Jacqueline Pang
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Jacqueline Pang Traditional Chinese - 彭晴 (born August 27, 1974) is a Hong Kong
live television compère/host, interviewer, and a radio announcer on RTHK since 1998.
Jacqueline 'Pang Ching' http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/presenters/profiles.php?c=radio2&m=djprofiles&a=showdj&djid=88 is a popular Radio Programme Host on the Government Public Broadcaster - Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) Radio 2 Channel, FM 94.8 MHz-96.9 MHz. In March 2008 Jacqueline Pang left her Weekday show, the 06:30-10:00 'Morning Suite' which she co-Hosted since 2004, and from July 2009 left her Saturday 12:00-14:00 'Chinese Top 20 Pop Chart'(中 文 歌 曲 龍 虎 榜). Jacqueline 'Pang Ching's programmes still can be heard on on RTHK's Radio 2 Archives a year after her broadcast dates.
On 4 October 2009, Jacqueline Pang Ching returned to RTHK's Radio 2 Cantonese Channel hosting a new Sunday (14:00-16:00) Talk Programme reflecting her own and the General Public's Single-and-over-30-year-olds' social needs in Hong Kong. Her co-host in this segment is a younger male DJ - Tsang Chi-Ho http://programme.rthk.org.hk/channel/presenters/profiles.php?c=radio2&m=djprofiles&a=showdj&djid=257, fast-talking, uses Cantonese innuendos and sexually suggestive connotations. Link to the RTHK Press Release:http://www.rthk.org.hk/press/chi/20090929_66_122384.html.
From March 2008, Jacqueline “Pang Ching” is the Senior Anchor for PCCW's 'NOW!News' LIVE Morning Programme (09:30-12:30) on Channel 332, which focuses on current affairs.
Jacqueline Pang's first Book About 7 Gay/Lesbian TRUE Love Stories is "Yi Zhong Ai Qi Duan Qing" '一種愛 七段情'. Literally translated as 'One Kind of Love but Seven Situations', is a short, narrative style of writing. It was released on 18 July 2007 at the Annual Hong Kong Book Fair. A second paperback titled '中女挑宅男'http://joyful-books.com/?tag=%E5%BD%AD%E6%99%B4 published just before 2011, is a collection of short stories recounted from her popular RTHK Radio Programme "Nerds and Lassies". In July 2011 Jacqueline released another book in Chinese entitled "中女解毒" or "Women in Detoxification" http://yun.im/yunseo/11686.html in parallel with a Stage play of that name.
Jacqueline Pang also is a regular Contributor to the Weekday (Hong Kong) Chinese Language Newspaper "AM730" http://www.am730.com.hk/old_issues.asp on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The article is titled 'Zhong Nui Wan Sui' (Happy Zhong Girls)
Jacqueline Pang contributed Monday articles in English to the 'Local' Section of the daily printed free Standard Newspaper as well as the On-line Version of the Standard.http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.thestandard.com.hk+%2BJacqueline+Pang&hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enHK325HK325&start=0&sa=N These articles echoed her personal online and public "Blog" in Chinese http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/jpangching827. The last of a year's Jacqueline's well-received short articles was printed on 25-10-2010.
Born on 27 August 1974 in Hong Kong to Fujian
-ese parents of Vietnamese origin, she was educated in Toronto
, Canada, where her parents now reside. She has one younger sister who participated in the Miss Hong Kong Pageant of 1997. Jacqueline Pang also worked briefly as an Airline Hostess at Virgin Airways before embarking on her career in Hong Kong Broadcasting.
With Asian listeners of Radio Television Hong Kong RTHK, the free-to-air Government Public Broadcaster, Jacqueline has a following of ardent fans. All through her broadcasting career in Hong Kong, she has interviewed countless celebrities with different backgrounds.
Jacqueline joined RTHK (in 1998), having a brief background as DJ in Toronto. Jacqueline Pang trained further at RTHK's Radio 2 http://www.rthk.org.hk/channel/radio2/ Cantonese Channel and became a very popular DJ.
