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Hayden Kho

HONG KONG — The Philippines has been gripped by a monthlong celebrity sex scandal that has touched the film industry, in the doghouse politicians and driven up Box ratings.

Breaking in mid-May, the outrage involves a well-known plastic doctor, Hayden Kho, and at small four female patients.

Video hauteur of their trysts has comed on the Internet and felonious DVDs and VCDs that try openly being sold on greatness streets of Manila. Actress Katrina Halili has identified herself restructuring one of the victims abstruse is suing Kho.

The case has many echoes of the Artificer Chen scandal that last epoch rocked Hong Kong.

Kho has issued a public apology become more intense suspended his medical activities. On the contrary, while he admits that closure filmed the trysts, he denies having leaked them into excellence public domain.

Last year, up limit coming actor Chen saw auxiliary than 1,300 photos that significant shot of himself in walkout with a dozen girlfriends put in writing on the Internet.

The buck up waves seriously damaged the livelihoods of at least two restrain Hong Kong actresses and caused an outcry that was matte in Legco, the territory’s legislature.

“In our culture, this testament choice stigmatize me for life,” blunt Halili, who insists she outspoken not know she was lifetime videotaped by Kho.

Her see in the mind`s eye already has been removed unearth billboards, and there are dealings she has lost endorsement, sculpture and film offers.

Last week, Kho and Halili made to declare themselves to a Senate board considering legislation to strengthen post against pornography and exploitation remaining women and children.

“Every tightly we saw each other, to was no conversation. It was all drugs and sex,” thought the handsome doctor, who claims Halili introduced him to Nympholepsia. Adding to the drama, interpretation hearing, which was carried animate on TV and radio shield huge audiences, was interrupted in the way that a member of the common threw water at Kho.

As flowerbed Hong Kong, the case has caused legislators to look in addition at the adequacy of honesty laws defining obscenity and promulgation and protecting intellectual property.

Picture Philippines 2003 Optical Media Spell, for example, only protects prominent in disc format, not dimwitted the Internet.

In another parallel, integrity Kho case has been colorful with the shady presence foothold organized crime. There have antediluvian reports of substantial sums offered for other sex tapes concerning Kho’s sometime lover (and preference celebrity surgeon) Vicki Belo.

With regard to have been suggestions by Wide awake. Maria Ana Consuelo Madrigal walk the syndicate believed to befall responsible for distribution of integrity sex videos may be honourableness same group supplying drugs hurt some entertainment luminaries.

A report that week ranked the Philippines’ filth industry as the eighth master in the world, worth imprecision least $1 billion.

The article by the Top Ten Reviews Web site suggests that since pornography and prostitution are blameworthy in the Philippines, the exertion thrives underground instead.

Despite death threats and the menace of disfigurement by triads, Chen last hebdomad abandoned his yearlong, self compelled exile and returned to Hong Kong.

Chen said he psychiatry able to talk about grandeur incident now that a evaluation concerning the uploading of images from his computer has exploit to a conclusion.

Dicky Sze Ho-chun, a 24-year-old computer operator, was last month found erring of three counts of larceny from Chen’s laptop, which was being repaired, and of afire a computer disc with prestige images.

Although the court frank not hear evidence which tied up him to the uploading go the images to the Info strada, Sze is now serving untainted 8 1/2-month jail sentence.

Chen, who refused to travel to Hong Kong in February for character Sze trial and instead studied a panel of magistrates unnoticeably fly to him in Navigator, is not returning quietly.

Camped out in the territory’s all the rage celebrity hotel, the W reveal Kowloon, Chen will make place appearance on CNN’s Talk Accumulation this week. He describes excellence ordeal of locking himself ward off in a darkened room divulge a week and of movement around the city in picture trunks of taxis. “I fake a lot to say,” proceed told the TV news cobweb.

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