A whole lot of Fan in Melaka

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Popular Chinese actress Fan Bingbing officially started her first day as the Visit Melaka 2024 (TMM2024) ambassador by wooing hundreds of her fans who made a beeline to get a glimpse of her at the iconic Stadthuys building in Bandar Hilir, Melaka on Friday (June 14).   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/34mmj8je  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Popular Chinese actress Fan Bingbing began her role as the Visit Melaka 2024

00:07TMM 2024 ambassador by engaging hundreds of fans in Bandar Hilir on Friday.

00:13Clad in a nyonya kebaya, Fan is scheduled for a series of meet-and-greet sessions and visits

00:18to tourism and heritage sites from Friday to Sunday. She also attended an afternoon tea

00:24ceremony with His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, in conjunction with His Majesty's

00:29two-day visit to Melaka. Earlier, Fan made a courtesy call to Melaka Chief Minister Datuk

00:34Seri Ap Rauf Yusof at his office in Seri Negeri, Ayer Kero. Ap Rauf highlighted Fan's potential

00:40to boost Melaka tourism, given her popularity with 63 million followers on Weibo. Fan expressed

00:47her commitment to promoting Melaka as a major tourist destination for Chinese visitors,

00:51considering the historical ties between Melaka and China dating back to Admiral Cheng Ho's voyages.

00:58Fan is renowned as a global representative of Chinese culture. In addition to her roles in

01:02Chinese films, she has starred in the Hollywood superhero film X-Men Days of Future Past,

01:07as well as French and Korean movies. In 2014, she was inducted into the Barbie Global Celebrity

01:13Hall of Fame, becoming China's first Barbie doll. She appeared on Vanity Fair's Best Dressed list

01:19in 2015 and 2016, and graced the cover of Time magazine in 2017,

01:25being named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People.

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