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...Such a confrontation occurred in 2005 when the two governments faced off over potentially rich underwater natural-gas and oil fields in the East China Sea. The deposits lie inside maritime territory claimed by both countries, and the dispute has so far prevented either from tapping the oil and gas. Joint development is the only realistic solution, but with the two competing over everything from natural resources to global influence, neither can afford to back down. "Both sides have face at stake," says Ryosei Kokubun, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at Tokyo's Keio University...
...good lawyer makes you believe the truth," says attorney Doug Rich (Eddie Izzard) in THE RICHES, FX, MONDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T. "A great lawyer makes you believe the lie." Doug knows whereof he speaks because he's not actually a lawyer. And he is not actually Doug Rich. He is con man Wayne Malloy, who with wife Dahlia (Minnie Driver) and kids have taken over the swellegant life of a man who died en route to his new suburban home. As Wayne tries to scam his way through corporate law, Dahlia adjusts to straight suburban life and the kids...
...paid. A drive to Bulawayo, ostensibly to search my hotel room, became a shopping trip as five officers crammed the car and spent the day hunting roadside stalls for cheap tomatoes, queuing at gas stations and ATMs, seeking out a country butcher with a reputation for value. "I cannot lie to you. The situation is very bad," said Moyo. "You can see for yourself...
...Yasukuni, because China sees the shrine as a symbol of unrepentant Japanese imperialism. Beijing has made Yasukuni a litmus test - it was only when new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became purposefully vague on visiting the shrine that icy Sino-Japanese relations began to thaw. Yushukan perpetuates the lie that the war was unavoidable, and that the 5,843 mostly young men who lost their lives as kamikazes died for a transcendent cause, died to save Japan. The museum is a celebration of wasted lives...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: The hungry hungry hippos are actually just hungry...