Left: The hearse carrying the casket of the late "Cantopop" diva, Anita Mui, leaves the funeral home for a crematorium in Hong Kong last Monday.

Right: Hong Kong singer-actor Nicholas Tse (R) and a cousin of Anita Mui carry a portrait of the late singer during her funeral. More than a thousand sobbing fans waited for hours outside Hong Kong's main funeral home to say goodbye to Mui, one of Asia's best loved "Cantopop" stars whose deep voice ruled the local airwaves for many years. She died of cervical cancer at the age of 40.