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...films as well as mainstream fare. China's Zhang Ziyi proved that in her debut movie, The Road Home, directed by her mentor Zhang Yimou, before beguiling the world as the willful young heroine of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. At Cannes this year she was radiant in two fine films: 2046, where she managed to outshine longtime mesmerizers Gong Li and Faye Wong; and Zhang Yimou's own House of Flying Daggers, a follow-up to his martial-arts epic Hero...
...enough resources to contain drug pirates and that light penalties for those convicted of counterfeiting are no deterrent. Recently, the owner of a Beijing-based company arrested for selling fake Viagra and exporting it to the U.S. was sentenced to one year in prison and a $12,000 fine. "The [Chinese] government talks of reform, but we need more," says the QBPC's Simone. "Seize and fine isn't enough." A consumer who buys a fake Swiss watch might lose a little time. Someone buying a fake drug might lose all the time he has. "Counterfeiters," says Simone, "get away...
...have a government make the decision for them. Mamère's initiative has in any case given the political class in France something to chatter about. But it's hardly a major act of civil disobedience. The Green leader's legal advisors point out that the fine he faces for disobeying the prosecutor's warning comes to €4.50 - the modern equivalent of the 30 franc penalty set for such infractions in a 1946 revision of the Civil Code. That's one remnant of the past that advocates of gay marriage are not keen to see change...
...INDICATORS Drug Bust Investigators in Italy named 4,713 people, 4,400 of them doctors, for allegedly taking bribes from British drug firm GlaxoSmithKline to prescribe Glaxo drugs rather than cheaper or generic alternatives. A similar probe in Germany two years ago saw several then employees fined; earlier this month, a Munich court gave one person a fine and a two-year suspended prison sentence...
...Fine, maybe I just don’t like the fact that he’s associated with that interview...