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...most Sri Lankans, life is already returning to normal. Colombo's clubs are hopping and its hotels are 90% full. Tourists from mainland China sniff suspiciously at local specialties served on banana leaves and gamble the night away in casinos. Local Romeos on the southern coast prowl for free-spending lady tourists?gentlemen, too?who may be looking for a fling. The country hopes to get 500,000 tourists this year, more than in any year since the war began...
...ARRESTED. YANG WEN, 25, a mainland Chinese man; for last November's murder in Hong Kong of well-known businessman Henry Lam; in Hunan province, China. Lam, a director of one of Asia's largest golf resorts, Shenzhen's Mission Hills Golf Club, was shot dead while eating breakfast at his regular teahouse. Local media reported that he was having business difficulties on the mainland...
...with Enron-style deceptions, making it nearly impossible to place a value on their operations. Liu Binbin has seen it all as a lending supervisor at the Chengdu City Commercial Bank (C.C.C.B.), one of a hundred or so such banks set up over the past several years across the mainland specifically to lend to small companies. One applicant, the owner of a factory that makes pickled vegetables, visited Binbin's office recently with his ledger: a single piece of handwritten paper folded in his breast pocket. Other would-be borrowers often pile receipts on Binbin's desk in lieu...
...players in parkas and toques. Outside it is 7?C; inside it feels about half as warm. During the halfhearted workout the coaches' infrequent instructions are translated for McClintock and Byrne by an exceptional teammate: Ma Jian, the 2-meter power forward who, a decade ago, became the first mainland Chinese to play basketball at a major U.S. college, Utah. Like McClintock, Ma?whose given name, Jian, means Healthy?had a brief taste of the NBA: a handful of preseason games for the Los Angeles Clippers in 1995. He was the last cut, and he cried like an orphaned child...
...Salvation arrives, as it often does, in the form of a beautiful girl: a local seamstress, played by rising mainland starlet Zhou Xun. Zhou lights up the screen like a fistful of fireworks. The boys don't have a chance against her charm, by turns girlish and devilish. The darkly handsome Luo, ever the leader, stakes his claim first, his brooding eyes tracing Zhou with a hunger neither quite comprehends at first. Introverted Ma plays the third wheel but struggles to suppress his growing feelings for the seamstress...