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Dr Teck Keong Khong
General Medical Practitioner and Forensic Physician, and Parliamentary Candidate of the Conservative Party
Community. Politics. Science.
Dr Teck Khong read medicine at Sheffield University and law at Cardiff University. Although his medical practice is in Leicester, Dr Khong also consults at the Out-of-Hours medical centre in Danetre Hospital, Daventry. Additionally, he is a forensic physician for the Northamptonshire Police.
He is a member of the Local Medical Committee, a past-president of the Leicestershire and Rutland Division of the BMA and a past-president of the Leicestershire Medico-Legal Society. Although he has not been selected for the 2010 General Election, he remains an approved parliamentary candidate of the Conservative Party.
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Alice Lee
Actress / Writer / ProducerFilm, TV & Radio.
Alice Lee has been a television, stage and film actress since 2003 and has worked in Australia, Hong Kong, China and the UK. In Hong Kong, she has worked with many distinguished directors such as Tsui Hak and Wong Jing. She appeared in Stephen Fung’s Diary on the leading HK terrestrial broadcaster TVB, co-presented a chat show on Hong Kong Cable TV and interviewed the chef, Martin Yan (Yan Can Cook) for Martin Yan’s Hong Kong which was broadcast globally.
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Stevie Hoang
R&B Producer-ArtistMusic.
Some numbers: 15.5 million plays on Myspace; 1.2 million YouTube views for the ‘video’ for a song (Addicted) that was just a black screen; 65,000 albums sold in Japan; a Number One airplay single in Japan, All Night Long; in the UK, 3000 albums shifted, sold by the artist himself (literally)…
Stevie Hoang – Essex-based 24-year-old DIY R&B producer-artist extraordinaire – has achieved all of the above. Working out of his bedroom, and his own song-spinning imagination, he has already crafted upwards of 50 songs. Via Myspace, YouTube and an entrepreneurial flair that saw him strike international record deals before any UK label had a clue who he was, Hoang has already topped the Myspace chart in the US and released two albums in Japan – where, after repeated trips to Tokyo, he’s a major star on the Japanese charts and club scene.
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Tina Freeth (Chen Mei Xi)
Author / Screenwriter / StorytellerLiterature.
Tina is a 'Chinese Brummie' writer of fiction, creative non-fiction, children's books and short films. She is currently finishing off her studies with the National Academy of Writing based in Birmingham and working on various full length projects including her much anticipated memoir, Chinese Chips (working title).
Tina's most recent publications The Crew: Day of the Dog (2009) and The Crew: Hot or Not? (2009) are published by leading educational publisher Franklin Watts and are part of six reluctant reader titles penned under the pseudonym Sam Carter. Tina's writing can also be found in the anthologies: The Map of Me (2008, Penguin), Finding A Voice (2008, National Academy of Writing/Imprimata) and Original Skin (2007, Birmingham Libraries/Brewin Books).
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George Lee
Parliamentary CandidateBusiness. Community. Politics.
I have a photo of a ramshackle pig shed. It’s a picture of where I was born. Sometimes, searching for other things, I come across it. It’s another world now, so far away it’s like looking the wrong way through a telescope. But it’s where I began.
My parents left rural poverty in Hong Kong for Britain when I was one. My brothers and sisters and I stayed, in the care of a family friend. It was a big change, but not what my parents had hoped. Instead of going to school, we made plastic flowers in a toy factory for the woman they had trusted with our care. I was ten when we joined my parents. I knew one English word when I arrived; ‘tomorrow’.
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Photo courtesy of The Pearl Foundation
Louise Wong
SolicitorCommunity. Law.
Louise was the Winner of The Pearl Award (an annual ceremony held to celebrate UK Chinese achievements) for Most Promising Newcomer in 2006.
As a brief background about me. I was born in England. At 17 years of age I read law at Derby University and graduated with an honours degree in LLB Law with European Studies. Following a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice at 21 I was a trainee solicitor at Derby Law Centre for 2 years before I fully qualified at 23 to become the youngest solicitor in England and Wales in October 2005, as attested by the Law Society.
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Zoë Baxter
DJ/Radio presenterArts. Culture. Film, TV & Radio. Music.
Zoë started Djing at parties in 2000 and progressed to Internet radio and then community radio. She has always had a keen interest in East Asian cinema and cuisine and this lead her to investigate East Asian music. Now she is a collector of vinyl with a specialist interest in 1960’s ‘Asia Beat’.
In 2005 Zoë presented and produced Ni Hao Chinatown parts 1 & 2 for the London community arts radio station Resonance FM focusing on the Save Chinatown Campaign and the history of Chinese immigration in London.
Following on from this Zoë presented and produced a weekly radio show for Resonance FM called Lucky Cat. With a focus on Chinese and East Asian culture the magazine style programme featured guests, music, film and art reviews and topical issues (e.g. the Takeaway Racism Campaign).
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Jeremy Tiang 程异
Actor, writerArts. Film, TV & Radio. Literature. Theatre.
Jeremy is originally from Singapore, and is equally fluent in Mandarin and English. After reading English Literature at Oxford, he trained as an actor at Drama Centre London.
Performance credits include Peace Pagoda (Royal Opera House), The First Emperor (British Museum/ Yellow Earth Theatre), Jingo (Finborough), Ex Humare (King's Head Theatre), Hounslow West (Theatre503), Men of Monsters (Hen & Chickens), Rendition Monologues, The Illegals, Seven Years With Hard Labour (iceandfire), A Singapore Carol (Singapore Repertory Theatre), 8.3 Minutes (short film, opposite Colin Salmon), The Madness of the Dance (short film, opposite Maxine Peake), and the Bollywood film Show Man. Jeremy has also taken part in rehearsed readings for the Royal Court, Soho Theatre and King's Head Theatre.
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Dr Michael Koon Fat Tang
Cosmetic Dental SurgeonScience.
Michael, a member of Mensa, graduated with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery with Commendation from Glasgow University in 2002 and in the same year published a research paper on Oral MRSA in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. He became a partner of a large six surgery dental practice in 2006 and gained his Membership of the Faculty of General Dental Practitoners (MFGDP) post graduate qualification from the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners (Royal College of Surgeons) in 2007.
Michael has a special interest in innovative dentistry including Invisalign invisible orthodontics, Lumineers smile makeovers and dental implantology. He is keen on continual professional development and has attended many relevant post-graduate courses including those held in Harley Street, London. Michael has also completed an intensive implantology course in the influential Medical Faculty in Boston, USA and is a member of the Association of Dental Implantology. He is also a member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.
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Jo Ho
Screenwriter and Film DirectorEntertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Literature.
Jo Ho is a British born Chinese screenwriter and director, and the creator of the new BBC series "SPIRIT WARRIORS" (previously known as "BO AND THE SPIRIT WORLD"), which begins airing mid January 2010 on CBBC, BBC 1 and BBC HD.
Mixing live-action martial arts fantasy with CGI characters and the latest HD digital technology, Spirit Warriors promises to deliver a visual spectacle the whole family can enjoy. Loosely inspired by Chinese myths and legends, and stars a young Chinese girl and her sister, who along with their friends, enter into a mythical Spirit World in order to save the universe from the evil warlord Li and his army of shadowlike warriors.
SPIRIT WARRIORS will be the first TV drama series made in the UK that stars a predominately East Asian Cast.
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