The Good And Bad News about Gillian Chung!

Hong Kong publisher Next Media, best known for its aggressive and flamboyant reporting styles and paparazzi-style photographs, has been slapped with a HK$175,000 (US$22,600) fine for indecency.

The fine was issued by a Hong Kong court after it found seven cases of indecent photographs published in the company’s magazine. Among them were pictures of pop singer Gillian Chung.

Chung, one half of pop double act Twins, was snapped while changing backstage at a concert in Kuala Lumpur in 2006.

That provoked record numbers of public complaints to Hong Kong's Television & Entertainment Licensing Authority. Canto-pop star Jackie Chan and other celebs also petitioned for tighter rules on paparazzi-style photography.

Next Media's "Easy Finder" magazine which was responsible for publishing the photos, has since been forced to close down.

Gillian Chung to return with new tv series

A still of the TV series "The Spirit of the Sword" featuring Gillian Chung (R) and Nicholas Tse, released on Saturday, August 16, 2008.
Hong Kong singer and actress Gillian Chung, half of the Hong Kong pop duo Twins, will return to the public limelight with a new TV series.

the TV series "The Spirit of the Sword", featuring Gillian Chung and Hong Kong singer and actor Nicholas Tse, will be broadcast in Hong Kong on August 25.

Chung's career has been on hold for half a year after a nude photo scandal earlier this year.

Elva Hsiao Jolin Tsai

Two Taiwan female artists pledged to offer 25 million yuan (US$3.5 million) each to any one who can prove their involvement in the nude picture scandal that shows singer and actor Edison Chen in sexual poses with a dozen women in bed.

Jolin Tsai and Elva Hsiao, two singers who were rumored to have relationships with Chen, 27, both issued statements through their agent companies on Wednesday, saying any one who can come up with their pictures with Chen in bed can get the reward if courts prove the pictures are real, Sina.com.cn reported.

The nude picture scandal has shocked the world's Chinese-speaking community after more than 800 photographs have been circulated on the Internet since late January.

The pictures so far have embroiled seven female celebrities, including Gillian Chung of the female duo Twins and actress Cecilia Cheung.

Hong Kong police so far have found nearly 10,000 racy photos after they seized computer-related items and a laptop belonging to Chen last Friday, the report said.

Five more female celebrities were said to have been in the photographs, raising rumors that Tsai and Hsiao may be on the list, the report said.

"The rumors have hurt not only me, but my family and friends as well," Tsai said in her statement, stressing that she had nothing to do with the scandal.

The 28-year-old singer said her agent company will demand "unlimited" compensation if any media group reports Tsai's rumored connection with the scandal that "damages" her, the report said.

Hsiao also said she was never in a relationship with Chen and asked the public to stop "meaningless talk" about her role in the scandal, the report said.

Chen has already asked Hong Kong Customs to protect his copyright on the nude pictures and warned against any copyright infringement of the photographs.

The Canadian-born Chinese told more than 300 reporters at a news conference last Thursday that he decided to quit the Hong Kong entertainment industry after he finishes current projects. He also said he was "sorry to the women and their families" involved in the scandal and hoped he could receive "the public's forgiveness" and "a new chance."

According to Armorize Technologies, fraud groups (or organized crimes) recently renewed their crime ways on phishing tools especially using pseudonyms as "Edison's photos" by web-phishing, e-mail hacking, and peer-to-peer file transferring. Even though Google will notice those phishing sites as danger sites who will damage a user's computer, but its virus wasn't still found and scanned by several anti-virus software especially Norton AntiVirus, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Trend Micro Internet Security, and NOD32.

Also in this conference, Armorize announced some statistics after a special experiment with their software HackAlert:
If an Internet user linked to a phishing site, set by a fraud group, a malicious software, which can't be found and scanned by any anti-virus software, will be downloaded into a user's computer silently. The software will steal several private data, collect several information on user's software, and attack other unharmed websites. And according to a statistic with Internet users' habit, it evidently exposed a major problem on bad habits especially using P2P software when connecting to Internet.

