Edison Chen with a string of starlets

IMAGINE Paris Hilton and Britney Spears caught in the same Internet sex scandal, and you have an idea of the media storm gripping celebrity-crazed Hong Kong. Explicit photos of superstar singer-actor Edison Chen with a string of starlets — including pop singer Gillian Chung and actresses Cecilia Cheung and Bobo Chan — have been popping up on the Web,

The Post's V.A. Musetto reports. Police say the photos were copied by a store clerk when Chen brought his computer in for repairs, and several arrests have been made. Chen went on YouTube to apologize for "this strange, strange ordeal," and Chung, a member of the popular singing duo Twins, called a press conference to say she was sorry.

But that didn't stop Hong Kong Disneyland from killing a Twins music video intended to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The New York Times bizarrely ran a story on the scandal yesterday in its business section, focusing on "free-speech issues" — but they were probably just trying to make the dull section a little sexier