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...Whichever side of the river you're on, Goa is where visitors have always sought exotic bliss. It's a Macau or a New Orleans?a weird cultural cocktail of its own devising; and like Macau it was a Portuguese colony, until 1962 when the Indian government annexed...
...electronics company; with falsifying the accounts of Akai to the tune of more than $38 million; in Hong Kong. The Shanghai-born tycoon disappeared in late 2000 after the company racked up debts of more than $1 billion. He was arrested after returning to Hong Kong by helicopter from Macau. Akai, which was a 70-year-old Japanese electronics giant before Ting took it over, has been dubbed "Hong Kong's Enron...
...Anthony Wong?s Wong Chi-hang, the demon butcher of Macau in ?The Untold Story,? might be seen as a figure of black comedy - a fiercer sibling of the woman in Roald Dahl?s 1953 story ?Lamb to the Slaughter.? In both tales the killer feeds the evidence to the police: in ?Lamb? the cops eat the the murder weapon; in ?Untold Story? they eat the corpse, which Wong has chopped into pieces and cooked into pork buns. Yet we know this is no comedy from the look on the actor?s face. It is a glower of implacable rage...
...Like Herman Yau?s ?Untold Story,? Billy Tang?s ?Dr. Lamb? is based on a true case. Southeast Asia can?t boast many serial killers; Wong Chi-hang may have been the only one in Macau history, and Lam Go-wan in Hong Kong?s. Both were remarkable for reasons other than their sociopathy: Wong evaded the police for nearly a decade, and Lam carried out his victims? dismembering and packaging in a cramped apartment he shared with a half-dozen family members. As in ?Untold Story,? Danny Lee (who gets co-director credits on both films) plays the tough...
...became interested in alternative and Chinese traditional medicine in the sixties. “I didn’t want to do anything that could be considered collaboration,” he says, explaining the maverick tendencies that led him to earn his doctorate in Oriental Medicine from the Macau Institute of Chinese Medicine in 1975. In addition, Kaptchuk is licensed to practice acupuncture in 40 states. But what Kaptchuk casually fails to mention is his current status as a leading researcher for HMS’ frontier Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medicine?...