Saturday February 16, 2008 Hong Kong HONG KONG media reports said gangsters are supposedly planning to teach Edison Chen a lesson or kill him over the celebrity sex-photo scandal. Chen, 27, is expected to return from the United States to Hong Kong and face the media on Sunday, said Mavis Leung, his spokesman, who declined to elaborate. Organised crime has long played an important role in Hong Kong's entertainment industry. The current scandal has led Hong Kong tabloids to run reports in the last several days of supposed plans by gangsters to 'teach a lesson' to Chen and perhaps even kill him. Chen's travel plans have been shrouded in secrecy, but Sudden Weekly said he may fly first to Japan, where he would board a Hong Kong-bound private plane owned by Media Asia studio head Peter Lam. Mr Lam, who is also the owner of Chen's management company, said it was up to the actor to decide whether to quit showbiz after the scandal. He described Chen as a 'kid' and urged the public to give him a chance to explain what had happened and let him 'get back on his feet again'. Sudden Weekly tabloid said the racy photo scandal is said to have started because the actor's businessman father was in debt. It said that after Chen took his laptop to be serviced in 2006, risque pictures that he allegedly took of women including Twins singer Gillian Chung and actress Cecilia Cheung had been passed around by insiders in the computer industry. But the photos did not become publicly available until they fell into the hands of his father's creditors and were leaked onto the Net, the report said. For the others involved in the photo scandal, the fall-out continues. Cheung's father-in-law, actor Patrick Tse, has denied the latest round of rumours that she has been kicked out of the Tse family. Chung, who apologised on Monday, will make her first TV appearance since the scandal on a charity show tomorrow. But a Twins concert scheduled for April has been postponed to September. Meanwhile, the charges against the first man arrested in connection with the scandal was released in court on Friday after the Obscene Articles Tribunal found that the photograph should have been classified as 'indecent' - a lesser offence. Chung Yik Tin, 29, who was accused of uploading a photograph showing someone resembling Chung, half naked and spreading her legs on a bed, was initially charged and refused bail for publishing an obscene photograph. Police have arrested nine people in connection with photographs and videos on the Internet over the last two weeks. Three suspects have been formally charged, including a 24-year-old man in Kowloon who was charged on Tuesday with publishing obscene materials. after he was said to have posted 100 photos. He did not enter a plea and was freed on bail of HK$10,000. Some Web users in Hong Kong see the police action as an infringement on individual freedoms. They held a protest last Sunday, arguing, among other things, that Hong Kong's anti-pornography ordinance is too broad and too vague, and that this is a case of unequal treatment. 'On the Internet there are a lot of nude pictures and sexy photos, but the police don't bring charges' except in the current case involving the singers,' said Oiwan Lam, a local blogger who participated in the demonstration and edits inmediahk.net, a citizen-reporter Web site. HK star Edison Chen in suicide bid claim HONG KONG heartthrob Edison Chen has reportedly attempted suicide after partially nude images of him with several starlets started circulating in the Internet, The Star reported on Tuesday. In a scandal that has dominated Hong Kong headlines last week, at least 10 suggestive photos posted online seemed to show Chen, singer-actress Gillian Chung, former actress-singer Bobo Chan and actress Cecilia Cheung. The images are believed to have been copied from Chen's computer when it was serviced at Elite Multi Media Shop in the Central district. China Press said on Monday that the singer-actor became depressed over the issue and avoided food lately. He had also reportedly confined himself to his home in the United States, where he fled to after the controversy erupted. The daily said Chen's image hit rock bottom after the scandal came to light. Several companies which had sought Chen's endorsement for their products have also terminated their contracts with the star. Chen had apologised, calling the postings of the photographs 'intentionally hurtful and malicious'. In a one-minute video statement released to the media through a law firm, the 27-year old urged all who were still in possession of the images to destroy them immediately. Police arrested six men and two women over the case last week. A 23-year old man was charged last Tuesday with acessing a computer with criminal or dishonest intent in 2006, said Sing Tao Daily. But he denied he was the source of the photos. He was released on bail of HK$50,000 (S$9,000) and will go on trial on Feb 22. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. -- ANN credits: af.
OMFG Honestly who the fuck hires these shit ass writers. My 5 year old cousin could do a better job than these idiots. ALL OF HONG KONG IS MADE OF FAIL! FUCK!
gansters dun go out and tell the press their intentions do they... so this may just be rumors and wat not... but it still wouldnt surprise me... maybe one of the chick ed nailed is now pissed and hired some muscles
somehow I agree that Edison deserve a lesson. Maybe it is good to let any other artist that might had done the same thing to more carefull
edc's attempt suicide .. hmmmm .. his father is in debt .. hmm .. that's very funny. if anything, i think the hong kong police has played the most stupiest role in this scandal; arresting all those people. it's more than obvious that the police force has wasted people tax money for such pathetic case. i really question about the hong kong police management; of course, most policemen don't have much education anyway.
Oh Come on... Why would HK gangs wanna kill Edison or even beat him up? Well, maybe unless they're some Twins fan or very friends with Nicholas Tse, they have better things to do. Plus, if they are connected with the entertainment industry, they must be happy with all the profits they are doing with the mags sell. :/
yea if money is involed... like 30,000 for hand. 100, 000 for arm, 1,000,000 for a small penis, etc -lol maybe they want fame, or the girls chipped in to git edc
all i know is that it'll be fun to see what happens when edison touches down in HK. Then the real party will begin.
dam either way its gonna be a good show ,heard he canceled and is in VANCOUVER now, edison proposed to VINCY?
didn't edc cancel his flight. lol. i think he should just lay low for a while and when it all blows over he can then come back.