Even though Edison Chen claimed to quit the entertainment industry in Hong Kong, but the (photo) scandal showed another crisis on information security world-wide including Taiwan.

Sex Photo - Make Hong Kong Hot in cyber space!!

A series of Hong Kong-oriented nude photo scandals involving numerous celebrities there heated up the Internet news here last week. The scandal was the third most viewed news item on Naver's most searched list last week.
On Jan. 30, local media reported several photographs purportedly showing sexual relations between Hong Kong actor Chen Kwoon Hei, 29, more widely known by his English name Edison Chen, and pop singer Gillian Chung, 28, were leaked to the Internet and rapidly reproduced throughout cyber space.
According to Hong Kong's Ming Pao newspaper, the pictures were copied from the actor's faulty computer last year when he took it in for servicing.
``A person in the shop found hidden in files in Chen's computer, confidential nude pictures of naked female stars, which were then secretly copied,'' Ming Pao reported, quoting an anonymous source.
At first the two entertainers denied the allegation, saying, ``They are doctored photographs.''
Despite their denial, hundreds of explicit pictures were posted online, cornering the actor and starlets he appeared with.
According to Hong Kong police, a total of nine female celebrities including several world-class actresses such as Cecilia Cheung, Gillian Chung and Bobo Chan had sexual relations with the actor.
The computer shop was subsequently raided by police in a widening investigation across the territory, which has led to eight arrests for infringing the obscene material law, and the seizure of hundreds of other explicit images, many unpublished.
Following the leakage, actress Cecilia Cheung and husband Nicholas Tse now live separately and Bobo Chan broke off an engagement with her fiance. Gillian Chung reportedly attempted suicide but failed.
According to Hong Kong's Apple Daily, the disgraced actor Edison Chen who is now staying in Boston with his girlfriend will return to Hong Kong on Sunday to be questioned by police.
A major suspect who was arrested on suspicion of spreading the nude photos online was released recently, according to Apple Daily on Feb. 16.

