Edison Chen’s family man image now in jeopardy

Compiled by C. ARUNO, XIAO TONG and R. ARAVINTHAN

HONG KONG actor Edison Chen’s (pic) carefully curated image as a doting father and partner is now in jeopardy after a series of screenshots were leaked, allegedly showing him attempting to hook up with a woman, Sin Chew Daily reported.

Chen, 40, gained infamy in 2008 when intimate photos of him with celebrities such as Gillian Chung and Cecilia Cheung were leaked to the public.

It took nearly a decade for him to turn his image around.

Recently, screenshots of alleged conversations between a woman and Chen dating back to November 2016 and January 2017 had surfaced.

Apparently, it showed him propositioning a woman.

The woman later revealed that she contacted Chen on social media on a whim and did not expect him to reply.

She said she was surprised that the chat became sexually explicit, adding that she rejected Chen’s advances twice.

Netizens point out that the dates in which the alleged conversations took place coincided with the period in which Chen’s partner, actress Qin Shupei, was pregnant.

> The body of Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho has finally been laid to rest, one year after passing away in 2020, Oriental Daily reported.

He was buried at Chiu Yuen Cemetery in Hong Kong on May 30 after being kept at the Tung Wah Coffin Home since his funeral on July 10 last year.

According to the Hong Kong press, the burial date was an auspicious one that was chosen after consulting a well-known feng shui master.

His four sons Arnaldo Ho Yau-heng, Mario Ho Yau-kwan, Orlando Ho Yau-kai and Lawrence Ho Yau-lung were present to pay their final respects to their father, who died of organ failure at the age of 98 on

May 26 last year.

Stanley was known as Macau’s richest man with a net worth of HK$70bil (about RM37bil). He was the sole casino operator there for decades before other companies were granted licences in 2002.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.