Beautiful Faye 31 May 2001 -- Singaporean Leslie Kee will be takeing the photos for Faye's next album next month. FROM The Straits Times today: Left 1993 for Japan to study the language and culture. In 1998 he started free-lancing for Vogue Magazine Taiwan. He'll be working with Zing on Faye's album. Katie Chan contacted him about a year ago but the deal was closed only last month. Leslise Kee says he has always ben a big fan of Faye's music, and he says photographing her is pressurising since she has always been photographed by veteran Taiwanese photographer Cheung Man Wah. The look for the album has not been finalised and he has met Faye a few times so far and describes her as 'charming'.   Source: Fayenatics.org

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Ming Pao News
Apple Daily 1
Apple Daily 2
NetEase

29 May 2001 -- Not much news about Faye these days ... I added the new CD to my discography today.

25 May 2001

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Apple Daily

24 May 2001 -- Faye will have a new single out on July 25 :) The tentative name is "Separeta Ways - Shining Like The Moon". There is more details in Japanese at Fayevolution 21.   Source: Fayevolution 21

24 May 2001 -- Faye won the 2nd Quarter of the Global Best Chinese Songs Award for "I Like It Much More Than You Do" (你喜歡不如我喜歡). Congratulations.   Source: Fayenatics.org

23 May 2001

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The Sun HK
Apple Daily
Ming Pao News
Sing Tao News
Show8

22 May 2001

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EastTouch Home
Sina Daily News

21 May 2001 -- All of you know Anthony Wong is going to compose a song for Faye in her new album. He will supervise the making of that song too. And that's next week. That means Faye will start recording her new album next week :) Anthony said he has composed a number of songs for Faye, but Faye finally chosed a song composed by a member of "Ren Shan Ren Hai". Anthony also said it's a challenging task and he does not have much pressure. He believe Faye and him would have some "spark".   Source: Sina Daily News

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Yahoo HK
UDN News

20 May 2001

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The Sun HK
Sina Daily News

17 May 2001 -- First picture of Faye from the Japanese TV play.   Source: Fayevolution 21

17 May 2001 -- Nicholas Tse (Faye's boyfriend) gave a radio interview the other day, he said: "I have thought of getting married within two years and have a son!!!!" He didn't meantion Faye by name, but ...

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Show8
The Sun HK
Apple Daily
Ming Pao News
Oriental Daily

16 May 2001 -- Sina daily news has an article titled "Faye almost lost her life under water" from the making of the "Xiang Nai Er" MTV. The MTV was beautifully done. They spend a lot of time with it. This MTV was done by a director from China. After it was done, even directors from Taiwan say it was very well done. There were a lot of innovation and experience with many new techniques for this MTV. The Taiwanese director said The under water scene were really nice. I think he must have spent a lot of time in this MTV. Faye's expression was very much alive."

After seeing the MTV, the writer were impressed how Faye did all the hard work for the under water scene. Although Faye had to hold her breath under water, she still showing her acting confidence and beautiful expression. It seems like she were not in pain at all. The flowing effect under water makes each movement difficult.   Source: Fayenatics.org

16 May 2001 -- This is off topic ... There is a new CD out with Teresa Teng with new songs on. Aparently her brother discovered the songs and had the cd released. It's called "Inoubliable" (忘不了) and has 7 Chinese and 5 English songs. The English songs was recorded in France (don't ask me when she went there).   Source: Generation-T

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Sing Tao News
Sina daily news

15 May 2001 -- There's a varity show for promoting the Jiu Yun Hui (Jiu Yun Happy Festival) on September 15. It will be held at the newly opened Olympic Center in Guangdong. There will be a lot of superstars in the show, including Faye, Na Ying, Sandy Lam, Jacky Chan, Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse, Lau Huan etc. Also Jackie Chan may come if time allows. For original article in Chinese, go to Sina daily news.   Source: Fayenatics.org

13 May 2001 -- Faye's Japan concert will most likely be held on September 1st and 2nd in Tokyo and Osaka. However it's not confirmed yet.   Source: Fayevolution 21

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Sudden Weekly
eDaily News

12 May 2001 -- There is a new pirate CD of Faye being sold in HK these days, so make sure not to buy it. It has some new songs but Faye aren't singing them, so it's all fake. You can read more about this at Fayenatics.org

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Sina daily news
Show8
The Sun HK
Ming Pao News 1
Ming Pao News 2
ET Today

10 May 2001 -- The new CD from Cinepoly, "王菲音樂盒 Faye Instrumental", is out now. It has 20 of Faye's earlier songs in instrumental versions. If you want to buy the cd you can do it from Yesasia as usual. It will cost you US$11.99. This is what the cover looks like and the track list.

