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...only to Hollywood. However, Hong Kong film output has decreased dramatically in recent years along with declining box office receipts due to factors such as the Asian economic recession, rampant piracy and concern over the island’s new relationship with the Mainland. Megastars like Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat have abandoned ship and washed ashore in America, leaving a smaller pool of talent to cope with an ever-growing crisis. Hollywood movies have overtaken local product at the box office, as Chinese audiences tired of cheap, Cantonese-language knock-offs now devote their loyalty and their ticket...
Crimson co-captain Anthony Barker and freshman George Turner combined for a solid 8-5 win in No. 1 doubles against the Lions' top combination of Akram Zaman and Pavel Jefferson. Freshman Mark Riddell and junior William Lee completed the doubles sweep by taking out Oscar Chow and Donny Opici...
...link Microsoft with Sina. (Spokesmen for Microsoft and AOL deny there are any deals in the works.) Amid all the jockeying, Yahoo!'s plans seem the murkiest. International expansion may no longer be a major priority: many of Yahoo!'s most senior international executives have resigned, among them Savio Chow, managing director of Yahoo! Asia, who tells friends he is now heading to Paris to take French cooking classes...
...long after "Chocolat" and "Dancer in the Dark" are forgotten. Oh, sorry, they already are. But we were happy to see a handsome Asian contingent, including presenters Michelle Yeoh (come on, Hollywood, find a juicy role for this accomplished ravisher) and her "Crouching Tiger" co-star, the suavely unintelligible Chow Yun-fat. And to hear Peter Pau, Cinematography winner, zip through 37 names, most of them Chinese, in a 50- second acceptance speech...
...directs a timeless fable that takes place in Detroit in the years of the Yankee dynasty. The disappearance of a magical bat, symbolic of the Tigers' ability to hit in previous years, accompanies skyrocketing salaries in Major League Baseball. Chow Yun Fat masterfully portrays the part of Bud Selig, the baseball commissioner who is unable to use the sweeping powers the owners granted him to remedy the salary situation...