Word: lau
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...Qing Emperor?the townspeople enlist the help of fighters from the local holy mountain, each gifted with a mystical blade: the Seven Swords. Tsui's purposefully gritty visual style makes it tough to tell the players without a scorecard, but Hong Kong movie veterans Lau Kar-leung, Leon Lai and Donnie Yen lead the way in thrashing Fire-wind's warriors, despite odds of about...
...Wong's In the Mood for Love, about the furtive affair of a journalist, Chow (Leung), and a woman (Maggie Cheung) living in the same boardinghouse. Now Chow, relocated to a hotel, has erotic adventures with a prostitute (Zhang Ziyi), a gambler (Gong Li), a vamp named Lulu (Carina Lau) and the hotel manager's beguiling daughter (Faye Wong), who is also a mysterious android in the science-fiction novel Chow is trying to write...
...Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing, and another CASS administrator, Chen Hui, had been rounded up around the same time for allegedly leaking state secrets?a charge that, like espionage, can carry the death penalty. But in an open letter to Hong Kong newspapers last Friday, Ching's wife, Mary Lau, claimed that her husband was not working for "a foreign intelligence agency," as Beijing alleges. In fact, Lau stated, Ching regularly helped to research reports for the Chinese government on Hong Kong and Taiwan affairs. His government contact? None other than sociologist Lu, whom she claims occasionally gave Ching internal...
...that a self-described "nationalist" reporter who once worked for Hong Kong's pro-Beijing daily Wen Wei Po and a sociologist who often appeared on Chinese television to promote government policy are being detained for anti-Chinese activities? According to Lau, the 55-year-old reporter was picked up by Chinese security personnel on April 22 while in Guangzhou to collect a top-secret manuscript by a friend of Zhao Ziyang, the popular ex-Premier purged for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, who died under house arrest in January. Although the manuscript's exact contents are not clear, a previous...
...market for $695,000, about twice what it would have cost two years ago. Another developer has raised its prices in the downtown area by more than 40% since November. Still, many investors feel compelled to buy. "They don't want to miss the boat," says Albert Lau, managing director of Savills Property Services in Shanghai, who describes the past two months as a time of "impulsive, panic buying...