Hong Kong Fu Airline

China -- (Hong Kong) In order to deal with unruly - and most often drunk - passengers, Hong Kong Airlines is set to have all its cabin crew take kung fu classes, according to google.com.

The airlines has said that all staff have been invited to participate in wing chun training, but that this training had been made compulsory only for their cabin crews.

The company's deputy general manager of corporate communication said they had on the average of three incidents involving disruptive passengers every week on board their aircrafts.

On a recent flight from Beijing to Hong Kong, a crew member reportedly had to put her martial arts training into practice.

Real-Lee?

A huge fan, a tad vain, or just a real-lee big ego?

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A Hong Kong man paid $5,000 on Saturday for a car license plate that read "BRUCELEE," after the late kung fu movie star.

"When I studied in England, foreigners would only know two Chinese people. One is Bruce Lee. The other is Chairman Mao (Zedong)," the buyer, identified only by his surname, Wong, said on a Hong Kong cable television station.

The Lee-inspired plate was among several vanity plates to be auctioned Saturday by the Hong Kong Transport Department, according to the department's Web site. The results of the auction weren't immediately available.

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Real-Li?

Few people in their right minds would pick a fight with Jet Li. After all, the actor in martial arts flicks like Fearless and Hero is known for his gongfu skills.

But there were no flying kicks or showy moves on Sunday, during a real life face-off with some angry villagers from China.

Jet and co-stars Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro were in Hebei province to film the Chinese period epic titled, ironically enough, This Violent Land.

One of the crew members got into a dispute with a local driver, reported Hong Kong's The Sun newspaper.

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Closely kept secrets

In what seems more like a movie script, than a real life story, Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan has revealed some closely kept secrets about his parents and his past life experiences.

The martial-arts star had always thought that he didn’t have any siblings, until one day when his father told him that he has two sisters and two brothers.

He revealed that his parents were very poor and both had lost their spouses during a war before they met each other. They fell in love with each other when his mother, who was an opium supplier was caught by his father who was a customs police officer. At the time of the incident his mother had two daughters and his father had two sons.

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Clarifying the legend

Hong Kong -- Bruce Lee's family is set to tackle unspecified "fabricated or exaggerated" stories about the late kung fu legend by making a movie and publishing a book about him, his brother said.

"To this day, many stories about Bruce Lee continue to be told, many of which are fabricated or exaggerated," Robert Lee, president of the Bruce Lee Club, said in a statement.

"Today, as Bruce's brothers and sisters are getting older, and in order to help the public understand the real life of Bruce Lee, Robert has been appointed a very heavy responsibility from the family to clarify the legend of Bruce Lee," the statement added.

Lee said the film would be planned and produced by the family, with auditions for the lead role beginning soon.

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Drunken kung-fu

How embarrassing...

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Hong Kong -- An apparently intoxicated Jackie Chan disrupted a concert by Taiwanese singer-songwriter Jonathan Lee in Hong Kong and exchanged insults with the audience, a news report said Tuesday.

Ming Pao Daily News said Chan suddenly jumped on stage at the concert Monday night and demanded a duet with Lee. He then tried to conduct the band but stopped and restarted the music several times, Ming Pao said.

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Something in common

What do "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" star Chow Yun-fat, Cannes best-actor winner Tony Leung Chiu-wai and comic director Stephen Chow of "Shaolin Soccer" fame have in common?

They all studied at the same place, founded in 1971: Hong Kong TV station TVB's performing artist training program.

Unlike performing-arts conservatories that offer full-fledged degree programs, TVB's acting program, with a hands-on, condensed curriculum, is practical and abbreviated.

Apart from stage theory and basics on TV production, trainees also learn hosting, makeup, dance and martial arts. It started out as a part-time, night program and the curriculum has never been structured to last more than a year.

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Another Jackie Chan or Jet Li?

Yuen Wo-ping, the creator of the martial arts scenes in "The Matrix'' and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'' worries that Hong Kong may not produce another Jackie Chan or Jet Li.

Hong Kongers now shy away from the hard work that martial arts training entails, he said Monday at a tribute to action choreographers organized by the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

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Kung-Shoe

Jackie Chan is blaming the stuntman's shoes, and not the stuntman, for sending him to the hospital for a checkup.

Chan, 51, said in a statement on his Web site that was kicked in the chest while shooting his new action-comedy, "Rob-B-Hood" in Hong Kong last Thursday.

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