From May 2004, Jacqueline Pang switched from a midnight Music Programme 'Late Mother, Late Father' to the leading 06:00-10:00 weekday long-running Radio Programme ‘Morning Suite’(to replace Candy Che Suk-Mui), and also co-Host the Saturday 12:00-14:00 'Cantonese Top 20 Pop Chart'(link below) increasing her on-air exposure.
A very animated Hostess and MC for Live Stage and TV Shows http://www.primehk.com/news/issue30/page6_en.html, Special Events http://www.hkolympic.org/article/articles_archive_view/430, Jacqueline also performs Master of Ceremonies duties http://www.choosy.com.hk/ws/files/mc/jacqueline.pdf to High-Society Private Parties (Link to TMA Annual Ball)http://www.tma.org.hk/en_newsevents_n1.asp?Back=T&newsId=52, and has done New Product Announcements for 'Yili' http://www.primehk.com/news/issue25/en/mp06a_en.html and 'Rejoice' http://www.primehk.com/news/issue22/en/mp04a_en.html. Jacqueline also lectures on Public Speaking at the HK Productivity Council and makes appearances as a Judge at the Master-of-Ceremony Competitions http://hk.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/friends_of_hkgd/message/143.
Early in her Broadcasting Career, Jacqueline Pang was asked by Director Alan K.K. Yip to sing (in Cantonese) the Theme Song for a Korean Drama (which was broadcast on Cable TV). Besides the Theme Song named "A Wrongly Secured Love"(錯落的深情) that also rose to hit the No.12 spot and stayed for 3 weeks on the Cantonese Golden Songs Pop Chart in March 2003, Jacqueline Pang had other songs on the Top 20 Chart like "Waiting For Your Love"(等你的愛) sung with Chan Kin Chong(陳敬創).
Jacqueline Pang is also noted for her unique voice changes when she takes on the part of a character in radio plays. Using this and similar skills, she earned a place to play a main character in the 1999 Radio RTHK play "The Book and The Sword". With this skill, she was also found appealing by dubbing studios for advertisements. In this video link, she shows budding DJs how to perform different voices on Radio http://teenpower1.rthk.org.hk/tptv/inside.php?id=180.
The latest Appearances of Jacqueline on RTHK's "Teen Power" coaching prospective Radio/Television DeeJays on how to use Voice Changes to emphasize time-of-day, or Sympathy, or Happiness can be found on links at the bottom of this page.
In 2003, Jacqueline Pang married a businessman, but she divorced him in 2006. She has one son. Jacqueline was interviewed by local newspaper Ming Pao in Chinese about her personal feelings in this article:http://happypama.mingpao.com/cfm/parenting3.cfm?File=20100606/newa/oka3.txt
Jacqueline Pang was mostly noted for her Hosting of the popular annual Environmental Program, “The Solar Project”http://www.rthk.org.hk/press/chi/20060626_66_121018.html, a RTHK combined LIVE Radio-and-TV stage production since 2001. Her last (7th Solar Project 2007) 'Let's Go' Concert by RTHK was held in Hong Kong in conjunction with TVB.http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/tv/solarproject2007letsgoconcert/20070902.html
However, the previous (6th) 'Hand In Hand' Solar Project 2006 took place in Xi'an
, China, where Jacqueline Pang Ching displayed her fluency in Putonghua as Co-host.
In October 2007 (until February 2008) Jacqueline Pang Ching was asked by PCCW
's Now TV
Broadband 'NOW! News' Channel 332 to Co-host in a weekday, thrice daily, 3-minute Video News Roundup 'Witty Banter'.http://202.66.146.82/listco/hk/pccw/newsflash/n071022.pdf, and did very well to attract viewers to the Channel.
1 March 2008, Jacqueline Pang was offered a full-time position as the Senior Anchor for the weekday Morning News Program (09:30-12:30) on PCCW's NOW!TV Broadband Channel 332.
