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Edison Chen, the Hong Kong actor who was in the limelight for the sex scandal involving several Hong Kong starlets such as Gillian Chung and Cecilia Cheung was in Bangsar, Malaysia to launch Juice clothing store, which he co-owns with businessman Kevin Poon. Also joining the launch was Sam Lee, another Hong Kong actor. Also present were Edison’s parents and sister who had arrived from Canada.

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Edison Chen who becomes notoriously popular after his sex scandal dominated the Internet in February 2008 has refused to return from the United States to testify at a trial.

His refusal has halted the trial of computer technician Sze Ho Chun, 23, as the prosecution said it would have to apply for a higher court’s permission to obtain evidence from Chen in the US. The permission would allow a Hong Kong judge to take evidence from Chen in the US and assess the credibility of the Canadian-born star.

Is this another cowardice act?

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The Dark Knight is the sequel to Batman Begins (2005) with Christian Bale reprising his lead role as Batman and starring the late Heath Ledger as the Joker.

SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The Dark Knight, one of the most anticipated movies in 2008, starts off with the Joker masterminds a bank robbery. The Joker has plotted to have his henchmen killing off each other so the other will get a larger part. But in the end, the Joker gets all the money and drives a school bus away with all that cash.

Next, there is a group of mobsters meet up with the Scarcrow but their meeting falls short with imitation Batmen with guns foiling the party. The real Batman turns up to stop the fake Batmen as well as the mobs and leaves them all tied up before the cops arrive.

Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) is a new district attorney who is trying very hard to wipe out all the mobs that plague Gotham City. His assistant, Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is also his girlfriend. While Lieutenant James Gordon (Gary Oldman) is a very determined and one of the last few uncorrupted cops remain.

Lau (Chin Han) is a Chinese business mogul who heads the foreign mobsters. At a meeting through video conferencing, he lets the mob leaders know he’s taking their money to Hong Kong to protect them from the lieutenant and the district attorney. The Joker interrupts the mobsters meeting and ends up having the mob leaders hiring the Joker for half of the entire sum to kill Batman.

Batman, meanwhile, flies to Hong Kong with Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) in order to capture Lau. Edison Chen appears briefly as LSI VP at the entrance when Lucius first enters the building in order to plant a mobile phone at the security deck.

With Lau back in Gotham City, the cops manage to get Lau to reveal the names of all the mobs. Harvey manages to bring all these criminals to jails for at least 18 months. Meanwhile, Joker tells Gotham City that if the Batman doesn’t unmask and turn himself in he will kill innocent people everyday. As a result of the Batman not turning himself the first victims are a major judge and the police commissioner.

Joker’s next victim is Harvey Dent but since it’s at a fund raiser built by Bruce Wayne, Bruce manages to save Harvey and Rachel. After that, Lieutenant James Gordon is killed saving the mayor of Gotham by the Joker himself at the memorial of the murdered judge.

As a result of Gordon’s death Bruce determines that he will reveal himself and as Batman tells Dent to call for a press conference. At the conference Dent claims to be Batman himself and is arrested. While being transported the Joker and his gang attack the police vehicles in order to kill Dent. Batman shows up to thwart the attack and ends up having his Batmobile totally immobilized, which ejects a Batpod, a newer version of Batcycle. Running after the Joker with his Batpod, Batman manage to flip the Joker’s tractor trailer. When the Joker stands face to face with Batman on the road, at the very last second, Batman brakes his Batpod since he don’t kill criminals and ends up knocked out in the crash. When the Joker tries to kill Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon steps out of nowhere and arrests the Joker and is immediately promoted to Commissioner by the mayor.

With the Joker in custody, Gordon and Batman interrogate the Joker when he reveals that he and the mobs have taken Rachel and Dent to opposite sides of the city. He forces Batman to choose either one and the other one will die.

Batman beats the hell out of Joker in order to get him to reveal two locations before he speeds off to save Rachel while Gordon and the police are off to save Dent. Dent and Rachel wake up tied to chairs with barrels of oil surrounding them and a speaker phone hooked up both locations. A few seconds before the bombs are suppose to go off Batman arrives but finds Harvey Dent at the location he thought Rachel was to be at. He drags Harvey out of the building right before it explodes but Harvey’s face is badly burned due to the oil spilled onto one part of this face. Lieutenant Gordon shows up at Rachel’s location just in time but the explosion goes off and Rachel dies in the explosion.

In the hospital Harvey is driven to madness over the lose of Rachel. One part of his face is badly burnt, he begins to adopt the nickname Two-Face and refuses any skin surgery. When one of Wayne Corps employees discovers the money being shifted to help fund Batman and his role, he goes public on a evening talk show but is cut by the Joker who said that if someone doesn’t kill the employee in 60 minutes he will blow up a hospital. While the new commissioner is evacuating the hospitals Batman tries to locate the Joker, who shows up dressed as a nurse with a red wig at the hospital room of Harvey Dent. He says he wasn’t responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Rachel and that it was the mob and James Gordon’s corrupted cops. He unties Harvey and gives him a gun to start his payback. After Harvey leaves the Joker blows up Gotham General Hospital. While Harvey begins to confront everyone who has a part in causing Rachel’s death. He flips his coin in order to determine the fate of his victim and has killed five men including two cops along the way.

