Word: cheung
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...left of a once-vital film form. Fruit Chan's Public Toilet wanderlusts from India to New York City with its young, blond, Chinese hero, who is named Public Toilet because that is where his mother gave birth to him. With the success of Made in Hong Kong, Little Cheung and Durian, Durian (which Toronto showed two years ago in Italian subtitles?how's that for arty?), Chan has become Hong Kong's emissary to film festivals; he seemingly cannot take a Polaroid snapshot without getting an international prize for it. His new movie fits into his gritty, emotive...
...Indie director Fruit Chan established himself with gritty films about the "real" Hong Kong, the dingy city beneath the skyscrapers. From the washed-up triads of The Longest Summer to the street urchin of Little Cheung, Chan's characters scrape the depths to survive, aided by just enough street humor to make life tolerable. With its menagerie of losers leavened by twisted romance, Hollywood Hong Kong is a lighter film, literally, than its predecessors. By day the sun shines through the tin roofs and sultry shacks of the Chus' shantytown in the New Territories, and by night a lunar white...
...believe it can lose weight without willpower. The popular media pour on the pressure to be thin. Diet aids (non-deadly ones) are heavily advertised throughout the region, often with the endorsements of pop singers and TV personalities, like Takuya Kimura in Japan, Chen Liping in Singapore and Shirley Cheung Yuk-san in Hong Kong. Says Hidehiko Sekizawa, head of Japanese research group Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living: "Japanese people are not yet obese in the American sense, but because the average person is skinnier here, even slightly plump people think of themselves as fat. And they're willing...
...shareholders' rights?minority investors are complaining about rough treatment at corporate hands. In April, Boto International, one of the territory's many publicly traded but family-controlled companies, announced plans to sell its manufacturing operations. The buyer? An entity co-owned by Boto's own chairman Michael Kao Cheung-chong and by Carlyle Group, a $13 billion U.S. private investment firm that boasts heavyweight advisors such as former U.S. President George Bush Sr. Unfortunately for outsiders holding Boto stock, manufacturing is the only part of the company that makes money...
...voracious Li?whose Hong Kong-based conglomerates Hutchison Whampoa and Cheung Kong Group are major players in real estate, retailing, telecommunications and shipping?is never accused of setting his sights too low. Tom.com now aspires to become one of the world's largest producers and broadcasters of Chinese-language television programming. The only question, says Tom.com chief executive Sing Wang, is "whether we will become the largest Chinese media group or the largest Chinese media group that is ultimately part of an even greater media group. We are serious. We are not some start-up experiment...