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unusual facts about Lau



Alifereti Finau Ulugalala

In 1898 with the death of Roko Eroni Loganimoce, Ratu Penaia Kadavulevu, Vunivalu of Bau, went to Lau and made Finau Sau ni Vanua and Tui Nayau ahead of Ratu Salesi Kinikinilau (Roko Eroni's son and Finau's rival for the title).

Assembleia de freguesia

The assembleia de freguesia (parish assembly) is the legislature of a freguesia, the local administrative unit LAU 2 of Portugal.

Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper

It is directed by William Lau and stars the voice of Kelly Sheridan, who has been voicing Barbie in all the CGI films to date, as both Anneliese and Erika.

Blue-crowned Lorikeet

The Blue-crowned Lorikeet (Vini australis) is a parrot found throughout the Samoa and Tonga islands and Lau archipelago, including: ʻAlofi, Fotuhaʻa, Fulago, Futuna, Haʻafeva, Niuafoʻou, Moce, Niuē, Ofu, Olosega, Sāmoa, Savaiʻi, Tafahi, Taʻu, Tofua, Tonga, Tungua, ʻUiha, ʻUpolu, Varoa, Vavaʻu, and Voleva.

Chuck Billy 'n' Folks

Lau (Nhô Lau) - Mr. Lau owns an orchard filled with Apple Guavas, which are frequently "visited" by Chuck and his friends, who steal his fruits.

City Kids

City Kids 1989, a 1989 Hong Kong film directed by Poon Man-kit and starring Andy Lau

Cypher Zero

2005 - Nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award for Ellen Stewart's play Perseus at La MaMa, E.T.C., Honoree for Outstanding Choreography/Movement, along with Renaurd Gee, Maureen Fleming, Juliana Lau, Frederico Restrepo and Chris Wild.

Cyril Takayama

On August 26, 2012, Cyril and Hong Kong movie star Andy Lau performed an illusion at the Miss Hong Kong Pageant 2012.

Duress in English law

In Pao On v Lau Yiu Long the Pao family threatened to not complete a share swap deal aimed at purchasing their company's building unless the Lau family agreed to change a guarantee agreement assuring the Paos would receive the rise in the swapped shares' prices when repurchased.

East Week

With a new design and layout, the first issue of the revived magazine on 3 September 2003 featured Carina Lau, the actress of former controversy, in a discussion of her new movie, Infernal Affairs II, and Anita Mui, in discussion of her seeking a famous oncologist.

Eat a Bowl of Tea

Due to immigration laws, Lau Shee continues to live in Sunwei, China, busying herself with Christianity and fussing over her husband and son although they are many miles away.

Edelweiss Cheung

Edelweiss was not invited to present at Miss Hong Kong Pageant 2009 and crown her successor Sandy Lau, Miss Hong Kong 2009, instead TVB invited Miss Hong Kong 1977 Ms Loletta Chu to crown for Lau.

Escape from Hong Kong Island

However, it cultivated an arrogant and heartless sociopathic vain attitude in him: he even spat in a "blind" beggar's money pot (Tats Lau), and has neglected his family who were reduced to substandard impoverished living.

Evelyn Lau

The film The Diary of Evelyn Lau (1993) starred Korean-Canadian actress Sandra Oh.

Fiji during the time of Cakobau

He faced opposition, however, from local chiefs who saw him at best as first among equals, and also from the Tongan Prince Enele Ma'afu, who had established himself on the Island of Lakeba in the Lau archipelago in 1848.

Fo Tan Station

Fo Tan Railway House (formerly called KCRC House), MTR Ho Tung Lau Maintenance Centre and Depot, Jubilee Garden, Jubilee Court, IVE (Sha Tin), Hong Kong Sports Institute, Jockey Club Ti-I College, a bus stop, a minibus stop, a taxi stand, Lok King Street, Tai Po Road

Forget Him

Also, Hong Kong pop star Jacky Cheung sung an unrelated song called "Forget Him" (1993), lyricized by Lau Jok-Fai (劉卓輝) and composed by John Laudon (劉諾生), recorded on one of his Cantonese albums, Me and You (我與你) (1993).

Gordon Lau

Much like his colleague Milk, who had been an important activist for the LGBT community of San Francisco, Lau was an activist for the city's Asian American community.

Infernal Affairs III

Before the picture fades into the next scene, the camera pans down onto Lau's fingers tapping out in Morse code, "H-E-L..." (and then the start of another 'L' as the picture dims).

Jake Ogden

Ogden also studied Judo, Kick boxing, Thai boxing, Mauy Thai, Lau Gar Kung Fu, Shotokan Karate, Wado-Ryu Karate, Aikido, Taekwondo and Wing Chun Kung Fu and holds Black Belts/Sashes in Jado Kuin Do Kung Fu, Wing Chun Kung Fu Kickboxing, Karate, Thai boxing and Taekwondo.

Jean Marie du Lau

After studies at the Collège de Navarre, Lau gained a Licentiate of Theology at the Sorbonne and then embarked on his ecclesiastical career, aided by his uncle, the Abbé Jean du Lau, parish priest of the Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris since 1750.

Kadavu Province

Kadavu Province is one of fourteen provinces of Fiji, and forms part of the Eastern Division, which also includes the provinces of Lau, Lomaiviti and Rotuma.

