Different public attitudes allow tarnished star to shine again

A VIDEO CLIP of Edison Chen's speech at the US-China Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development Forum, in which he shared his experiences of starting a business, went viral online. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Chen has impressed the audience with his inspiring speech in which he expressed the hope young people in China will work hard to promote "Made in China". On domestic social media he was praised for being "patriotic" and "hard-working".

For the past nine years, his name has been associated with a sex scandal in early 2008, when explicit photos of him having sex with various female movie stars were posted online. Under public pressure, he apologized and withdrew from the entertainment circle of Hong Kong.