CD cover

Track list

10 May 2001 -- Faye is planing some more concerts in mainland China this year. Aftre finishing the in Japan with Fuji TV she will hold a concert in Shanghai in August, this is confirmed. Concerts are also planed for Sichuan but time and place is not yet confirmed. Maybe somebody has more info on this?   Source: aFaye.com

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Yahoo HK
Yahoo Taiwan 1
Yahoo Taiwan 2

9 May 2001

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UDN News

8 May 2001

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Oriental Daily
Sina daily news 1
Sina daily news 2
Sina daily news 3
Yahoo HK

7 May 2001

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Show8
Oriental Daily
Ming Pao News
Yahoo HK 1
Yahoo HK 2
Yahoo HK 3
Showbiz ChinaTimes
Apple Daily

6 May 2001 -- Faye didn't win any of the 5 nominated awards yesterday at Taiwan's Golden Melody Award :(. Better luck next time.

6 May 2001 -- I have to correct the news a few days that Faye's Japanese concert is the first one, it's not. Faye already sang at Budokan.

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Yahoo China
Sina daily news

5 May 2001

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ET today
HitFM Taiwan
UDN Stars
Sina daily news
Sudden Weekly
Apple Daily

3 May 2001 -- Happy birthday, Fayenatics! The name "Fayenatics" was unofficially announced on 3rd May 1997. It was voted the most "desirable" name by Faye fans in the Faye Wong mailing list then. From then onwards, regardless of your races, nation, religion, as long as you're a Faye fan and exist on this WWW, you're called a FAYENATIC!!!

1 May 2001 -- Faye is planing a concert in Japan in September, probably in Tokyo. This is the first time Faye will sing in Japan.   Source: Fayevolution 21

1 May 2001 -- Acording to Toshiba-EMI Japan Faye will release her new album in September, no date is set yet. Probably it will be release in Japan at the same time as HK so we can expect some songs in Japanese.  Source: Fayenatics.org

1 May 2001 -- News on Japanese drama. Nakai Kiichi (the male leading role) is a landscape photographer, he has a marriage contract with Yukie Nakama, who is the daughter of an entrepreneur. But before their merriage, he met a Chinese lady (and that's Faye of course). Then they will start a love affair. The title will something like "Lie Love" we know that it's a love story begins wil a lie! It is a romantic, love comdey. The drama will be shown starting from July 3, every Tuesday, 10 - 11.

In the story, faye is a fashion designer from mainland China. Her name is Lam Faye (translation only). Her dream is to get into the world designer market. She wants to enigrate to Japan, therefore, she gets "marry" with a guy she has never met before. Of course that's not a real marriage and that guy is Nakai Kiichi, the male leading role. But Nakai doesn't know that until he goes to apply to get marry with Yukie Nakama. Then he finally realized that he has get married with Faye. Therefore, he immediately goes to find Faye and askes her to divorce.

Since Faye has not get the Japan passport yet, she refused and used a lot of methods to prevent the divorce. She used Japanese to say "You, me, will love one and other. Begins with lie, We fall in love, can't that happened?" Therfore, Nakai is forced to live together with Yukie without getting married. Menawhile, he goes to find Faye every day and persuade her to divorce. But, when time goes, Nakai becomes want to see Faye every day. There are a lot of jokes in the story. Also, there is a handsome actor, Nakamura Syummsuke

Also, Faye is the one who sing the theme song, the CD will be out on July 25. But they haven't announced whether the song is in Japanese or English. Till now, they have finished shooting the first two volumes. Original news can be read at Netvigator and The Sun HK.   Source: Fayenatics.org

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Apple Daily
ShowBiz
Official Japanese "Okinawa Rendez-vous" site




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