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Bruce Lee Hong Kong home to be saved as tourist site
Wed, Jan 07, 2009
Reuters
>HONG KONG (Reuters) - A philanthropic bid by a Hong Kong tycoon to preserve the one-time residence of kung fu legend Bruce Lee and transform it into a major tourist attraction honoring the film icon was approved on Tuesday.

The green light comes after a long-running struggle by fans to save the 5,700 square-foot, two-storey town house from an inglorious fate as a seedy love motel in a leafy Kowloon suburb.

 

 

 
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