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...signs point to an ugly day in Asian markets in the wake of Wall Street's worst decline in seven years. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock market index plummeted 4.6% in early trading, Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 6.5%, and Seoul's KOSPI index dropped...
...Europe and Japan are still a key driving force in Asia's rapid development. Any global slowdown dims the outlook for Asia. "There will be important economic implications of the financial meltdown in the U.S. on Asia," says Dariusz Kowalczyk, chief investment strategist at CFC Seymour in Hong Kong. The continued financial chaos in the U.S., he says, raises fears in Asia that the American economy will experience a more protracted downturn. "There doesn't seem to be any light at the end of tunnel," Kowalczyk says...
...movie settles a few scores for Van Damme, notably in a swipe on the talented Hong Kong directors who had hard times working with him. (He made Hard Target with John Woo, plus two films with Tsui Hark, one with Corey Yuen and five with Ringo Lam; but the Asian director in the first part of JCVD is bored and contemptuous.) Most of the film, though, is unsparing of the Van Damme legend. With the star, now 47, looking puffy and played out, and with so many references to his off-screen philandering and drug use, the movie bears comparison...
...Work by the hotly touted 29-year-old sculptor and filmmaker appears this month at the Guangzhou Triennial and from Oct. 30 in a solo exhibition at Hong Kong's Ooi Botos Gallery. The Hong Kong show's centerpiece is a six-minute short depicting French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg wading slowly into the sea in a black evening gown...
...These days, she lives in Paris and shuttles often to Hong Kong, producing work that typically melds classical European influences with a minimalist aesthetic. But despite the impression given by her Italian accent - and works like a series of animated shorts inspired by the chapters of Dante's Divine Comedy - she considers herself "completely a Chinese artist...