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BANNED. Lou Ye, 41, controversial Chinese director; from filming on the mainland for five years, by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television; in Beijing. Lou reportedly failed to seek approval from government censors for his film Summer Palace-set in the days leading up to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, a topic Beijing considers taboo-before screening it at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Lou called the ban "ridiculous" and said it would not stop him from working...
...stature and was purchased by Alfred Chan, a Canadian entrepreneur who was born near Xiamen and raised in Hong Kong. Chan married Fiona and made the unlikely decision to move the company's operations to Xiamen and relaunch the brand to cater exclusively to the then tiny population of mainland Chinese women with the means to afford luxury clothing...
...more than 40,000 poor villagers throughout China. (Yu's own sight was saved by a cataract operation in 2000.) But because there is still little support for philanthropy from local governments?"since they aren't able to take credit for it," Yu says?Bright Action, like many mainland charities, isn't as effective as it could...
...India to foreign private banks. Having joined the World Trade Organization five years ago, China is required to start making its banking market more accessible to foreign firms in 2007. In anticipation, Citigroup opened a private-banking office in Shanghai in March?the first such office on the mainland?in a bid to attract some of the 300,000 Chinese millionaires that it reckons are currently underserved. "With the kind of wealth that's been created in the last 10 years or so, clearly there is a lot of raw material," says Citigroup's Leung. "There's a high savings...
...Madrid, Istanbul, London and perhaps even New Delhi. But none of those attacks has come close to matching 9/11 in scale of devastation - or, just as importantly, in organizational sophistication. And despite regular taped warnings delivered on Al-Jazeera, al-Qaeda has managed no further attack on the U.S. mainland...