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...Never before the police here have suffered so many losses in one attack," Surajit Kar Purkayastha, a police inspector-general, told The Associated Press on Tuesday...
...Despite its lingering reputation as a drab building rife with petty crime, as a whole, Chungking Mansions has cleaned itself up in the past decade with the addition of more than 200 security cameras and an increased police presence. Thanks in part to Wong Kar-wai's popular 1994 film Chungking Express, the site draws a regular flow of tourists to its affordable curry houses and warren of knockoff-electronics booths. While members of Hong Kong's triads - the local underground crime syndicates - play a key role in Nine Dragons, they don't have much of a presence...
...Pourzand's mother, Mehrangiz Kar, was a visiting fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School this past year. In 2001, she was convicted and imprisoned in Iran for "acting against national security" after calling for constitutional reforms and secularization. Her husband, now in his 70s, is currently living under a loose form of house arrest in Tehran...
...abbreviations and initials too - something that Wall Street, which sells what may now be the most dangerous products around, might want to keep in mind. Schwarz cites a 2006 study in which investigators found that on the first day of trading, newly issued stocks with simple ticker symbols like KAR sold better than those with less pleasing ones, like RDO. "While the authors did not argue about risk perception," he says, "I believe risk may be underlying the effect...
...Chungking Express Wong Kar-wai's 1994 distillation of Hong Kong grunge and glamour weaves four top Asian stars (Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro) into a crazy-tender two-part romance. How can nosebleed-high art also provide fizzy delight? Here...