Lin Chiling | 林志玲| Lin Zhi Ling | Chiling Lin

A cheerful Taiwanese star met the media in Paris recently as the Asia-Pacific ambassador for watchmaker Longines. IT’S the smile that gets you. Much has been written about Taiwan star Lin Chiling. She’s tall (that she is, at 174cm), she’s beautiful, classy and she has long, long, long legs. But she also has that smile ... radiant, friendly, sympathetic, kind – and elegant. It’s a smile that says many things. And it almost never wears off. For some six hours in Paris, she wore that smile. And it was just so – the near-perfect teeth showing just that much. Even when she had her mouth closed, she had that smile. How does Chiling – the one they call “the smiling baby” back home in Taiwan – manage it? ”I’m really a cheerful person,” she says in the rather relaxed atmosphere of the Longines hospitality suite at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, venue of the recently concluded French Open tennis tournament. “And I think positive thoughts.” Read more here: http://z3.invisionfree.com/Love_Chili

Taipei - Taiwan's largest bus company is teaching its drivers how to flash the best smile to welcome Chinese tourists, a cable TV channel reported Friday. The Taiwan Motor Transport Co, which operates long-distance buses across the island, has launched a 'Learn to Smile' campaign to prepare its several hundred bus drivers for the influx of Chinese tourists, CTI TV reported. Using a poster showing the face of Taiwan's top female model Lin Chih-ling, the company is asking its bus drivers to imitate Lin's trademark smile - which shows her white teeth - to make Chinese tourists feel welcome. read more here

Top Chinese-language stars stage show in Hong Kong to raise funds ... International Herald Tribune - France Also attending were Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou, model Lin Chi-ling and actress Shu Qi, and mainland Chinese actors Zhou Xun and Hu Jun and singer Zhang ... read more here Stars hit a $35m high note Carol Chung Monday, June 02, 2008 The chatter and noise of 10,000 people expecting a feast of stars and songs at the Pop TV arena in West Kowloon came to a sudden silence at 2.28pm yesterday the exact time of the deadly May 12 Sichuan earthquake. After the one-minute silence, it was nothing but songs from 400 Hong Kong, mainland and Taiwan mega-stars and singers. Though spectators paid a gate price of HK$20, donations at the last count climbed to HK$35 million through phone pledges and text messages. The line-up included action hero Jackie Chan Kong-sang and Cantopop icons Andy Lau Tak-wah, Jacky Cheung Hok-yau, Leon Lai Ming, Eason Chan Yik-shun and Sammi Cheng Sau-man.