A scandal over racy pictures in Hong Kong proves that obscenity laws are ineffective In June 2007, according to media reports, a Hong Kong actor and singer named Edison Chen took his pink Apple Powerbook laptop into a Central district computer shop called eLite Media to be repaired and inadvertently set off a firestorm that has rippled across the city into China and well beyond.
What happened next has demonstrated beyond any doubt the complete inability of anything besides a society as closed as Burma to police the Internet, and rendered Hong Kong’s colonial-era obscenity laws irrelevant, as well as raising questions over everything from intellectual property theft to police overprotection of media stars to the morality of the territory’s Cantopop stars. Whatever else it has done, it has preoccupied Hong Kong’s media to a remarkable degree and presumably galvanized Internet users in one of the world’s most wired cities into a full-on chase for celebrity smut.
The 28-year-old Chen is one of Hong Kong’s most popular entertainment figures, having appeared in 25 motion pictures since 2000 and recorded seven albums. In his naughty little pink laptop were an estimated 1,300 photos, many of them allegedly depicting Chen in various stages of in flagrante delicto with at least 11 female celebrities.
An employee of the shop spotted the photos, said to have been taken between 2003 and 2005, and copied them. From there it was but a short trip to the Internet, to the presumed embarrassment of Chen and certainly the women, some of whom cultivate a public image of chaste cuteness. In the process, a lesson has been delivered: be careful what you film because it will appear on the Internet.
The pictures first started to appear on the Internet on January 26. The story has since raced across all of Hong Kong’s newspapers and magazines and onto the web, with the Wikipedia narrative of Chen and his friends Cecilia Chung, Bobo Chan and others helpfully posting an extract from Google Trends showing the popularity of Chinese-language searches mounting into the tens of thousands for the various parties. Chen, a Canadian-born Chinese who dropped out of Hong Kong’s International School before starting his acting career, hurriedly decamped for Boston while issuing public statements apologizing to his fans and pleading with “everyone to stop forwarding the images on the Internet” so that “the innocent can rebuild their lives.” He was reportedly dropped from the cast of a new movie on Feb. 6 because of the scandal.
But it was the reaction of the Hong Kong police that was most startling. In a city where casual obscenity, barely concealed prostitution and vulgarity abound, the reaction seems more in line with busting a serial killer or going after triad bosses. The force mobilized a team of at least 19 officers, according to the Assistant Commissioner of Police, and assigned them to crack down on the dissemination of the nude pictures, going after local Internet service providers to eradicate all traces of the photos under the Control of Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance, a British-era law that provides for fines of up to HK$1 million and imprisonment for three years for “Publishing or possessing for the purpose of publishing an indecent article without complying with the statutory requirements.” Too late. The story had already metastasized to China, the United States and anywhere else with access to the Internet as websites started publishing the pictures. Rangoon might be safe, since the generals in Burma do not allow any form of free speech.
Like governments everywhere, Hong Kong has been unable to define obscenity beyond Article 4 of the ordinance, which describes “obscenity¨ and “indecency” to include “violence, depravity and repulsiveness,” recalling US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s phrase defining obscenity in his 1964 concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio. Stewart famously wrote of smut, "I know it when I see it.” The court pretty much left it at that, as has Hong Kong
Whatever it was, apparently the photos Chen had snapped of him and the starlets, Gillian Chung, Mandy Chen and Candice Chan, in addition to Bobo and Cecilia, plus his 18-year-old girlfriend, Vincy Yeung – the niece of Emperor Group tycoon Albert Yeung doing all manner of things motivated the police to look for the culprits. Police have met with more than 200 people responsible for major websites, urging them to delete the pictures because of their criminal nature, according to local media.
In particular, the shock to Hong Kong’s entertainment system revolves around Cantopop, a genre in which manufactured talent churns out sweet nonsense to the entire Chinese-speaking world. Training for Cantopop starlets starts in the pre-teens and depends very seriously on a virginal image – something hardly consistent with Chen’s photos of the young women. The right kind of exposure is crucial, but one bad mention is enough to make or break a career.
In addition to the original Chen photos, indefatigable Photoshoppers also went to work, grafting some of the Hong Kong entertainment world’s most recognizable female faces onto nude bodies in suggestive positions in an attempt to capitalize on Chen’s own pictures. We have not actually looked, of course, but if you were to consider this link you could decide for yourself which are the real Chenography and which are clearly altered.
The blogging world so far seems completely unintimidated by the police action, which has seen eight people arrested for disseminating the photographs on the web. More than 100 new photos purporting to be Chen’s girlfriend, Vincy Yeung, were posted Saturday as well as new ones of Cheung, who is now married and has a child.
Sin Chung-kai, deputy chairman of the Legislative Council’s Information Technology and Broadcasting Panel, told the South China Morning Post that the new photos suggested there could be more than one source. “It shows that people are challenging the police’s authority,” Sin told the newspaper. Uh, yeah.

MY STATEMENT

Today I have broken my silence.

As of this evening, the police have made significant advances towards solving this malicious crime. As from the beginning I will continue to give the police my fullest cooperation to bring the perpetrators to justice.

At this time I am not able to discuss matters related to the case, but I do feel it is my obligation to accept full responsibility and take action to help both the victims and those associated with them to heal their wounds.

In this regard, I plead with everyone to please stop forwarding the images on the internet. Furthermore, to completely rid the images from your computer. This is a small step that each one of us can take to help the innocent rebuild their lives. The priority now is for all of us to pitch in and help those in need.

HK cops say earlier photos in Edison Chen scandal appear real

YET another female celebrity has fallen victim to the nude-picture scandal now raging on Hong Kong newstands.

Raunchy images of Hong Kong singer Joey Yung captured in suggestive poses surfaced online on Thursday, the fourth female celebrity to have racy photos supposedly exposed in the media.

But while the other female celebrities have all been romantically linked with Hong Kong actor Edison Chen, Joey has not been known to have been involved with him.

Are the latest pictures genuine?

That is the question police investigators are trying to determine.

The chain of scandal began on Sunday when a compromising photo of Twins star Gillian Chung and EdisonChen appeared in the adult photo section of a Hong Kong forum.

More pictures appeared, one allegedly showing retired singer-actress Bobo Chan performing a sex act on Edison.

