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Leslie Cheung’s suicide: how the King of Canto-pop’s death shook Hong Kong 15 years ago

“Pop star, actor and director Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing plunged to his death from the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Central in an apparent suicide last night,” ran the story in the South China Morning Post on April 2, 2003, reporting the Canto-pop star’s death 15 years ago. ‘Gor Gor’ fans mark anniversary of star’s death “Cheung, 46 – star of the hit 1993 movie Farewell My Concubine – fell from the 24th floor window of the hotel and was found...

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