He was elected governor in the 2010 local elections as an independent after two previous unsuccessful attempts.
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In the 2010 local elections, Kim won an upset victory in the South Gyeongsang gubernatorial election as an independent candidate, and took office as governor on 1 July 2010.
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As Gary Chaw (曹格), one of the hosts in “The Voice” singing contest, commented Alfred Hui’s appearance as similar to a Taiwanese star called Wu Chun (吳尊), Alfred was then honored as “Wu Chun from Tseung Kwan O” (將軍澳吳尊).
To add to the insult, Drew's teacher Master Kwan (Kim Chan) confesses that he is not—as he had claimed—a Shaolin monk, and therefore he had not passed on the actual knowledge of Shaolin kung fu to Drew.
She is perhaps best known for her roles as Mrs. DePaulo in That's So Raven, Mrs. Kwan in The Cat in the Hat, Sue in 50 First Dates, Miss Hyo-Kim in Next Friday, Yung-Hee "Grandma" Kim on All-American Girl through more of a cult status, and the voice of Jasmine "Ah-Mah" Lee on The Life and Times of Juniper Lee.
Members were politically active, protesting an MSNBC headline for the 1998 Winter Olympics reading "American beats out Kwan", referring to U.S. Olympic teammates Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan.
Kwan left the group in 2005, and was replaced with Dennis Mak in 2005.
When Sing's girlfriend Judy (Joey Meng) learns that Chun sent his top henchmen Ma Wong (Frankie Ng) and Fa Fot (Lung Fong) to kidnap Fei Lung's wife Daisy (Suki Kwan), Judy immediately informs Daisy; while on the other hand, Loan Shark Ko has captured Lung's mother to threaten Lung to surrender and Chun unexpectedly arrives and kills Ko while trapping Lung, his mother and son in a farm.
After returning from a short training period with mainland Chinese side Guangzhou R&F, Chan Siu Kwan returned to Hong Kong and joined Yokohama FC Hong Kong in summer of 2012.
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Chan Siu Kwan's father Chan Pak Hung was the Hong Kong Jockey Champions in the 1986/1987 racing season and now works as a horse trainer for the Macau Jockey Club.
Kwan-Gett was born as Clifford Gett in 1934 in Emmaville, New South Wales, a small tin mining town in the Australian bush.
Suh Chong Kang created Kuk Mu Kwan School, and other instructors started to hardly recognize Duk Sung Son as a school official.
Edward B. Sell, founder of the United States Chung Do Kwan Association
Kwan began her acting career after high school at ATV from 1988 to 1993.
Mang Lai-kwan's (Michelle Ye) father Mang Si-yuen (Lo Hoi Pang) was a royal doctor for the previous dynasty and a learned man, but he is set in his ways and believes that women should not be educated.
It was developed in 2010 by Matthew Kwan, a PhD Candidate at the RMIT School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences and should not be confused with the Open GeoSMS standard.
A guandao, kwan dao, or kuan tao is a type of Chinese pole weapon that is used in some forms of Chinese martial arts.
The first debate was held on 1 March 2007, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (香港會議展覽中心) from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm, presided by Rita Fan (范徐麗泰); the second 90-minute debate was held on 15 March 2007 at the TVB City in Tseung Kwan O, co-organized by the 8 main media corporations in Hong Kong.
The seventh child of the family, Kwan was born 1933 in Kluang, Johor, Malaysia.
In 1980, Kwan and collaborator Dennis Ladd followed Keola Beamer, who in 1973 had published the first how-to book for the tradition (First Method for Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar) by producing Slack Key Instruction Book, which presents ten of Kwan's compositions and arrangements in a range of tunings, in standard notation and tablature, with performance notes and photographs of correct left-hand positions for the chords.
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By 1980, ill health forced Kwan to retire from active gigging, but in the late 1980s George Winston persuaded Kwan to record again for his Dancing Cat label.
It was designed by the architect and artist Chen Chi-Kwan in collaboration with the firm of noted architect I. M. Pei, and named in honor of the Rev. Henry W. Luce, an American missionary in China in the late 19th century and father of publisher Henry Luce.
Ltd, he was the first chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital's and the Po Leung Kuk (Society for the Protection of Women and Children).
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However, by the early 1990s and after Ngan Shing-kwan's retirement from day-to-day operations, that the Company began to fall behind its competitors Citybus and Kowloon Motor Bus.
This kind of design can be seen in other subway stations built during this period like the Shenzhen Metro and Hong Kong MTR's Tseung Kwan O line.
He is married to Karen Kwan, sister of world champion figure skater Michelle Kwan, and they have 2 daughters, Olivia Colett Oppegard and Sophia Oppegard.
Providence Zen Center, the international headquarters for the Kwan Um School of Zen
Guan, a Chinese family name rendered in Cantonese as Kwan, or also in English as Quan or Quon.
The Hundred Secret Senses is a 1995 novel by Amy Tan, focusing on the relationship between Chinese-born Kwan and her younger, Chinese American sister Olivia, who serves as the book's primary narrator.
Sun Hung Kai Properties is building a 350-room Crowne Plaza hotel, a 176 room Vega Suites hotel and a 300 room Holiday Inn hotel at Tseung Kwan O Station as parts of a comprehensive hotel and shopping complex.
A stone memorial was erected to Hillier and to a British military officer at Shan-hai-Kwan to recognise the protection afforded to Chinese during the times following the Boxer Rebellion.
Starting in 1954, many Korean artists made this trip including Nam Kwan, Kim Heung-su, and Kim Chong-ha.
Suh Chong Kang (Founder of the KuK Mu Kwan School - aligned with the International Taekwon-Do Federation ) Won Kuk Lee awards him the 10th degree black belt during the decade of 2000.
The Executive Steering Committee consists of Alec Arho Havrén, Sari Arho Havrén, Anna Hrdlicka, Bishop Lennart Koskinen, Alfred Kwok, Tomas Otterström, Marianne Samuelsson, Jenny Harler, Professor Derek Shearer, Professor Kai Wartiainen, Professor Dr Po Chi Wu, Pasi Rutanen, Carola Wictorsson, Doris Kwan, and Charles Gloor.