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I am listening to RTHK Radio 1 in Hong Kong streaming and they just discussed Mr. Ching Cheong's press conference and so far he's thanking everyone for his release.

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They are playing part of his statement.

(I was translating real time with the feed, so not exact but very very close)

"After thanking everyone, I just want to say some simple things about my situation.

Number 1: I have never done anything to hurt the country or its security. I have no shame and regret, and I honestly say I deserved the out pouring of support by the public without shame in my heart.

I have never spied on China. I have never had any intentions of spying on my country. I have never intended to hurt the country's security. I have never touched any classified documents and never given classified information to Taiwan.

To me the country's security is very important to me personally. I take the idea of spying very seriously. It's not something I would consider. It is the complete opposite of my personal belief.

As I said in court. Since university graduation every major decision I have made is for the best of the country. When this situation happened, I first thought of what was important for this country's security before myself, my own safety. Which is why I handed over my computer. This showed I have nothing to hide and did not have any question and fear.

Glutter's Hong Kong.

Wah. www.8810903.com just announced that Edison Chen is going to quit the Entertainment "Circle." Poor guy. They are talking about it on RTHK Radio 1 as well. Maybe he will come to the US where people aren't so upset about grown people having sex..

I wonder what the whole statement is. They said he said he's really sorry for all the people who have hurt and that he is not a role model for the youth in HK.

Oh more importantly Mr. Ching Chong who was the HK journalist for Strait Times and was jailed for three years by the Chinese government will have a press conference in half an hour as well.

The radio hosts are saying that today there have been two really important press conference that can be summed up by a phrase. For Edison Chen, it's "Sorry" "Sorry to the family, Sorry to everyone" and for Mr. Ching Chong it's "Thank you." "Thank you for his family's support, the support of the city, and the government of HK helping his release, and the journalistic community for again, supporting his family and helping to secure his release.


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I just heard it. Mainly Edison apologized to the "ladies" (Not the best choice of word I don't think), and their family, his own mother and father, and the WHOLE of HK society because he feels it's led the society astray... (Actually I can promise that most people had a rollicking good time downloading the photos.) and he's sorry he was unable to live up to his role as a role model which is what is expected of him in the HK entertainment industry and he's made the decision to leave the HK entertainment "Circle" after fulfilling his obligations.

Which means he's heading this way to Hollywood. He can now be the Asian version of Paris Hilton! This town loves it!

Glutter's HK

I have been writing this extremely long winded post about the whole Edison affair. Anyway, still haven't finished, and as with all gossip, it keeps changing. Edison is in HK and will have a press conference at 3pm HK time. It's an hour to go from the time of me writing this..

Wah. I can't wait.

It's been a long time that there is some HK stuff that I can really get my teeth into.....

I miss home!

Okay. I decided I still have SO MUCH more to write about.. You know the police aspect, the censorship aspect, the fact people are being arrested in HK, Taiwan and China over this incident. I might as well split it in different sections. So I am posting the first part of the Edison Chen Writing as (1) which is mainly purely gossip...

Glutter's Hong Kong.

I admit it. For more than a week now, I have been obsessed with the "sexy photo gate" scandal of the pictorial renditions of Edison Chen's Sex Life. I have discussed it with my mother: "no mum, I really don't think you should look at the photos, they are really naughty."

My classmates: "I know you don't know who these people are, but it's HUGE! It's not like Paris Hilton at all, because they are already famous before they got naked! It's like Justin Timberlake's computer got hacked and in it was pictures of a Britney (who still claimed she was a virgin who happened to be dating his classmate), Cameron Diaz who happens to be married also to Justin's classmate, some retired star whose about to marry a really really rich man and a bunch of starlets with a underage girl whose uncle owns the record label, management company some of these women are in, plus he is a bona fide gangsta all at once!!"

My brother: "Yeah, they want to hack his hands of for $50, 000!!!" My brother replied, "That's rough, if I was him I would just say, "It's not my fault, they got naked themselves! He needs to stay here."

And one night, Pieter said, "I can't really believe you're sitting in bed surfing for porn and making me look at them."

"It's not porn." I replied, "Think, this girl who is sprawled naked and sucking, was representing your company over Chinese New Year before they pulled the ad! It won't be in the new employee Disney Magazine would it? Anyway they didn't make it for money, I mean it's not intended to entertain."

"Doesn't it tell you something?"

"Yeah, I shouldn't look at it. But I am just waiting for the next Kira installation coz maybe there will be pictures of Maggie Q!! That would make me happy."

"And why?"

"Coz she wasn't very nice to me once, so it would be funny... but really that was a long time ago, and she's really I am sure she is a very nice person now and we were all pretty immature, so really, no reason what so ever at all."

But yet, I can't help it. I am compulsively seeking more news, the next installment, more gossip. Is Cecilia and Nic really going to divorce? They have a baby! Is it true she was cheating on Nicolas Tse her soon-to-be-hubby in these photos? If she was why would she allow photos to be taken? His parents Tse Yin and Dicboli don't look too pleased in the photos. I am sure they thought all the scandal is over now he's married and has a kid. No more crashing one's Ferrari on garden road drunk, and then getting his driver to take the blame. How long did Nic end up in prison? Was it two months?

