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HONG KONG-Yesterday Avex Asia Limited had issued a press release in response to Alan Tan's remark in a radio program the day before about Hamasaki Ayumi's out of tune performances. The press release stated that "Mr Alan Tan's remark had directly affected the goodwill of our company's artist Hamasaki Ayumi, and had also directly affected the interest of the company. Therefore we reserve all right to legally pursuit the matter."

Avex stated in the press release that Alan lack the political intellenge and did not realise that his current status has direct conflict of interest with RTHK Radio's International Pop Music Award. The record company had also mentioned that listeners of the program have changes of being mislead with Alan Tan's remark, thus affecting Ayu's chance of winning the award.
They had also invited Alan to Japan to watch Ayu's live performance.

Source: Apple Daily (26 March 2003)