An article on local newspaper Lian He Wan Bao 14/3/11
 

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Here's an article from my local (Singapore) newspaper. I've read about it an was abnit unhappy about some of the things mentioned in it.
The newspaper quoted (HK news) so if anyone from Hongkong can verified anything, soure or whatever would be nice.

Rough translation of the article :
Netizen curse ayumi as "Hypocritical", ayu sent a total message of 143 notes on message board!
After the earthquake, local (japan) artist kept twitting non-stop. However, ayu was accused of trying to do promotion(attract attention)!
Jpop queen ayumi sent a total of 143 notes on twitter during the last 14 hour since yesterday, an average of 1 msg per 6 mins, msg was mostly words of encouragement, asking ppl not to panic, save electricity, asking fans to donate to red cross society to help the victims and only went offline till 5am.
To ayu's 1 day madness messages, netizen hold a suspicion and think she's "Hypocritical". As her new compilation album, ayu-mi-x 7 is being schedule to release later this month 30th, netizen blame her for trying to use the earthquake as a promotion!
They even accused her of only asking ppl to donate money while she herself didnt donate a single cent. With assets of more than 10million HKD and not donating, accuse her of being stingy.
Ayu refute :" Being a Japan singer (I) will definately do something for my country, even if donation is being made, there's no need to go around and annouce it."
Spokesman from recording company explain that it's only a coincidence of the album release date. --- end

:rolleyes

Yeah, this has been spreading around Japanese BBS's and stuff too.

To even think that Ayu, a proud Japanese citizen, would not donate to this tragedy affecting her country is absurd. Like, it doesn't even make sense. She doesn't have to go around telling everyone how much she donates.

this shows that no matter what anyone does can nv satisfy everyone.

what a stupid article >_< she tried to help people as much as she can

I will never believe that Ayu didn't donate money

Yeah of course, ayu caused the earthquake / Tsunami to get good sales with the ayu-mi-x 7s (Thinking like the people who wrote/allowed this article)


But no, I will think like myself and say that they know nothing, and even if she did the opposite thing and kept in silence, they would still accuse her of not encouraging her fans to do something about it (donate, etc). They are the only hypocrites and should feel lucky that the Tsunami didn't get to their city.

Ayu said on TA that she donated.

Also, this article is stupid. :grumpy

And they couldn't wait a few more weeks, months to do such accusations? The Earthquake only happened 3 days ago. They are heartless bastards and deserve the worst.


I feel sorry for the people who believe in this article. And lol they also picked a photo of her full of jewelry, like she was some kind of narcissist medieval queen and she was like that every single day.

Ridiculous. They just don't know Ayu. :headache

She's so sweet !!!! Love her :heart

She has said on TA that she has donated 3 times so far, and plans to continue donating daily.

There are also official records stating that she has made a donation of 1mil yen.

Human stupidity...

Official records show donations made? Whoaa. Well, that's more than enough proof to rebuff this article. Such a stupid one at that, obviously they're the ones seeking attentions by creating rumours :/

Completely absurd!
The netizen/author must be too free to count the number of tweets ayu sent out.
It's not as though she suddenly pop-ed out of nowhere (i.e. create a twitter a/c) and started twitting madly about the earthquake.
Lame :/

Everyone can write **** today without doing research. The album was planned and announced months before this...Are people really that stupid?

geeez netizens!!
even in a time like this, they could just accuse such ridiculous thing about ayu!
moreover it's from HK newspaper! wewww!!!!

This article is ridiculous. I feel sorry for the person who wrote this and for those who believe in this kind of info.

Not going to talk crap about this article, is really immature get over yourselves

We know ayu donated so what does it matter what these stupid articles say

lol because sadly, it's reporters from my country who wrote about this. Man, sometimes I feel so ashamed to be a SGean. :P

But then again, it's a silly gossip column paper.

^because of some stupid articles wow....
I stay away from patriotism but just wow


If she says she donated she donated

How dumb.

You know, she's not the only one on twitter.

When stuff was going down, my timeline exploded for several hours with tweets of emergency information from many of my artists, not just her.

I actually think there are others who did more than she did, but meh, what does it even matter. Some people are just sad.