Hong Kong movie queen Li Ching found dead in flat

Left: Li seen in 2012. She is said to have been mired in gambling debts and money problems in her later years. Right: Li was one of the hottest stars in the 60s and 70s.

HONG KONG: Li Ching, the baby-faced actress who was one of Hong Kong's biggest movie stars in the 1960s and 1970s, has died aged 69, media reports said.

Li was found slumped in her rented apartment in the Quarry Bay district in Hong Kong on Thursday.