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WHEN this picture was taken last October few people would have imagined it would assume the value of an Old Master painting. It showed actress Gong Li at the finish of the 555 Hong Kong-Beijing motor rally, where she was a guest.

There was consternation among the Hong Kong entertainment press a few weeks ago after her sensational split from celebrated director Zhang Yimou: reporters realised the handsome Suit at the centre of the shot was her new boyfriend. He is Singaporean Ooi Hoe Seong, managing director of British American Tobacco in China, the company that makes 555 cigarettes.