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You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Liu Yan in Beijing.
Acclaimed director Tsui Hark's 3D action epic "The Taking of Tiger Mountain" is a movie favorite at this year's Golden Rooster Awards with nine nominations.
The story is based on a conflict between the People's Liberation Army of China and a bandit gang in the 1940s. The movie has been included on the short list for best director, best screenplay and best actor.
Starring Tony Leung Ka Fai, the movie was released in China last December. It has reaped box office earnings of around 900 million yuan, roughly 140 million U.S. Dollars.
The Golden Rooster Awards have been held every two years since 1981. This year the awards ceremony will be held in northeast China's Jilin City in September.
A record number of 270 films will be on display in the event.
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The male giant panda Kaikai, who turned seven on August 24, was given a birthday party in Macao a day earlier on Sunday with a birthday cake and hundreds of birthday cards.
This has been the first time that Kaikai celebrated its birthday in Macao since it was sent there earlier this year from the mainland with a female panda. Kaikai had an ideal treat for its birthday, a cake made out of frozen fruits and bamboo juice.
The vet Mo Yongxian said the cake is tasty and nutritional, and took him five days to make.
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Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi has requested her wax statue removed from an unknown wax museum because it's too ugly.
Zhang is not alone. Wax statues of other popular stars from China and South Korea are far from being recognizable.
Located in southwest China's Sichuan Province, the wax museum became well-known overnight because of its horrendous sculpting works that made it a real laugh.
Web users commented that some of the star wax figures are too horrible to look at, as super stars Maggie Cheung and Gong Li's figures are dressed in an awkward style, while Stephen Chow has a crazy hairstyle. Not to mention Zhang Ziyi's wax statue, whose hairline was made in a way that she looks like a man in China's Qing Dynasty more than 100 years ago.
Many statues, including kung fu star Jackie Chan's, do not resemble their human counterparts at all, and are touted by web users as their "ugly twins".
Some celebrities have since demanded for the removal of the wax figures, including Zhang, who claimed that the museum hadn't asked for permission before displaying the wax figures.
