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...things that matter in the Taiwan underworld: money and firepower," says Ko-lin Chin, a Rutgers University professor who has written extensively about Taiwan's organized crime. "They won't hand over what they need for their survival." True enough. When police in southern Taiwan closed in on fugitive Chang Hsi-ming and three members of his kidnapping ring last week, they were attacked with assault rifles; the criminals held off as many as 1,000 officers for five hours. Four cops were wounded. Chang, who ultimately escaped, was last seen forcing a hostage into a getaway car, toting...
...popular-movie split at Cannes. Tsui Hark is invited to serve on the jury; yet not one of his (or any other Hong Kong maestro's) action movies ever appeared in the competition. Nor did exceptional films by India's Mani Ratnam, Japan's Takashi Miike and Korea's Chang Yoon Hyun. It seems not to have occurred to Cannes that a continent containing nearly half the world's population?and many of its most avid moviegoers?might be producing some movies worth watching, and cheering, at an international film festival...
...pretty shocked. My students asked for my address [to complete the nomination form] and I thought they were going to send me a prank through the mail,” Chang said. “I never got anything in the mail—all I got was a banquet invitation...
...Chang, who won the award after only one year of teaching, said he approached his lab section from the mentality that “a lot of people think of labs as a drag, and I said I’m going to make this as fun and laid-back as possible...
...Chang attributed his award to the students in his section...