Meanwhile, the Joker declares that he will rule the streets and that anyone left in Gotham will be subject to him and what he does. He tells people they can leave now but that he’ll have a surprise for them in the tunnel and on the bridge. As a result most people falls into his trap by leaving via two ferries that the Joker has loaded with bombs. In hopes of showing everyone how evil and corrupted they can be he gives the detonators to the bombs to the other ship or if they don’t the Joker will blow up both ships by midnight. One ship is full of criminals and the other is loaded with civilians. The civilians vote to blow up the criminals boat while the criminals don’t do anything at all. As time goes on one man on the civilians boat can forward to volunteer himself to blow up the other ship to kill the criminals; on the criminals boat one criminal steps forward takes the detonator and throws it out the window instead. Batman and Gordon manage to locate the Joker and see that he has a bus load of hostages from the hospital. Batman discovers that the people in the clown masks are actually the hostages with unloaded guns tapped to their hands and that the people dress as doctors are the actual criminals. Batman takes on both the criminals and SWAT teams to save the hostages. In his final fight with the Joker both fight to the ledge of an unfinished skyscraper where Batman stops the Joker from blowing up the two ferries and throws the Joker over the side. The Joker laughs all the way down until Batman saves him at the last moment. The Joker acknowledges that Batman really is incorruptible but that his “white knight” Harvey Dent isn’t that he’s unleashed him on the city.

Batman then goes to the place where Rachel was killed to find James Gordon and his family there with Harvey Dent. Harvey wants Gordon to pay for the death of Rachel. Harvey shots Batman and is about to kill Gordon’s son when Batman knocks him over the side of the building while saving Gordon’s son. Harvey falls to his death. Unable to hold on any longer Batman falls as well. Gordon goes down to check on Batman and discuss that the Joker really wins if anyone find out about Harvey and the five people he’s killed. To prevent the further decline in the the city of Gotham, Batman voluntarily tells Gordon that Batman will be held responsible for the five deaths and that the police will be on the hunt for Batman. The movie closes with the Batman getting away.

Overall, The Dark Knight is definitely the best superhero film in 2008. Well scripted and full of actions, the best part in my opinion is the clever plots the Joker set up in order to put Gotham City in chaos. In the memory of Heath Ledger, you have played the best Joker ever, possibly the best villain ever.

My ratings: 9 out of 10.

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Finally, Edison Chen returned to Hong Kong from the U.S. on Thursday, and made a public apology for his sex scandal. He mentioned he would take an indefinite break from the Hong Kong entertainment industry after fulfilling his outstanding contracts.

Read the full statement:

Today I have come back to Hong Kong to stand before you and account for myself. I have never escaped from my responsibility. During the past few weeks, I have been with my mother and my family and my loved ones to show support and care and at the same time to have them support and care for me.

I admit that most of the photos being circulated on the Internet were taken by me. But these photos are very private and have not been shown to people and are never intended to be shown to anyone. These photos were stolen from me illegally and distributed without my consent.

There is no doubt whoever obtained these photos have them uploaded on the Internet with malicious and deliberate intent. This matter has deteriorated to the extent that society as a whole has been affected by this. In this regard, I am deeply saddened. I would like now to apologize to all the people for all the suffering that has been caused and the problems that have arisen from this. I would like to apologize to all the ladies and to all their families for any harm or hurt that they have been feeling. I am sorry. I would like to also apologize to my mother and my father for the pain and suffering I have caused them during the past few weeks. Most importantly, I would like to say sorry to all the people of Hong Kong. I give my apology sincerely to you all, unreservedly and with my heart.

I know young people in Hong Kong look up to many figures in our society. And in this regard, I have failed. I failed as a role model. However, I wish this matter will teach everyone a lesson. To all the young people in our community, let this be a lesson for you all. This is not an example to be set for you.

During my time away, I have made an important decision. I will whole-heartedly fulfill all commitments that I have to date. But after that, I decided to step away from the Hong Kong entertainment industry. I have decided to do this to give myself an opportunity to heal myself and to search my soul. I will dedicate my time to charity and community work within the next few months. I will be away from Hong Kong entertainment industry indefinitely. There is no time frame.

I have been assisting the police since the first day the photos were published and I will continue to assist them. After this press con., I have obligation to help them with their investigation and hope that this case can end soon as everyone I think has the same wish.

I would like to use this opportunity to thank the police for their hard work on this case. Thank you. I believe everyone’s priority now (and) my priority now is to stop the suffering and pain, for not letting this…we do not want to let this situation become more out of control. We need to protect all the innocents and all the young from matters like this. In this regard, I have instructed my lawyers to do everything possible within the law to protect all the innocents, victims of this case. I believe that a press statement is being issued as we speak on what my lawyers have advised me to do.

Lastly, I would like to thank everyone for coming here today and listening to what I have to say. I would like to also apologize once again to all the ladies and their families, my family and to everyone in Hong Kong and everyone in our society. I am deeply saddened by this. And I apologize to everyone (who) has to go through this. I would like to also thank you for giving me this opportunity to say what I have wanted to say all along in my heart.

I hope, after today, I can have your forgiveness. With regard to this case, with everything, everything that has happened, I am deeply sorry. I hope you all accept my apology and give me a chance.

Thank you.

Alternatively, you may prefer to read Edison Chen’s statement in Chinese.

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Edison Chen’s sex scandal with Gillian Chung and Cecelia Cheung have been spreading in the Internet for weeks now.

Edison Chen and Gillian Chung

The sex scandal started after pictures were stolen from Edison Chen’s laptop by a technician that was repairing it. It was rumored that there were a total of approximately 1,300 pictures.

The list of women Edison Chen was involved with now includes Bobo Chan Man, Cecilia Cheung Pak Chi, Gillian Chung Yun-Tung, Joey Yung, Yu Chiu, Vincy Yeung, Yumiko Cheng, Mandy Chen, Rachel Ngan and Candice Chan and maybe more.

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Learn more about Edison Chen’s Photo Scandal at Wikipedia.

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