Kennedy Fried Chicken

Zia, an Afghan immigrant originally from Kabul, Afghanistan, is known by some as Zia Chicken or "Lau Chicken" and is regarded as the father of Kennedy Fried Chicken.

Kinetic Records

Kinetic Records was a New York City-based record label founded by Steve Lau (founding member of Sire Records act the Ocean Blue), that launched the careers of artists and DJs such as Paul Oakenfold, BT, Ray Munns, Deepsky, Kosheen, Tilt, Timo Maas, Grace, Sandra Collins, Billy Thermal, Binary Finary, and Shpongle.

Kwa Geok Choo

She had three sisters, Mrs Cheah, who was a teacher at Methodist Girls School; Mrs. Yong Nyuk Lin (wife of retired cabinet minister Yong Nyuk Lin); and the late Mrs. Earnest Lau, who was also for a time a teacher at Methodist Girls School.

Lau Cheuk Hin

In January 2011, while playing amateur football for Sham Shui Po, through the Nike The Chance programme, Lau Cheuk Hin won a place along with 3 other young Chinese footballers in Shanghai, China to fly to the United Kingdom and compete among the 100 players from all over the world, for the 8 available places to train there.

Lomaloma

Lau Islands, Fiji By A.M Hocart, Published by the Bishop Museum, Hawaii (1929) reference to Ratu Keni Naulumatua as Rasau of Lomaloma and details on his title.

Michael Lau

While some of his art was on display in Lau worked with the Hong Kong hip-hop group LMF, creating a series of figures based on them.

Mohammed Haddad

(Participated in the 5th International University Theatre Arts Festival, with music composition and arrangement for the original songs Voyaging Amulet, Land of prophets and Piano Nocturne Friend of the moon, Lebanese American University LAU) - Beirut.

Parish Assembly

Assembleia de freguesia, the assembly of LAU 2 local government in Portugal

Patrick Lau Hing Tat

Patrick Lau graduated from the University of Toronto in 1983 with a degree in landscape architecture; he also completed graduate school in 1989 at the University of Hong Kong with a degree in urban design.

Ready for the Times to Get Better

It was also rendered into the Cantonese-language song "Mayflower" (五月荷花) by Agnes Chan in her 1980 album Ching Kip, San Sing, Lau Long Hak (情劫·晨星·流浪客).

Reginald de Veulle

de Veulle also hosted orgies at his Mayfair flat where cocaine and opium (cooked up by Ada Lau Ping) were freely available.

Rotman School of Management

The founding G7 fellows group includes; Daniel Debow, Dennis Bennie, Dan Shimmerman, Nigel Stokes, Lee Lau, Tomi Poutanen, and Nick Koudas.

Sing Pao Daily News

Near the end of the Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 2012, Johnny Lau Yui-siu (劉銳紹), a pundit who wrote a critique of both Henry Tang and Leung Chun-ying for the Sing Pao Daily News, complained that the journal of "unfairly editing and distorting his column", turning his article into one favouring Leung.

Southern Shaolin Monastery

In these accounts with the Southern temple destroyed there remained just the Five Elders to continue the traditions of the Southern temple, and as the elders fled and dispersed throughout Southern China they established the lineages that gave rise to the Hung, Lau, Choi, Lee, Mok and Wing Chun styles and those styles that derive from them such as Cai Li Fo.

Tania Gunadi

She is best known for her series regular role as Emma Lau on the Disney XD series Aaron Stone (2010), as Miko Nakadai on the Hub series Transformers Prime (2012) and the YouTube show (2012), MyMusic.

The Broken Family Band

After appearing on a bill with The Walkmen, they were signed to indie label Snowstorm, for which they recorded one mini album ‘The King Will Build A Disco’ and their first full length album ‘Cold Water Songs’, both of which featured guest appearances from Samantha Parton from The Be Good Tanyas, Martin Green from Lau, Inge Thomson from Harem Scarem and Owen Turner from Magoo.

Thé Lau

In 2010, Thé Lau topped the Dutch charts in a collaboration with Dutch rapper Lange Frans in the "Zing voor me".

In 2007 his work has appeared in 1000 vissen, a collection of stories about the Amsterdam's neighborhood Spaarndammerbuurt where Thé Lau had been living and working for 15 years.

Timoci Tuivaga

Tuivaga, who hails from the village of Yaroi on Matuku Island, in the Lau archipelago, is the son of Isimeili Siga Tuivaga and Jessie Hill.

Tui Cakau

This lasted only until 1867, when the Confederacy was split into two units, the Kingdom of Bau (ruled by Cakobau) and the Confederation of Lau (consisting of the present-day provinces of Cakaudrove, Bua, and Lau).

Vijay R. Singh

In the 1966 election, he was elected to the Legislative Council from the East-Central cross-voting seat which covered Vanua Levu and Lau.

Warlords

The Warlords, a 2007 Chinese/Hong Kong film starring Andy Lau, Jet Li and Takeshi Kaneshiro

William Lau Hui Lay

As the founder and principal partner of A.Alliance Design International which is an international multi-disciplinary consultancy practice in Master Planning, Architecture & Interior Design and Project Management, Lau believes in designs that harmonize with humanity and its environment.


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