And what about poor Bobo, playing the smart not very talented actress card of nabbing a rich man. Is that done? Will Bobo's investment banker finance from a good family stand up to his mother and marry her anyway? After all those photos were taken before he met her but a man from such a family, really shouldn't have a wife where everyone has seen her bits especially only a few months before the wedding.

Who is this Mandy Chan person? I can't believe she's licking.. a plastic toy. Is that really Jody? She actually she seemed sweet. I actually fell for the facade!! And who are the other people, and how come some of the not-so-famous starlets all look so similar when they are naked. I can't tell one from the other! Thank god for Cecilia who seems to have a bit of personality! She looks great drunk and in a police uniform. Isn't it funny she's wearing that when her dad was in jail? Ah, mocking the profession.

Best of all... Gillian, the pleasure of seeing Gillian from the really truly deeply awful "Twins" in compromising positions after watching her blubbering over a magazine showing her back and a bit of her bra, saying "I don't know how to face the fans, the public. The idea that the image I tried so hard to create is shattered by these images taken without my knowledge." Oh, the pleasure of seeing a real hypocrite exposed. I always thought she over reacted with the hidden camera situation, considering absolutely nothing was shown, and now.. all she said was that she was "young and naive and have grown up now." Is that all she can muster? No tears, no overwrought emotion of being taken advantage of? No apologies for letting her fans "who are mostly school children and their mums" down? How come she could put on such a big act when she showed nothing and have such a reaction when everything is out?

So are the others terrible rumours about her true? Did she sleep with Albert Yeung (owner of Empire Entertainment Group and Edison's girlfriend's uncle) along with her bandmate to get the "Twins" contract? Does he "hire" them out for $10,000 a night to his friends? If she's not as innocent as she had made herself out to be, what else is she hiding? Could those vicious rumours be true? I never would have thought for one moment they were anything but cruel hearsay. And the ironic other rumour that has been proven to be untrue? Unlike what the message boards were saying. Gillian has never been a spokes person for abstinence of premarital sex, and she never turned up to any Christian Youth Rally.. at least that was confirmed..

That's just the women. What about Edison? How come he's such a stud? Do you think it's true about the rumours of him being cheated on when he was 15 and that's why he acts that way? Or do you think it's because his dad is purported to be gay that he needs to prove his masculinity? Really Edison, Edison Chen from HKIS? What did they see in him?

And now with this blowing up is his life really in danger? Was there really $50 000 bounty given for his hand? Left or right? Does it matter? And why not his face? Did he really threaten to commit suicide if his girlfriend Vinny didn't marry him? Did he slit his wrists? Did he do that, just so her uncle won't hurt him or stop the people who want to get him? I mean you can't hurt the Empire Entertainment group's president's niece's husband? He's powerful with the triads, he's powerful with the Chinese government. And who the hell told him to do that apology video in English?? Then put it on youtube? Did he honestly think that anyone would delete photos of naked women and him off their computers because he urged them to? Sadly the funniest "translation" video in youtube has been pulled probably because of the explicit language. Mainly it was him admitting, bragging and insulting the women who appeared in the photographs. If one makes a video of explanation and apology to scandal in a foreign language to most of it's spectators, you're asking for trouble.

But then sometimes I think he's been punished enough, when he's been pulled from Stephen Chow's highly awaited new film Jump, some of his credit card endorsement has been dropped a la Kate Moss. Levis and Pepsi is in the wings waiting to see what happens. And he thought maybe he would make it Hollywood? He is supposed to appear in the Dark Knight, the batman movie (which has it's own share of problems now Heath Ledger so tragically died), and now his name is all over the American gossip columns with no one knowing what the hell he does.. oh, wait, maybe there are some Paris Hilton parallels. Maybe this will be the thing that propels him to Hollywood. Maybe Maggie Q is regretting she didn't make a sex tape with him coz she might become a household name over here....hmmm...

Then there are rumours that the photos were taken for his boss so he could bribe them. Did he use these photos as a "casting couch" for unknown girls with promises of chances to be introduced to the right people? Was is true that he was already been blackmailed by these photographs last year, but didn't pay up because he figured the photos will be put out there regardless? And now the reason the photos are out and about is because one of the people who were blackmailing him has disappeared and as retaliation, the blackmailers have put the photos out.

Were those pix taken for himself or his boss? Why is Edison Chen asking for not only police protection, but a promise that he will not be charged? What has he done? Did he coerce any of these women or bribe them with the photos? Was his girlfriend Vincy really underage at the time...

To be Continued.......

A Hong Kong journalist who was jailed in mainland China on spying charges has been released after serving less than half a five-year sentence. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7227695.stm

Art

Have a look at the exhibition I just went to see.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2250654,00.html