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
Read more at https://tinyurl.com/34mmj8je
WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news
SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar
LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline
Category
đź—ž
NewsTranscript
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.