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...spirits from the mainland's glory days materialized in Toronto. Tian Zhuang-zhuang and Chen Kaige both made their international mark in 1993: Tian with The Blue Kite, Chen with Farewell My Concubine. Both films won festival prizes abroad; both were banned at home, and Tian was forbidden to make movies for seven years. His comeback film, Springtime in a Small Town, is a remake of a 1948 film by the Shanghai director Fei Mu. A young married couple lives in a kind of genteel torpor, broken by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover. More a still life...
...given more than its share to world cinema. Now the territory's beleaguered film industry is asking for a little something back. Last Wednesday the Federation of Hong Kong Film Workers asked the government to underwrite loans for local movie productions and to lobby Beijing for greater access to mainland China. Without government financial backing, film veterans say, Hong Kong cinema might be on its last take. The numbers aren't encouraging: local box receipts fell 55% this summer from a year ago, and output is less than half of what is was in the 1980s, when studios cranked...
...Everyone wants to say something," said Anna Maria Giordano, an Italian conservationist keen to talk about the damage a proposed bridge between Sicily and the mainland could cause. "And they've all come here to say it." Just then a colleague from Egypt arrived, after being brow-beaten by an Egyptian environmental official. "He told me, 'What you are doing is a disgrace. Have you heard any other citizen from any other countries speak out against their governments...
...Considered Suicide Interceptors A BBC investigation finds that some U.S. warplanes were scrambled unarmed on September 11, and that their pilots may have been asked to crash their own planes in order to stop any further hijacked planes targeting U.S. cities. The reason: the threat to the U.S. mainland had been considered so small that only 14 armed fighters were available to defend its airspace that...
...WISE WORDS The etiquette section of this website lets you in on acceptable social and business decorum in more than 70 countries. Some tips for the first-timer on the mainland: when in China, always compliment the food, always say yes when asked if you've eaten?and don't mention Taiwan...