SECRET SALARIES OF THE SINO STARS

A Guangzhou communications company received so many emails from clients asking how much it would cost to get celebrity X to be an "image ambassador" for product Y, or to do a public performance, that they just pasted all the salaries up on their website for the world to see. Here are the big names and what they make (loosely converted into US currency because I'm a nationalist snob):

PUBLIC PERFORMANCE
Jay Chou - US$123,700
Nicholas Tse – US$80,000
Leon Lai – US$80,438 (you're getting old, Leon)
Cecilia Cheung – US$65,588 (a bargain at twice the price)
Vicky Zhao Wei – US$43,313

IMAGE AMBASSADOR
Chow Yun-fat – US$1.54 million for two years
Jacky Cheung–US$644,000 for one year
Andy Lau –US$1.03 million for two years

You can read the nearly-complete salary listings here.