Fans in China praying for Lee’s speedy recovery


Ardent fan: Liu posing with a poster of ‘Lee Chong Wei: Rise of the Legend’ in Beijing, China.

BEIJING: China moviegoers not only came away impressed with Lee Chong Wei: Rise of the Legend but in awe of the biopic of a Malaysian small-town boy who rose to become the world No.1 shuttler.

Not surprisingly, when news broke yesterday of Datuk Lee Chong Wei undergoing treatment for cancer, it got many of his Chinese fans going on the popular Weibo, China’s Twitter-like platform, to express their wishes for his recovery.

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