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...equally appalling, while people are dying in the wake of the cyclone, to slow the arrival of relief workers. Too bad Burma has no oil. If it did, I'd bet America and its allies would find a way to solve the problem. John C.M. Lee, HONG KONG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nearing the Finish Line | 5/28/2008 | See Source »

...chic and pricey China Club in Hong Kong is about the only place in China where you'll find fortune cookies served after a meal. Like the Cultural Revolution memorabilia in the club's bar, the cookies are meant to be amusing and ironic. But the fact that they're an in-joke among Hong Kong's fashionable diners, as opposed to the time-honored conclusion to meals that they are in Chinese restaurants in the U.S., illustrates just how divorced real Chinese cooking has become from its American offshoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cookie Crumbles | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...equally appalling, while people are dying in the wake of the cyclone, to slow the arrival of relief workers. It's too bad Burma has no oil. If it did, I'd bet America and its allies would find a way to solve the problem. John C.M. Lee, Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...born in Hong Kong to a family with political connections to the island’s then-ruling party the Kuomingtang. He moved to Taiwan when he was a year...

Author: By Hee kwon Seo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Grad Sworn in as Taiwan's Leader | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

National cinemas have different Golden Ages. For Hong Kong, it was the decade from the mid-'80s to the mid-'90s, when directors like Tsui Hark and John Woo were revitalizing the crime film, and when young Wong Kar-wai was revolutionizing the misty romance. At the time, Hong Kong also had perhaps the world's greatest roster of glamorous stars, and prominent among them were Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, the two Tony Leungs, Jacky Cheung, Carina Lau and Charlie Young. All of them are in Wong's 1994 martial-arts reverie Ashes of Time, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Film Country for Old Men | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

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