee Wah: A new broom sweeps indiscriminately
- nofearSingapore: Table Tennis: STTA president’s puzzling action
- TOC: I am not celebrating
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: How many people in Jamaica?
- SPUG: Win Liao… Tio Sack…

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Simply Inconceivable: The Foreign Talent Irony
- Just stuff: The Foreignness of Foreigners in our Midst – A Study in the FT hubris

Lee vs FEER
- Singabloodypore: Singapore PM raises stakes in FEER defamation case

Burma Protests
- Yawning Bread: Singapore shows Burmese dissidents the door
- Sgpolitics: Burmese citizens hold press conference on being denied visa renewals in Singapore
- Singapore Indian Voice: Burmese activists hold press conference on being denied visa renewals in Singapore

ERPains, Trains and Automobiles
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Singapore’s Public Transport

Healthcare
- The Alternative ‘HPB’: Why is ST so anti-biomedical treatment for autism?

Daily Discourse
- Desparatebeep: Irony and Sarcasm

Infoblogoramus
- No “partisan stuff” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Top 100 Political Videos (that are likely to be banned in Singapore)
- Notes from Serangoon Road: A ’secret’ screening

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Daily ChioBu: Xu Jing Lei

Posted by singaporedaily on 25th August 2008

Xu Jing Lei 徐静蕾 (nickname 老徐 ol’ Xu) is a rising star in Chinese cinema. A graduate from the Beijing Film Academy Performance Institute 北京电影学院表演系, she has starred and won numerous acting awards in China. The multi-talented star from Beijing not only acts, but models, sings, writes and directs as well. In 2003, she won the Best New Actress and Best Actress awards at the 4th Annual Chinese Film Awards in the film My Father and I 我和爸爸 which she wrote, directed and acted. She has since written, directed and starred in 2 more films, bagging the Best Director at the 52nd Donostia-San Sebastian International Fim Festival for the 2004 A Letter From An Unknown Woman 《一个陌生女人的来信》. In 2006, Xu Xing Lei topped Technorati’s chart when her blog clocked 50 million clicks. In 2007, she started her own online magazine Kai La 《开啦》. Her latest movie saw her starring opposite Jet Li in Warlords 《投名状》. [Phew, what a woman!]

Pictures after the break.

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