- or at least you may think so if you chanced upon a newspaper seller on board the Beijing underground with ’special news’ of the Hong Kong pop & movie star’s death. This scam is in fact over a year old… last year we stumbled across similar newspapers of the star’s passing away, yet as far as I am aware Andy Lau (劉德華) is in fact still live and kicking today!
To cheat people by selling false news (and I don’t mean the Chinese media in general here!) is wrong… to falsify news that someone is dead is just cheap. Maybe Andy Lau would be flattered that his popularity in China warrants publication of special newsflashes when he dies, but it disgusts me how some people in this country can still resort to such low taste methods to earn a living.