In March 2008, After the Grand Opening in 2007 of the "Dim Sum TV" http://www.dim-sum-tv.com/index.php?l=e Channel on NOW!TV Broadband's Channel 539, Jacqueline Pang Ching was invited as Host to enhance the Flagship Programme 'Talk Of Fame' (Traditional Chinese - '點心名人榜')http://www.dimsumtv.net/programme/flagship_program/fame.
Jacqueline Pang Hosted several early Episodes, e.g. Epi.3, Koo Kwong Ming(古广明), China's Football Team Coach and Trainer; Epi.5, Choi Yim Pui(蔡炎培), Famous Chinese Poet and Writer of Romance Novels; Epi. 48, Yeung King Fai(杨景辉), Chinese 10M Olympic (Doubles)Diving Gold Medalist; Epi. 63, Lau Yee Tat(刘以达) a famous local Songwriter and Musician, Epi. 65, World-Class Female Conductor Ms. Yip Wing Sie(叶咏诗); Epi. 68, Famous Ballerina and Coach from Guangzhou Ms. Cheung Dan Dan, and Epi. 72, Hong Kong's own Olympic Silver Medalists for Male Table Tennis (Doubles), Ko Lei Chak(高礼泽) and Li Ching(李静), thus showing her Hosting and Research skills at a multitude of topics.
NOTE: Links that lead to RTHK's Program archives are valid for one year from the date of Broadcast, after which might be removed by RTHK. (They may be available elsewhere as .MP3s with adverts removed).
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live television compère/host, interviewer, and a radio announcer on RTHK since 1998.
Jacqueline 'Pang Ching' http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/presenters/profiles.php?c=radio2&m=djprofiles&a=showdj&djid=88 is a popular Radio Programme Host on the Government Public Broadcaster - Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) Radio 2 Channel, FM 94.8 MHz-96.9 MHz. In March 2008 Jacqueline Pang left her Weekday show, the 06:30-10:00 'Morning Suite' which she co-Hosted since 2004, and from July 2009 left her Saturday 12:00-14:00 'Chinese Top 20 Pop Chart'(中 文 歌 曲 龍 虎 榜). Jacqueline 'Pang Ching's programmes still can be heard on on RTHK's Radio 2 Archives a year after her broadcast dates.
On 4 October 2009, Jacqueline Pang Ching returned to RTHK's Radio 2 Cantonese Channel hosting a new Sunday (14:00-16:00) Talk Programme reflecting her own and the General Public's Single-and-over-30-year-olds' social needs in Hong Kong. Her co-host in this segment is a younger male DJ - Tsang Chi-Ho http://programme.rthk.org.hk/channel/presenters/profiles.php?c=radio2&m=djprofiles&a=showdj&djid=257, fast-talking, uses Cantonese innuendos and sexually suggestive connotations. Link to the RTHK Press Release:http://www.rthk.org.hk/press/chi/20090929_66_122384.html.
From March 2008, Jacqueline “Pang Ching” is the Senior Anchor for PCCW's 'NOW!News' LIVE Morning Programme (09:30-12:30) on Channel 332, which focuses on current affairs.
Jacqueline Pang's first Book About 7 Gay/Lesbian TRUE Love Stories is "Yi Zhong Ai Qi Duan Qing" '一種愛 七段情'. Literally translated as 'One Kind of Love but Seven Situations', is a short, narrative style of writing. It was released on 18 July 2007 at the Annual Hong Kong Book Fair. A second paperback titled '中女挑宅男'http://joyful-books.com/?tag=%E5%BD%AD%E6%99%B4 published just before 2011, is a collection of short stories recounted from her popular RTHK Radio Programme "Nerds and Lassies". In July 2011 Jacqueline released another book in Chinese entitled "中女解毒" or "Women in Detoxification" http://yun.im/yunseo/11686.html in parallel with a Stage play of that name.
