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...five core countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will continue to falter, owing to the ever-present threat of terrorism. These countries should face Islamic militants squarely and decisively. Only by fighting terrorism and adopting viable economic programs will the troubled ASEAN members emerge from their predicament. Albert Tan Makati City, the Philippines...
...arrested some 28 industry bigwigs. Those arrested include singer Juno Mak; his father Clement Mak, the chairman of CCT Telecom, which owns Mak's management company, Mellow Studio; Alex Chan, the president of Mak's record label, Universal Music Hong Kong; three staff members of local broadcaster TVB; and Albert Yeung, the founder of Emperor Entertainment Group. Several of Yeung's stars, including Eason Chan, Nicholas Tse and Joey Yung, were spotted at ICAC offices and were thought to be among the 29 other show-biz folk brought in for questioning. It appears that record companies may have paid...
...Hong Kong, radio-show personalities face less overt intimidation, but their broadcast freedom is nevertheless being threatened. Albert Cheng, a bespectacled society icon and radio host, decided last month to take indefinite leave from his ultra-popular talk show, "Teacup in a Storm," after the Broadcast Authority warned his radio station, Commercial Radio, about his on-air conduct. (Wong Yuk-man's program is carried by the same station.) The warning comes at a sensitive time, when the issue of the station's license?due for renewal next year?is still being addressed. The controversy centered on two shows this...
...record companies, the Thrills' demo tape suddenly sparked a bidding frenzy that led them to Virgin Records. Or the time that same demo landed in the lap of Mancunian gloom-rocker Morrissey, who invited them to play their first London show - opening for him at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall last September. Although Deasy insists "it's the lazy assumption that this is just a summer album," these tunes wouldn't sound quite right on a rainy day. Take the opener Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far), with its bouncy bass and sun-streaked harmonies. Deasy's breathy vocals...
...KILLED. LOTHAR HEINRICH ALBERT, 54, a German tourist; by government troops; in Aceh province, Indonesia. Albert and his wife, Elizabeth Engel, arrived in Aceh for a cycling tour in late April, before hostilities between the military and separatist rebels resumed. The army says soldiers shot at the couple's campsite thinking they were guerrilla fighters. Engel was hit in the knee, and is in stable condition. The military has come under fire for being trigger-happy and killing noncombatants...