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...Still and all, the Subway Cinema lads haven?t lost their eyes. Even their conventional choices display pinwheeling formal expertise. Simply by being shown on a New York movie screen, these films underline the cinematic stodginess of most American films. Compared to a movie like the Korean Duelist or the Japanese Cromartie High School, the Hollywood product looks pretty paltry...
...Duelist, also known as Detective, is South Korean director Lee Myung-se?s first film since his international hit Nowhere to Hide. It was an expensive flop at home, and I think I can see why. But it has a ravishing physical beauty well worth attending...
...Then there's the China factor or rather, the anywhere-but-China factor. Korean giant LG Electronics exports to the Middle East from appliance and consumer-electronics factories near Pune and New Delhi because it's faster to ship to those markets from India than from China. The company recently opened another Pune plant to make optical-disk drives for Europe. "We didn't want to depend on the Chinese for everything," says Kim Kwang Ro, managing director of LG Electronics in India. "Our company decided to diversify...
...more seriously. On Sunday night, Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Aso said during an evening talk show that Japan would consider imposing economic sanctions immediately, and request that the U.N. Security Council take action, if North Korea decided to test a missile. Any test would violate a voluntary North Korean moratorium on long-range missile tests, Aso said, adding that protest from Japan would be "very vehement...
...statements came after days of speculation over North Korean's nuclear weapons and missile development programs. According to South Korean and Japanese news reports over the weekend that cited unnamed diplomatic sources in Washington, Seoul and Tokyo, North Korea has apparently fueled numerous booster rockets capable of launching a Taepodong-2 missile in the country's northeast. The Taepodong-2 is believed to possess a range capable of hitting Alaska. U.S. and Japanese government spokesmen have both warned North Korea not to conduct a test. White House spokesman Tony Snow told CNN on Sunday that if North Korea goes ahead...