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...very impressed with your report on Asia's heroes [Oct. 10]. Sania Mirza and South Korean soccer star Park Ji Sung have boosted the image of Asian athletes to new heights. Asia has always had great sports stars, but until now, very few managed to steal the limelight from Europe's important athletes. All Asia now identifies the British football club of Manchester United with Park?no mean achievement. And the Indian belle Mirza has taken the tennis world by storm. Subhobrata Basu Kolkata, India...
...trilogy of short films, with no plot or character elements in common, varying widely in tone. The first short, “Dumplings,” by Hong Kong director Fruit Chan, horrifies by suggesting its premise—a woman eating babies—is entirely realistic. The Korean film by director Chan-wook Park, “Cut,” is black comedy descending into madness. Japanese director Takashi Miike directs “Box,” a delirious psychological nightmare. They all succeed brilliantly in extraordinarily different ways...
...Earlier this month, Pyongyang banned sales of grain in the country's recently legalized farmers' markets and announced a return to the old socialist system of government-controlled rice handouts. Private grain markets were just a stop-gap measure necessitated by a few bad harvests, according to the North Korean official in charge of our group, Choe Jong Hun. "Now we have a good harvest and we are able to feed ourselves," said Choe. "There is no need to sell rice in the markets...
...North Korean government says it still wants help with economic development. But at an economic conference organized by the European Union in Pyongyang this month, officials from the North didn't have a clear plan. "They didn't ask us to help in a transition to a market economy," said a European diplomat who attended. "They barely participated. There was no debate." The country desperately needs to rebuild its economy. But any liberalization could lead to a loss of the absolute political control enjoyed by Kim. The dilemma is evident during a visit to the Kumsung Educational Institute. Boys recruited...
...With its grandiose monuments and rows of orderly apartment blocks, Pyongyang looks impervious to any threat. At a flower exhibition consisting exclusively of a red begonia named after the Dear Leader (the Kimjongilia) and a purple orchid named after his father (the Kimilsungia), North Korean visitors gush about the joy of living in a workers' paradise. "Thanks to the wise guidance of the great leader, life has improved so much," a soldier assures us. That may be true for members of the privileged ? lite, of whom we catch glimpses as they are ferried around town in Mercedeses with tinted...