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...Kong struggles through creative and financial doldrums, Chinese-language cinema is poised to take off?as the increasingly mainland-oriented Hong Kong International Film Festival will demonstrate when it opens this week. Chinese films like Hero and House of Flying Daggers have earned world-class box office, while the gradual liberalization of the mainland market means the demand for Chinese-language movies is only going to grow. If Hong Kong's smartest producers can leverage the city's international financial networks, China experience and stable of stars, then it could defend its position as the beating heart of Chinese cinema...
There is much to lament about Putin’s Presidency, from his promotion of the siloviki (former military and KGB officers), to his gradual elimination of independent media outlets. But the Chechen conflict has been Putin’s most dramatic—dramatically horrific—failure. With the confidence of a cowboy and the sophistication of a schoolyard bully, Putin favors using a tank to crush a cockroach. Throughout the war, calls for moderation and respect for basic human rights have been dismissed as unreasonable restraints on Russia’s ability to achieve a long-term...
...wrong-Syria was only redeploying its troops to the Bekaa Valley. The tap dance continued all week, culminating in Assad's speech to the Syrian Parliament on Saturday, in which he scuttled back to his pre-Moussa position: no mention of complete withdrawal but the promise of gradual redeployment to the Bekaa Valley. "It is an embarrassment," said Ayman Abdul Nour, founder of the All4Syria website and an Assad supporter who is hoping for reform of the ruling Baath Party. "We always hope for delay. If we can delay withdrawal, the Lebanese will start to fight among themselves, the Americans...
...Officially, annual coal-mine fatalities have dropped by nearly 1,000 since 2002, even as coal output has increased by a third. But despite the gradual improvements, ensuring mine safety remains a daunting challenge. China's skyrocketing demand for coal to keep its power plants and factories humming has forced one out of every three state-owned mines to operate above capacity, according to the State Administration of Work Safety, and has led many smaller, more dangerous mines to reopen illegally. Independent worker organizations are banned and China's official trade union is closely tied to the government, leaving miners...
...regime dominated by a small ethnic minority (the Allawites) trading on a long bankrupted Baathist ideology. Its international economic and diplomatic isolation, combined with the strategic blow of losing its hold on Lebanon while Israel and the Palestinians restart their peace process could leave the regime dangerously vulnerable to gradual internal collapse...