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...MEDIA GIANT, WAS IN China last week to announce new business ventures in that country for MTV and Nickelodeon. Back home, meanwhile, another Viacom network, CBS, was weathering the flak over its disputed report on President Bush's National Guard duty. Redstone spoke with TIME's Neil Gough in Guangzhou...
...dark shades and friendly hipness, he is too cool to plead totally guilty to that charge. "Romanticism means you follow your heart more than your mind," he said last week as he alighted in Hong Kong during a hectic promotion tour that took him to Shanghai, Chengdu, Guangzhou and Beijing. "If that's the case, my films are 75% romantic; the other 25% is the realities, the problem solving and luck." As for himself, he laughs and says he's "60% romantic." Which sounds like the other 40% is talking...
...SIPO had legitimate cause or succumbed to pressure from local drug makers, as critics such as Powers contend. Pfizer says the patent will stay in effect while it appeals, but Chinese companies are already clamoring to make their own versions of the drug. Says Lu Xinyu, marketing manager of Guangzhou drug company Beautiful Pearl Group, "I can't imagine how vicious the competition will...
...regarded by expert listeners as one of the best halls anywhere. In Kuala Lumpur, oil money built a stunning new hall at the base of the Petronas Towers for the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, which celebrates its sixth birthday in August. Futuristic opera houses are going up in Beijing and Guangzhou, challenging Shanghai's Grand Theater. In February, Jakarta opened a 1,500-seat mixed-use hall as a home for Indonesia's semiprofessional Nusantara Symphony Orchestra; Bangkok, too, is building a classical-music venue, an opera house on the sixth floor of a shopping mall...
...have been buttressed by the Daily's scoop?but at a price. Officials in Guangdong province had previously censured the paper for its aggressive coverage of last year's SARS outbreak. At 3 a.m. on March 19?one year to the day after Sun was killed?authorities raided the Guangzhou home of Daily editor Cheng Yizhong, confiscating books, magazines and computer documents and taking him into custody. Last week, two senior staff members of the paper were sentenced to hefty jail terms on charges of corruption. (The prosecution said the two had embezzled company money. Their defense attorney asserts that...