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LOWELL K. CHOW...
...shipments of recyclable trash. For Hong Kong, news of a fire ant invasion on the eve of the high-traffic Lunar New Year holiday was received with dismay, especially since it meant canceling shipments of traditional holiday plants from the mainland. The city's Health Minister, Dr. York Chow, announced a 300-person search-and-destroy mission and advised the public not to panic, saying the fire ants were quite similar to a common local species, only "more aggressive ... [and they] bite harder...
...Antony Chow ’06, assistant manager of The Harvard Shop, a Harvard paraphernalia store run by Harvard Student Agencies, said that while in-store traffic has remained the same as previous years, there has been a recent spike in web orders. According to Chow, Harvard baseball caps with an “H” embroidered on the front have been one of the most popular holiday gifts...
...powerhouse art-film duo who between them have won eight Oscar equivalents in Hong Kong and two Cannes Film Festival awards? There’s also Jeon Ji-hyun, whose romantic comedies have set her up to be Korea’s next leading female actress. And Stephen Chow, Hong Kong’s answer to Ben Stiller, who writes unconventional and intelligent comedies. Apparently, we just aren’t ready to see Asian people in everyday life, when they’re not in period films depicting them recklessly hacking off each other’s heads...
...Still, Chow remains optimistic. “I think it’s actually synergistic,” she says, when I ask her if American remakes will eventually take over the original Asian films. “You have that ricochet effect of the originals geting rediscovered because people like [the] remakes.” But a look at the box office numbers on IMDbpro.com shows that the U.S. version of The Ring was released for $128 million in the U.S. and $230 million worldwide. The original Japanese version went straight to DVD. While the availability of any foreign...