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...helping to develop the territory into a creative city. No metropolis ever became important without world-class academic institutions. Consider the City University of Hong Kong. Earlier this year when one of its professors, Li Shaomin, disappeared into a Chinese jail on trumped-up spy charges, Chang Hsin-kang, City University president, refused to extend any help even as some 600 scholars and colleagues of Li's around the world signed a petition calling for a fair and open trial. Chang excused himself by claiming Li's wife never requested help. (In fact she had asked him twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hong Kong Dying? | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...tips. This spring, four members of Good Friends, a Seoul-based refugee aid group working in the area, were held, along with a local translator, in detention for 50 days. They say they were beaten and accused of spying. "The tension is very high right now," says Erica Kang, a spokeswoman for the group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...Tsai's What Time Is It There? takes place in Taipei and Paris. A street vendor (Lee Kang-sheng) who deals in wristwatches reluctantly sells the one he is wearing to a woman headed for France. In empathy or mourning, he soon is compelled to change all available timepieces?including huge clocks on building faCades?seven hours back, to Paris time. Shot in long takes with a static point of view and hardly any dialogue, the film may goad restless viewers to ask, not "What time is it?" but "Are we there yet?" We suggest you stick around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Movies Hit the Road | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

Kozmo was founded in 1997 by former Goldman Sachs associates Joseph Park and Yong Kang, and opened its first operation in New York. As of last week, the company had grown to offer services in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington...

Author: By Kate L. Rakozcy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Popular Online Retailer Stops Operations | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...decided to update Puos Keng Kang, and tried to find a copy of the original, but none was available in his country. The Khmer Rouge had destroyed them all. But Fay Sam Ang , like most Cambodians, knew the old Snake-Meets-Girl story. (In a memorable scene in the new film, a 4.5-m python borrowed from a local temple slithers on top of soap star Ampor Tevy and darts its tongue at her face.) The snake impregnates the peasant woman. Her husband returns from a trip, discovers her infidelity and slits open her belly, releasing hundreds of tiny snakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medusa on the Mekong | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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