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...vatican hazardous to your health? That's what Italy's Environment Minister Willer Bordon is alleging, and the Roman Catholic Church is not pleased. The dispute, which broke out in early March, centers on allegedly excessive levels of electromagnetic radiation produced by Vatican Radio's powerful transmitters. The Vatican claims that as a sovereign state under a 1929 treaty it is not subject to Italian prosecutors. Bordon says that unless emissions are reduced by the end of this week, he will order electricity suppliers to cut off the station's power...
...Daniel Mao, chief operating officer of Sina, sits in a Japanese restaurant in Beijing jabbing at his sushi and coolly dissecting the fate of the industry. "Some will get bought, some will go broke," he predicts. "It will all be happening in the next nine months." A former venture capitalist, Mao engineered Sina's creation by arranging a merger between a U.S. Internet start-up and a Chinese software company. Soon he may preside over its resale. Mao contemplates the latest street buzz: AOL is rumored to be trying to acquire community portal Netease, while Microsoft is said...
Suddenly, it seems like open season on American academics in China. Only days after Beijing accused a detained U.S.-based scholar of espionage, word broke last Friday of yet another being held without charges, this time a U.S. citizen. Li Shaomin, a 44-year-old widely published professor of business and a naturalized American since 1995, left his wife and daughter at their home in Hong Kong to visit a friend across the border in the economic boomtown of Shenzhen. That was Feb. 25, and he never got there. His frantic wife, Liu Yingli, rang the U.S. consulate, which assured...
...Dara is the most anticipated Thai film in years for a couple of reasons. It will be Nonzee's third movie, and his first two, Dan Bireley and the Young Gangsters and Nang Nak, both broke box office records in Thailand. Nang Nak went on to tour the European festival circuit, where Nonzee was proclaimed something of a wing-collar art house director, giving Thailand a seat at the ongoing banquet of honor being served up to Asian filmmakers. Indeed, the new movie is being produced by Hong Kong's Peter Ho-Sun Chan, who directed The Love Letter...
...change worked. Duluth broke a 1-1 third period tie and exploded with five goals in the final frame...