Last year, 15, 000 visitors packed into freight elevators and wandered the gritty hallways of the Wah Luen Industrial Centre (15-21 Wong Chuk Yeung Street), the epicentre of the festival's activities.

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Stars including Jimmy Wong Yue, Ti Lung and Tso Tat-wah were the first to model their hands for the, Avenue of Stars, modelled on Hollywood's walk of fame.

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Australia led the medals tables, but local victors like badminton aces Wong Choon Hann, Choong Tan Fook and Lee Wan Wah were acclaimed with rapturous shouts of Malaysia boleh - Malaysia can do it.

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See Wah-lun unveiled a straightforward plot: they would send Siu a message by ambushing his friend Wong, pinning his car between two others and then hustling him over to a nearby village, where a secluded, run-down building would be prepared with gloves, hoods, knives, and extendable police batons.

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