Word: lai
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...yuan ($56) a month, ineffective safeguards?that's the secret of China's economic 'miracle.' The government knows this. So the government protects the bosses and does not enforce the law." The result, he says, is a rising swell of anger directed at the government and the Communist Party. Lai Nilang, 19, slaps the scarred stump of his right arm, crushed four days into his job in a computer-chip factory. "The government doesn't care about us, only money," he murmurs. "People hate them." Zhou looks at his young client, gauging his loathing. "If you neglect the people, then...
...devils snipe. The giants brawl; they trample the flowers. They break things. Sunt lacrimae rerum--the world's sad mortality. But collateral damage is a wily concept, and you have to make distinctions. There are varieties. Sometimes, as at My Lai, it occurs as atrocious revenge. (One detail made My Lai indelible in my mind: the murderers took a lunch break.) Sometimes, as at Kent State, or Amritsar in 1919, the damage may be the consequence of bad crowd control. Stupidity and atrocity are closely related...
...Digital Ramparts The New Radicalism China got counterrevolution, Japan had its jobs-for-life thing, but Taiwan never developed much of an entitlement culture. But take away their Leon Lai downloads, and Taiwanese are ready to storm the barricades. "We cannot remember a time when the students of Taiwan were so united by a burning rage," head-scratched the Taipei Times. The source of this unrest: two weekends ago, authorities in southern Tainan busted into a university dorm room where students were burning bootleg CDs. The predawn sting yielded one guilty coed and 14 MP3-laden computers, which authorities said...
...story is what Variety would dub “one of those things.” Fittingly enough, in a film about high-tech thievery, the main plot elements themselves appear to have been stolen from Mission Impossible 2. Lai is Mac, the leader of the Skyline Cruisers, a gang of high-tech thieves with outrageously inventive gimmicks at their disposal. When the Cruisers undertake a “Mission Noble” to rescue a cure for cancer from the hands of evil, they run into unexpected obstacles, including a former Cruiser who betrayed...
starring Leon Lai,Jordan Chan, Hsu Chi, Golden Harvest