Woah, YKT inundated my inbox with emails!  First up thanks YKT for sharing the news with us!  Here it is by the numbers:

1) Bei Ruo Yi of crystalliuyifei.com posted:

"In case you missed it, you can watch Liu Yifei at the premiere of "The Forbidden Kingdom" in Beijing on April 16, 2008 here: ent.sina.com.cn"

2) Wan Mei wrote:

"Culture Express is an English-language program broadcast on the Chinese Government's state television channel CCTV-9. On 5/5/2008 it showcase a 3 minutes 51 seconds video introducing "Xiaolongnv" Liu Yifei to the world. CCTV-9 can be viewed through a number of cable and satellite providers in the world. For example, it is available as Channel 509 on ASTRO Malaysia. This video can also be access on the Web through this link: cctv.com. At date of writing, this is one of the most watched video of the day on the CCTV website."

3) Wan Mei declares that Liu Yifei is "No#1 in IMDb for Most Popular With Fewer Than 5 roles:"

"This was reported by WCC Daily, a newspaper in Western China. I can confirmed this since I have a IMDB Professional Account but I didn't held it too much regard before. For those who don't know, this refer to the StarMeter rating, a feature only viewable by Internet Movie Database Movie Pro members. The Most Popular With Fewer than 5 roles is slightly misinformed because Yifei has starred in more than 5 roles but information in IMDB is not up to date. However, it does bestow Yifei the distinction of being the first Asian female to achieve the Rank of #1 in a IMDB Pro category More useful, but of no lasting value is her current weekly Star Meter rating = 107 or the highest ranked Chinese female artist in the World (according to IMDB Pro) for the past week in Star Meter Ranking."

4)  Wan Mei wrote:

"Lookout for Yifei as a special guest in the CZTV special “Thoughts on Journey to West characters” for the Journey to the West 2009 TV series on this May or June 2008. The producer of JTTW is Zhang Jizhong (ROCH 2006). Following the success of the Journey to the West themed Forbidden Kingdom, Zhang is now in preliminary discussion with the Weta Group (LOTR, Narnia) on employing Weta's fantasy skills for the upcoming TV series. “Thoughts on Journey to West characters” will be broadcast for 8 weeks each Saturday on CZTV from May 10, 2008. Each show has a running time of 40 minutes and will featured a celebrity invited by Zhang Jizhong. The May 10 session will feature Huang Xiaoming as the special guest and focus on the character of Monkey. Like other celebrities in this show, Yifei will present her insight and character analysis on one of the yet undisclosed major characters in Journey to the West. It is generally believed that Yifei would be offered a cameo role in JTTW 2009. Latest update: The first session of JTTW talk-show, on the character of Monkey has been recorded today. It will be broadcast by CZTV at 9pm, May 10."  

Thanks again to YKT for sharing Wan Mei's brilliant ''scoops'' and world exclusives as well as a post by Bei Ruo Yi of crystalliuyifei.com.

JC@crystal-liuyifei.com