Edison Chen Koon-hei, the Hong Kong actor and amateur photographer, celebrates his 32nd birthday today. Despite winning acclaim for his acting in the Infernal Affairs trilogy, Chen seems intent on shooting his career in the foot with mistimed bullets of controversy. After the 2008 sex-photo scandal, which ended in Chen’s self-imposed hiatus from the Hong Kong entertainment industry, this year he found himself embroiled in another drama involving pictures, this time of 16-year-old model Cammi Tse. The public outrage of 2008 resulted in his role in The Dark Knight being cut back to one fleeting scene, opposite actor Morgan Freeman …
The Nobel Peace Prize winner has been honoured with more than 250 humanitarian awards in the past four decades and, since his retirement, has dedicated much of his time to fighting Aids. Mandela was the first president of South Africa to have been elected in a fully representative democratic election. One official who was there to witness his momentous 1994 inauguration was then United States vice-president Al Gore …
