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...same old stars. Audiences flocked instead to the high-budget Hollywood event movies that are increasingly pitched at international audiences, and to films from Asian nations like South Korea, where young directors weaned on John Woo are making the kinds of dynamic movies Hong Kong used to produce. "The export value of Hong Kong film is deteriorating," says Peter Tsi, executive director of the city's film festival. "It's a little bit pathetic that if we're talking about Hong Kong stars, we're still talking about Andy Lau." But few new talents have surfaced. (The Actor in Focus...
...driving force behind these killings ... is directly linked to the activities of the Chinese." DR. ESMOND MARTIN, Kenyan-based conservationist, who accuses the Sudanese army of slaughtering thousands of elephants for export to China, allegedly so the tusks can be made into chopsticks...
When one student questioned Summers’ decision to export the science departments across the river while the Law School remains in Cambridge, the president presented a vigorous defense of the University’s Allston blueprint...
...nation had ever smelled a recession, Japan is beset by a host of social, political and economic problems: a shaky financial system, chronically low GDP growth, an aging population, hidebound and paralyzed political leaders. Meanwhile, China, the sleeping giant next door, has awakened to spar with Japan over export markets and natural resources, challenging Japan's customary position as the region's role model. In the past year, foreign direct investment in Japan dropped by 3%. In China, it surged...
...young businessman named Akio Morita made his first trip outside Japan to investigate export prospects for his struggling little electronics company. He was dismayed to find that in the sophisticated markets of the U.S. and Europe, the words Made in Japan were a mocking phrase for shoddiness. But in The Netherlands, he recalls, "I saw an agricultural country with many windmills and many bicycles, and yet it was producing goods of excellent quality and had worldwide sales power. I thought that maybe we Japanese could do it too." Indeed, they could. A month ago, Morita took off on his 94th...