Still more pictures followed, this time supposedly showing actress Cecilia Cheung in various states of undress.

MAY BE REAL

Hong Kong police and photo experts who examined the photos involving the first three female celebrities say the photos are unlikely to have been digitally manipulated.

They have the following reasons:

Firstly, they said the lighting and shadows in the background are hard to piece together digitally.

Secondly, the faces and the necks of the celebrities shown do not appear to be digitally joined.

The police also said that because of the low resolution of the photos, they are not ruling out the possibility of the pictures having been taken with a handphone.

Meanwhile, rumours are rife that the marriage of Cecilia Cheung and Nicholas Tse is on the rocks over the scandal.

However, Patrick Tse, Nicholas's father, has refuted these rumours.

A spokesman for Cecilia said the actress hopes the culprit will be apprehended soon.

She also dismissed rumours of her marriage turning sour and said their relationship was good, and thanked everyone for their concern.

There has also been talk that Gillian had attempted suicide following the scandal.

But her manager has explained to the media that Gillian has been given leave to rest following a bout of fever due to the recent cold weather.

The Hong Kong media has recently listed 14 female celebrities who are allegedly at risk of being 'exposed'.

Among them are Elva Hsiao, Jolin Tsai, Maggie Q, Nikki Chow, Rain Li and Rosanne Wong.

These celebrities have all been linked with Edison at some point.

The on-going scandal, along with that involving a Singaporean whose nude pictures have been circulated ever since he joined the Manhunt contest (See report on page10.), raises the question: Why risk being exposed by having nude, compromising pictures taken in the firstplace?

Celebrities and star-wannabees are not alone, said Dr Lionel Lim, a consultant psychiatrist at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. He said some ordinary people also like to capture themselves on video engaged in sexual acts for various reasons.

Said Dr Lim: 'Some people like to do it because they are curious about what it would be like to be on the other side of the camera.

'There is an element of exhibitionism. They may think they have nice bodies and enjoy looking at themselves, and film themselves for their own private consumption,' he added.

'On the other hand, there are the other group of people who capture themselves in sexual acts as it may increase their arousal,' he said.

DEVIANT

'In such cases, there might be a little bit of a voyeuristic tendency.

'Watching their own videos suggests a voyeuristic tendency while being filmed smacks of exhibitionism,' hesaid.

'Either way, these two tendencies are sexual in nature.

'Whether or not they are considered deviant is dependent on personal values and societal norms,' explained Dr Lim.

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Edison Chen - Sex Scandals

Biography

Gillian Chung is a Hong Kong pop singer and actress. She resides in the affluent Midlevels district in Hong Kong with her younger sister. Chung is a graduate of the Kowloon True Light Middle School and attended RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. While at RMIT, she also worked as a part-time model. She did not finish her studies in RMIT.

In 2001, Chung was approached by Emperor Entertainment Group to form a singing group, Twins, with Charlene Choi, to whom she is not actually related.

Chung made her film debut in U Man which was released in 2002 and has since proven her acting skills in a number of films like Beyond Our Ken which has earned her critical acclaim, being nominated as 'Best Actress' in the Gam Zhi Ging Awards. Outdoing herself in every martial arts sequence, Chung has established herself as the up and coming action star.

In the film Beyond Our Ken released in 2004, Chung played as Chan Wai Ching, a spurned girlfriend of the eponymous Ken. The film managed a box office taking of HK$ 3,886,355 and it has its World Premiere in Tokyo International Film Festival.In Gillian's most recent film, which was in January of 2006, Gillian's '49 Days' exceeded the HK $10 million mark, earning a spot in one of Hong Kong's best box office films for the year 2006.

Gillian Chung at back Stage and on camera!!

On August 22, 2006, Hong Kong magazine Easy Finder published a series of photos of Chung inside a changing room after a Twins concert at the Arena of Stars in Genting Highlands, Malaysia.The pictures were taken while she was in the changing room with her personal assistant. One of the cover photos shows Chung's backview as she is fixing her brassiere backstage. A second, smaller cover photo shows an unclad Chung from shoulders down to her bust level.