ASIA / PACIFIC
October 2, 2017
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Hong Kong singer and actress Josie Ho is making new music
HONG KONG (AP) — To say that Josie
Ho has been busy is an understatement.
The Hong Kong singer and actress is
putting out new music, touring Asia, and
has shot a new travel show on TLC.
Together with her indie rock band, Josie
and the Uni Boys, Ho is releasing seven
new singles on vinyl records, one song at a
time. She said her new music is inspired by
the psycho thriller film Split starring
James McAvoy, about three young girls
kidnapped by a man who suffers from a
multiple personality disorder. Fittingly,
the first single is named “Skitzo.”
“I believe everyone has at least five
personalities, like when you go home and
face your parents, your lover, your friends,
your colleagues, your boss, and like, some
PR friends,” Ho explained. “Some people
have guilt trips about having different
faces, like they feel like they’re two-faced,
which I don’t think so. That’s why we need
to put this concept out there, so when
people really understand our lyrics and
our music, I hope everyone feels that
‘We’re OK. We’re all OK. We’re fine.’”
Split might just be the way Ho, 42, feels
about her life. The daughter of Macau
casino mogul Stanley Ho, Josie defied her
parents and refused to join the family
SPLIT LIFE. Hong Kong actress and singer
Josie Ho talks during an interview in Hong Kong.
Josie, the daughter of Macau casino mogul Stanley
Ho, is putting out new music, touring Asia, and shot
a new travel segment on TLC. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
business. Instead, she wanted to become
an actress and singer.
In 1996, she released her first solo al-
bums and also began acting in films. How-
ever, it wasn’t until she played a prostitute
in the 2003 movie Naked Ambition that
critics began to take her seriously as an
actress. For that performance, Ho won the
Best Supporting Actress award at the
Hong Kong Film Awards. She also
attempted to break into Hollywood,
gaining a small part in Steven Soder-
bergh’s movie Contagion about the SARS
epidemic.
This year, Ho is celebrating the 10th
anniversary of her band. They are kicking
Summer Run
off a tour in Tokyo this month, and Ho
could hardly contain her excitement.
“I’m going to be able to perform like a
Japanese band at their live houses. Those
are not just any live houses, those are
sacred rock ‘n’ roll, hall-of-fame places. So
I’m really honored to play there,” Ho said.
After Japan, Josie and the Uni Boys
head to China, the Philippines, and
Taiwan before returning home to Hong
Kong next spring. Until then, fans can
catch Ho on TLC on “A Taste of Hong Kong
with Josie Ho,” where she hosts other
Asian celebrities in Hong Kong and shows
them around town. Her favorite spot in
Hong Kong? Surprisingly, the outdoors.
“A lot of countries have outdoor sports as
well, but our outdoor sports are only 20
minutes away from the city. So I think we
have the upper hand, compared to other
cities in Asia. So you can go wakeboarding,
take 45 minutes to shower and change,
and go to work in central. So I think that’s
a really important point to tell people,” she
said.
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VENERABLE PANDA PASSES. Basi the giant panda eats plants during ceremonies to mark her 35th
birthday at the Fuzhou Giant Panda Research Center in Fuzhou in southeastern China’s Fujian province on No-
vember 28, 2015. Basi, who was the oldest known panda in the world, visited the United States in 1987 and
was the mascot for the 11th Asian Games in Beijing in 1990. (Chinatopix via AP, File)
China mourns death of oldest panda
BEIJING (AP) — China
is mourning the death of
the world’s oldest panda,
Basi, who attracted mil-
lions of visitors during a
visit to the United States
30 years ago.
Caretakers
in
the
eastern city of Fuzhou said
Basi was suffering from a
number
of
ailments,
including liver and kidney
problems, when she died in
mid-September at age 37.
Her body is to be
preserved and placed in a
museum dedicated to her
life, the official Xinhua
News Agency reported.
“She was very talented
and liked weight-lifting,
riding a bicycle, and play-
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said.
Born in the wild in 1980,
Basi was discovered by
villagers after falling into
an icy river in the western
province of Sichuan at age
four and sent to the
breeding center in Fuzhou.
She lived out her life there
without giving birth to
cubs.
She made a then-rare
visit to San Diego in the
United States in 1987,
where she drew more than
2 million visitors during a
200-day stay accompanied
by fellow panda Yuan
Yuan, and was the model
for the mascot of the 11th
Asian Games, which was
held in Beijing in 1990.
The rare giant pandas
are
China’s
unofficial
national mascot and live
mainly in Sichuan’s bam-
boo-covered mountains.
An estimated 1,864 exist
in the wild, where they are
threatened chiefly with
habitat loss, and around
420 others live in captivity
in zoos and reserves, the
majority within China.
Giant
pandas
are
generally considered old
after reaching age 20, but
can live for many more
years in captivity, where
they can be treated for
diseases and shielded from
accidents.
That has led to a growing
number of geriatric captive
pandas who suffer from
failing
eyesight,
poor
digestion, bad teeth, and
arthritic limbs, along with
fluctuating emotions. A
special home for the old
timers has been set up in
Sichuan
to
provide
customized diets, exercise,
and other care aimed at
improving their quality of
life.
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