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...August, all that has changed. New skylights and lighting configurations have given the place a brighter feel; glass display cases have been removed wherever possible to allow more up-close viewing; every major gallery is now explained with copious context; and leaflets describe featured works in Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English...
...lives might one day change for the better. This is a perk that Kurnia Riza, one of millions of downwardly mobile Indonesians, does not take lightly. The soft-spoken 28-year-old was until recently a purchasing agent and union representative at a Jakarta factory run by a South Korean company that made backpacks for brands including Adidas and Jansport. But on July 1, management informed the union that the factory was closing and production was being moved to China because the costs of doing business in Indonesia were simply too high. Freshly unemployed and with poor prospects, Riza expressed...
...bill collector to tourist guide. After graduation, he worked for two years, borrowed $3,000 to go to Harvard Law School, went back to Hawaii in 1935 with his degree and '10? in my pocket.' The law firm he founded is wonderfully Hawaii?Fong, Miho, Choy & Robinson?Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Caucasian, in that order...
...South Korean director Kim Ki-duk often deals in beautiful surfaces and tarnished souls. His 3-Iron is about a housebreaker (Jae Hee) who slips into people's flats when they are away on vacation. Instead of burglarizing the place, he does ironing and fixes small appliances. (Can we hire him as our house-sitter?) On one of his forays he meets a lovely woman (Lee Seung-yun), the abused wife of a golf-mad businessman. A fable of seduction and soul-mating, violence and revenge, plays out in this nearly wordless film that offers a modern gloss...
...hold elections tomorrow. He might want to check in with the British troops in the "tranquil" south he described, because they tell the BBC that last month alone one base at Amarrah suffered 853 separate attacks, the most frequent combat experienced by a British army unit since the Korean...