Jacqueline Pang also is a regular Contributor to the Weekday (Hong Kong) Chinese Language Newspaper "AM730" http://www.am730.com.hk/old_issues.asp on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The article is titled 'Zhong Nui Wan Sui' (Happy Zhong Girls)
Jacqueline Pang contributed Monday articles in English to the 'Local' Section of the daily printed free Standard Newspaper as well as the On-line Version of the Standard.http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.thestandard.com.hk+%2BJacqueline+Pang&hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enHK325HK325&start=0&sa=N These articles echoed her personal online and public "Blog" in Chinese http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/jpangching827. The last of a year's Jacqueline's well-received short articles was printed on 25-10-2010.
Background
Jacqueline Pang Ka-Man (Traditional Chinese - 彭家敏) – was nicknamed by RTHK’s Luke Tsang http://www.hkedcity.net/article/sbe3/patrons-TsangChiWah/, now well known as “Pang Ching” 彭晴. Very dedicated to her career, Jacqueline Pang is a popular TV Host in Hong Kong and Radio Announcer/DJ. Jacqueline is fluent in 2 other languages besides her native Cantonese, English, and Putonghua.Born on 27 August 1974 in Hong Kong to Fujian
Fujian
' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...
-ese parents of Vietnamese origin, she was educated in Toronto
Toronto
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, Canada, where her parents now reside. She has one younger sister who participated in the Miss Hong Kong Pageant of 1997. Jacqueline Pang also worked briefly as an Airline Hostess at Virgin Airways before embarking on her career in Hong Kong Broadcasting.
With Asian listeners of Radio Television Hong Kong RTHK, the free-to-air Government Public Broadcaster, Jacqueline has a following of ardent fans. All through her broadcasting career in Hong Kong, she has interviewed countless celebrities with different backgrounds.
Jacqueline joined RTHK (in 1998), having a brief background as DJ in Toronto. Jacqueline Pang trained further at RTHK's Radio 2 http://www.rthk.org.hk/channel/radio2/ Cantonese Channel and became a very popular DJ.
From May 2004, Jacqueline Pang switched from a midnight Music Programme 'Late Mother, Late Father' to the leading 06:00-10:00 weekday long-running Radio Programme ‘Morning Suite’(to replace Candy Che Suk-Mui), and also co-Host the Saturday 12:00-14:00 'Cantonese Top 20 Pop Chart'(link below) increasing her on-air exposure.
A very animated Hostess and MC for Live Stage and TV Shows http://www.primehk.com/news/issue30/page6_en.html, Special Events http://www.hkolympic.org/article/articles_archive_view/430, Jacqueline also performs Master of Ceremonies duties http://www.choosy.com.hk/ws/files/mc/jacqueline.pdf to High-Society Private Parties (Link to TMA Annual Ball)http://www.tma.org.hk/en_newsevents_n1.asp?Back=T&newsId=52, and has done New Product Announcements for 'Yili' http://www.primehk.com/news/issue25/en/mp06a_en.html and 'Rejoice' http://www.primehk.com/news/issue22/en/mp04a_en.html. Jacqueline also lectures on Public Speaking at the HK Productivity Council and makes appearances as a Judge at the Master-of-Ceremony Competitions http://hk.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/friends_of_hkgd/message/143.
Early in her Broadcasting Career, Jacqueline Pang was asked by Director Alan K.K. Yip to sing (in Cantonese) the Theme Song for a Korean Drama (which was broadcast on Cable TV). Besides the Theme Song named "A Wrongly Secured Love"(錯落的深情) that also rose to hit the No.12 spot and stayed for 3 weeks on the Cantonese Golden Songs Pop Chart in March 2003, Jacqueline Pang had other songs on the Top 20 Chart like "Waiting For Your Love"(等你的愛) sung with Chan Kin Chong(陳敬創).
Jacqueline Pang is also noted for her unique voice changes when she takes on the part of a character in radio plays. Using this and similar skills, she earned a place to play a main character in the 1999 Radio RTHK play "The Book and The Sword". With this skill, she was also found appealing by dubbing studios for advertisements. In this video link, she shows budding DJs how to perform different voices on Radio http://teenpower1.rthk.org.hk/tptv/inside.php?id=180.
