So Tong and his partners suggested Hung, who, as another huge Hong Kong star, was a logical substitute.

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Now in his 50s, the evergreen Hong Kong star of song and film stayed popular last year with the movie Blind Detective.

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The trip takes about nine minutes (as long as it used to take to read the now defunct Hong Kong Star, a lowbrow tabloid newspaper, it was said), and departures are very frequent.

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