Archive for April, 2007

Alain Delon has to stop his theatre play for 8 days after an heart attack…

But he looked great when I met him in a small restaurant near Champs-Elysées several weeks ago after his show!!
He was very proud of telling me his age then looked at my face which was full of surprises. He knew it.
Comparing to Chirac, who is also a handsome man, we could find at least 10 […]

Posted by Liu Yi on April 27th, 2007

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Vision étrangère sur une élection bien française

Un hôtel rue de l’Université, cet après-midi.
Nous étions six. Un journaliste du Times, un de CNN, un israélien, un italien, le journaliste français qui avait organisé la rencontre, et moi. L’interview va être publié dans un magazine “pour hommes”… et j’étais la seule femme !
Sujet : l’élection présidentielle en France, évidemment.
C’était assez amusant d’avoir dans […]

Posted by admin on April 24th, 2007

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Hello from Munich

A very urgent mission, received phonecall from Hongkong at 9:50 of asking me try to be in Munich before 15 o’clock the same day!!!!
Superwoman arrives! Searching plane tickets, trying to find a hotel room (the price had been raised more than 3 times, and it’s full everywhere. what a bloom exposition season!)…finally I jumped […]

Posted by Liu Yi on April 24th, 2007

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Another day of more than 20 hours work…

I finished my reports at 1am, but the news department called me for direct report by telephone at every hour!!!!
Just finished my last direct emission near Arc de Triumph… Really big attentions from China for this election in France!
I had talked about what happened last evenings, how the media in France react today, I […]

Posted by Liu Yi on April 23rd, 2007

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22/04/2007 at 20h00

Started my day at 5am with a live report by telephone for the news of 11am to the channel of INFONEWS… the HK center seemed so exciting about the election, they even could not wait till 8am the opening of the vote office!
6 hours of difference…
Till 12h00, in the metropolitans in France, only 31,21% […]

Posted by Liu Yi on April 22nd, 2007

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QGs

Means “headquarter” in English. It’s how we call the center of the candidate for the election in France.
Since the big strike of the Chinese in Milan had been cancelled, I am staying in France and spending my days and nights on preparing the documents and the live reports for this Sunday, the first round election.
One […]

Posted by Liu Yi on April 19th, 2007

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Avec Alain de Greef à Deauville

Dailymotion blogged video

Posted by admin on April 16th, 2007

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the ice-melting trip

The just finished visit of Chinese Primary Minister WEN Jiabao in Japon was called the “trip of melting the ice”, while the earlier visit to China by ABE, was called the “trip of breaking the ice”.
All the journalists love to follow WEN Jiabao because he speaks a lot to the microphones of the journalists during […]

Posted by Liu Yi on April 14th, 2007

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A big hello from Barcelona

It is not as sunny as in Paris, but my meeting with Mr. Juan Antonio Samaranch was warm enough.
This Olympic symbol, who had successfully brought the Spirit of Olympics to China and beloved by all the Chinese people, will be 87 years old in this July (the same month as my birthday)!
I brought him the […]

Posted by Liu Yi on April 11th, 2007

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reply to the sadness of Mikejagger that there wasn’t any popular or even cultural event organized in Paris for the 50 years of EU.

Actually, not only in Paris, even in Bruxelles, the headquarter of EU, it was very calm that day, except one concert.
Even in Berlin, where we’ve never seen so many people in the street, they seemed more enjoying the events than the meanings of the celebrations…
Have people in Europe really lost the enthusiasm of EU?
Does EU […]

Posted by Liu Yi on April 8th, 2007

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