The latest Appearances of Jacqueline on RTHK's "Teen Power" coaching prospective Radio/Television DeeJays on how to use Voice Changes to emphasize time-of-day, or Sympathy, or Happiness can be found on links at the bottom of this page.
In 2003, Jacqueline Pang married a businessman, but she divorced him in 2006. She has one son. Jacqueline was interviewed by local newspaper Ming Pao in Chinese about her personal feelings in this article:http://happypama.mingpao.com/cfm/parenting3.cfm?File=20100606/newa/oka3.txt
Jacqueline Pang was mostly noted for her Hosting of the popular annual Environmental Program, “The Solar Project”http://www.rthk.org.hk/press/chi/20060626_66_121018.html, a RTHK combined LIVE Radio-and-TV stage production since 2001. Her last (7th Solar Project 2007) 'Let's Go' Concert by RTHK was held in Hong Kong in conjunction with TVB.http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/tv/solarproject2007letsgoconcert/20070902.html
However, the previous (6th) 'Hand In Hand' Solar Project 2006 took place in Xi'an
Xi'an
Xi'an is the capital of the Shaanxi province, and a sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China. One of the oldest cities in China, with more than 3,100 years of history, the city was known as Chang'an before the Ming Dynasty...
, China, where Jacqueline Pang Ching displayed her fluency in Putonghua as Co-host.
In October 2007 (until February 2008) Jacqueline Pang Ching was asked by PCCW
PCCW
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's Now TV
Now TV
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Broadband 'NOW! News' Channel 332 to Co-host in a weekday, thrice daily, 3-minute Video News Roundup 'Witty Banter'.http://202.66.146.82/listco/hk/pccw/newsflash/n071022.pdf, and did very well to attract viewers to the Channel.
1 March 2008, Jacqueline Pang was offered a full-time position as the Senior Anchor for the weekday Morning News Program (09:30-12:30) on PCCW's NOW!TV Broadband Channel 332.
In March 2008, After the Grand Opening in 2007 of the "Dim Sum TV" http://www.dim-sum-tv.com/index.php?l=e Channel on NOW!TV Broadband's Channel 539, Jacqueline Pang Ching was invited as Host to enhance the Flagship Programme 'Talk Of Fame' (Traditional Chinese - '點心名人榜')http://www.dimsumtv.net/programme/flagship_program/fame.
Jacqueline Pang Hosted several early Episodes, e.g. Epi.3, Koo Kwong Ming(古广明), China's Football Team Coach and Trainer; Epi.5, Choi Yim Pui(蔡炎培), Famous Chinese Poet and Writer of Romance Novels; Epi. 48, Yeung King Fai(杨景辉), Chinese 10M Olympic (Doubles)Diving Gold Medalist; Epi. 63, Lau Yee Tat(刘以达) a famous local Songwriter and Musician, Epi. 65, World-Class Female Conductor Ms. Yip Wing Sie(叶咏诗); Epi. 68, Famous Ballerina and Coach from Guangzhou Ms. Cheung Dan Dan, and Epi. 72, Hong Kong's own Olympic Silver Medalists for Male Table Tennis (Doubles), Ko Lei Chak(高礼泽) and Li Ching(李静), thus showing her Hosting and Research skills at a multitude of topics.
External links
- Jacqueline Pang's Official Webpage on RTHK's site
- Jacqueline in a Biographical article from a popular HK Chinese Newspaper
- Jacqueline Pang's Chinese Biography in a Free Chinese Newspaper
- Jacqueline Pang Chinese Bio "My Wonderful World" (Pgs. 24-30 of the Book-section only) by a Popular Chinese Writer
- Jacqueline Pang's Hints & Tips on Voice Training for budding DJs.
NOTE: Links that lead to RTHK's Program archives are valid for one year from the date of Broadcast, after which might be removed by RTHK. (They may be available elsewhere as .MP3s with adverts removed).