Word: cantos
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...Music: Canto-pop Payola Scam
...never-ending battle against venality, Hong Kong's much feared Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) regularly investigates the city's most nefarious industries. It should be well prepared, then, for its latest target: Canto-pop. Responding to complaints that music-industry players offered favors to TV executives in exchange for promotion of particular artists' songs on a music-chart show, the ICAC launched a full-scale investigation of Hong Kong's entertainment world last Wednesday and has since arrested some 28 industry bigwigs. Those arrested include singer Juno Mak; his father Clement Mak, the chairman of CCT Telecom, which owns...
...Saturday, the ICAC announced it was expanding its investigation to include allegations of share-price rigging at a pair of unidentified listed companies. Canto-pop might promote itself as bubblegum clean, but as the ICAC's ongoing investigation shows, the world behind the music is a whole lot stickier...
...Music: Canto-pop Payola Scam
...Leslie's death, his longtime lover, Daffy Tong Hok-tak, said that the star had tried killing himself with sleeping pills last November, and that he had been seriously depressed for 20 years. Twenty years! Back to the time of his first hit album; all through his reign as Canto-pop's top star and Hong Kong film's golden boy. If his eminence and allure could not make him happy, then he was a braver, more cunning artist than anyone suspected. Leslie Cheung danced before us, alluringly, and only let the seventh veil drop last week, revealing the desperate...