Friday November 27, 2009
Lau and wife attend memorial ceremony
OTHER NEWS & VIEWS
Compiled by A. RAMAN, ZANI SALLEH AND NG SI HOOI
HONG KONG superstar Andy Lau and his Malaysian wife Carol Chu are trying to play down their relationship, but they still cannot run away from media attention.
Major Chinese dailies reported that the couple went to the grave of Chu’s father for a memorial ceremony on Sunday.
Sin Chew Daily reported the couple, together with Chu’s family, were surrounded by bodyguards when the ceremony started at 7am.
The ceremony lasted for an hour, the daily reported.
The daily reported that the ceremony was supposed to have been held on Wednesday but was carried out three days earlier to fend off media attention.
> Nanyang Siang Pau reported that the Hong Kong entertainment industry was shocked over the death of veteran Hong Kong actor Chan Hung Lit.
Actors and actresses from the TVB studio – some of whom were in tears and shock upon hearing news of his death – rushed to the hospital.
Chan, 66, was on the set of TVB drama Off Pedder when he complained of chest pains before losing consciousness.
Chan was well known for his villain roles in Mandarin movies in the 60s and 70s.
Other News & Views is 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 this > sign, it denotes a separate news item.
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