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Edison Chen: Climbing back after a fall from grace

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Edison Chen is one of Asia's biggest names in showbiz. He is also one of its most controversial. The Hong Kong-Canadian pop star fell from grace spectacularly last year after photos he took while having sex with a string of female celebrities found their way onto the Internet. Sze Ho-Chun, a Hong Kong computer technician, has been charged with posting the explicit photos online. The pictures showed Chen in compromising positions with various celebrities, including Canto-pop star Gillian Chung, actress Cecilia Cheung and former actress Bobo Chan. The saucy content became a web sensation, forcing Chen, 28, into early retirement and sending him fleeing to his childhood home, Canada. After he repeatedly refusing to return to Hong Kong, the territory’s Department of Justice flew a legal team, including its chief magistrate, to Vancouver. There on Tuesday Chen gave evidence. He told the unusual hearing the photos were his and he had stored them on a personal laptop that had gon