CHINA DAILY

Lau not expecting child

Andy Lau denies recently he is having a second child. Lau said his wife is not pregnant, but he expects good news soon. The superstar singer/actor was promoting his 146th film, an action thriller named Fire Storm. He is the film's investor and lead actor. The film turns Hong Kong, one of the safest cities in Asia, into a battlefield between cops and gangs. The 52-year-old star did stunts including a car chase and jumping from a skyscraper. The film will be released on Dec 12.

Documentary project

China Education Television has launched a project recently to help college students produce documentaries. The project will financially support students whose story proposals are approved by a committee made up of documentary experts. The films will be shown on the official website of the TV station, and those with more clicks win priorities in the competition of Golden Panda Awards, an event co-hosted by the TV station and Sichuan Television Festival every year to celebrate documentary talents among college students.

Bears tell cultural stories

A pocketful of stories on Chinese traditional culture will soon be shown onstage. Chinese Stories in a Pocket, a new children's play by China Children's Art Theater in Beijing will open on Dec 21. Directed by Liao Wei, the play follows a family of four bears. The bears have a pocket that pours out enlightening traditional stories whenever they need help coping with life problems. The play is the first in the theater's 2014 series of acts under the theme of Chinese traditional culture.

Big Wave cast meet press

The cast of the epic TV series Big Wave met the press in Chengdu, Sichuan province, during the recently held 12th Sichuan TV Festival. Directed by Xu Ruisheng, a famous Chinese director and scriptwriter, the series is being shot in Chengdu and will be shown on TV in 2014. The series is based on the namesake novel written by Li Jieren, a famous writer in Sichuan, and published in 1937. It has the revolution of 1911 as the background, when young people in Sichuan wanted to change the corrupt government of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

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