Regina Ip will appear in Vincci Cheuk’s new movie “Temporary Family,” plus Mainland students are given given an anti-Occupy Central petition
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Regina Ip Makes a Cameo
Politician and former security chief Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee will make a cameo appearance as a district councilor in director Vincci Cheuk’s new movie “Temporary Family,” acting alongside Sammi Cheng and the city’s hottest male lead Nick Cheung. It turns out acting runs in Ip’s family: her mother Wa Choi-fung starred in three movies, including the first post-war film, 1947’s “My Love Comes Too Late.” The politician’s former schoolmate Winnie Yu Ching, deputy chairman of Commercial Radio Hong Kong, invited Ip to play the part. Ip told Apple Daily that she wanted to play the head of security next time.
Our take: Of course she’s a natural actress—she’s a politician!
Liaison Office Distributes Anti-OC Form
Mainland students applying at the Liaison Office for the right to study in Hong Kong have complained to Ming Pao that they were given an anti-Occupy Central petition, created by the Alliance for Peace and Democracy, to sign as part of the process. A student told Ming Pao that they were “disgusted but couldn’t say no,” although other students said it was optional. A reporter from the newspaper saw Liason Office staff handing the form to students at the office’s Sheung Wan branch, but the group denied doing so. Robert Chow Yung, the spokesperson for the Alliance, declined to confirm whether the Liaison Office was involved in the campaign.
Our take: Signatures at metaphorical gunpoint? Just when you thought it couldn’t get tackier…