Word: lau
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...might be a bit premature to compare expat Singaporean author Lau Siew Mei to Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, but her first novel, Playing Madame Mao, is certainly evocative of the Nobel laureate's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Lau's work is also one of the best novels ever written about Singapore...
...build a theme park in Shanghai?Hong Kong's commercial bete noire. Hong Kong three years ago partnered with the U.S.-based entertainment conglomerate to build the first?and some believed at the time, the only?Chinese Disneyland. But that was then. Now, says Hong Kong legislator Emily Lau, "it seems Disney doesn't give two hoots about Hong Kong...
...Bombay Dreams. Like all good Bollywood, it's a tale of love, family and incomprehensible 30-minute musical numbers BILL LAIMBEER Former NBA Bad Boy becomes coach in WNBA. He'll teach his players a respect for the game and how being a crybaby can influence referees Losers ANDY LAU Canto-popper hit by $19 million lawsuit. Bad, but he'll feel better if he asks himself the R. Kelly question: Am I facing 21 counts of child porn? ABDUL RASHID DOSTUM Feared Afghan warlord left off Hamid Karzai's Cabinet, sending message that the new Afghanistan frowns upon tying...
...raised hackles among British Chinese activists. A small but well-aimed campaign even convinced the library to tweak the exhibit's panel text to better reflect the dark side of the Company's activities in China. "The Opium Wars marked a turning point in history," says campaign organizer Steve Lau, who runs the Web site www.britishbornchinese.co.uk. "Chinese refer to the next century as the 'hundred years of shame.'" The library seems blindsided by the controversy: it hadn't actually ignored the East India Company's opium trade, and the company was all but dead by the time the Opium Wars...
...think the motives behind them are genuine and well-intentioned, but I think having metal detectors will slow things down,” Lau said. “Traditionally, it’s a tedious process and a mad dash...