Word: fight
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...What was it like beating up Jet Li in The Forbidden Kingdom? In a real fight, who would win? Wong Mei Fern, KUALA LUMPUR In a real fight, I would let him win. He's my younger brother. Beating Jet was very fun. Sometimes he helped me, sometimes I helped him. When the cut was finished, I'd still give him two punches and he'd still block me, then he'd give me a kick and I'd block him. It was like sparring...
...want to send out a message to our people from China, from Indonesia, from Malaysia: no country is like home. When you're in Japan, when you're in America, you're nobody. I play a nobody in Japan. Somehow all the temptations keep coming and you can't fight them. If we can send out a message that nobody should escape from a boat illegally to Japan or even Australia or America, that you should just stay where you are, then that's a good message...
...danger of a slippery slope is that you never know when you’re going to fall. As medicine makes further advancements in the realm of pre-natal screening, we must remain aware of the point at which the fight against diseases progresses into an unnatural quest for perfection...
...battle. Enforcing them is another. Activists complain that corruption within the security forces is enabling traffickers to operate with impunity. Many traffickers have "very good ties with the police," says Yanar Mohammed, who heads the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, a group at the forefront of the fight against trafficking. Young women who have attempted to escape from brothels have sometimes been returned by police officers, she says. "It turns out [the cops] were loyal customers." Saad Fath Allah, director of the National Institute of Human Rights and the head of an inter-ministerial anti-trafficking committee, acknowledges...
...Monday, at the Red Shirts' makeshift headquarters in the shadow of Bangkok's neo-Italianate Government House, protest leader Jatuporn vowed to continue his crusade until Abhisit leaves office. "Once the army kills the Red Shirts, then the Red Shirts will rise up and fight," he told TIME as a group of protesters with badges that read "Red Guards" nodded in agreement. "It's not my plan to make violence like this, but our people will stand up and fight...