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...fire fighter, Lau grew up the fourth of six kids in a public-housing estate in Hong Kong's industrial Tai Po district. Today, he commands about $1 million per movie and averages three a year; in addition, he performs several concerts annually for about $125,000 a show, and he boasts a steady stream of lucrative fees for advertisements and endorsements. This level of success "is more than enough," says Lau, whom friends describe as traditional and who lives in a house next door to his father's in Kowloon. In his spare time, Lau practices magic tricks...
...said it appeared to erode the high degree of autonomy guaranteed to Hong Kong when it was handed back to China in 1997. Tiger, Tiger SRI LANKA Thousands of civilians fled their homes as rival factions of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam clashed in the eastern Batticaloa district, threatening the 2002 cease-fire between the government and the Tigers. The country already faced fresh political turmoil as President Chandrika Kumaratunga's United People's Freedom Alliance won parliamentary elections but failed to achieve an outright majority, forcing it to find new coalition partners. Neck and Neck INDONESIA Preliminary...
...Cape Town, try the Rainbow Curtain township tour run by Grassroute Tours (www.grassroutetours.co.za). This includes stops in District Six, a once mixed-race suburb near the city center where residents forcibly removed in the 1960s are only now finally returning. There's also Langa, the city's oldest black township, where tourists can visit the ghetto hostels set up by the apartheid government to house migrant workers, and Khayelitsha, Cape Town 's largest settlement, now with its own vibrant unofficial economy for everything from clothes to cars. The complete tour costs $45. If you want to stay overnight, Khayelitsha resident...
...Johannesburg. Crime forced many businesses to flee to safer suburbs; even the stock exchange moved out. But over the past few years the government and business groups have begun redeveloping the city, and visitors are starting to come back. One big success is Newtown, long the city's theater district and now full of restaurants and other attractions. Access to the area is easier with the opening of the Nelson Mandela Bridge over a number of railway tracks. The mainstay of the district remains Market Theatre, which defied apartheid laws against mixed audiences long before democracy arrived. A police report...
...fresh (try snoek, a Cape fish often barbecued, or the gigantic Indian Ocean prawns caught off the coast from Durban ) and preserved. Particularly memorable is salt cod, which adds hot chilies to the traditional vinegary European recipe. If all that food has made you thirsty, head for the wine district east of Cape Town and sample vintages made from the national grape pinotage - a cross between Pinot Noir and Hermitage - or a delicious tipple from one of the newer plantings of sauvignon blanc or shiraz. Or try a shot of the fiery fruit liqueur mampoer, also called witblitz. End your...