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...total, the Cambridge Public Schools have six bilingual programs in five different languages—Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian, Mandarin Chinese and Korean—including the popular Amigos program for elementary students...
...country's $5 billion tourism industry?which contributes about 3% of GDP?is expected to be devastated, possibly for years to come. The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Jakarta saw 700 room cancellations in the days after Bali. Markus Schneider, the hotel's executive assistant manager says that the blast has taken hotel traffic "back to Sept. 11 figures. We were just getting back to normal." Last week, a regional high school soccer tournament, scheduled to take place in Jakarta, was hastily moved to Malaysia, taking scores of families and probably thousands of tourist dollars with it. But the real pain...
...Hong Kong stars to be filled by pirated DVDS and VCDS that are cutting into profits regionwide. Andre Morgan, a Hollywood film producer with decades of experience in the Asian market, says Hong Kong also has a language barrier. When studios began making movies in Cantonese rather than Mandarin, Morgan explains, "It was one of the most critical mistakes they ever made. It limited the future." Morgan, who believes Shanghai will usurp Hong Kong in the film world, isn't optimistic: "I think Hong Kong will ultimately end up marginalized." That's no Hollywood ending...
...stroll down Shizi Qiao, the lively pedestrian-only street below his studio, which is Nanjing's choice spot for people watching. We ate at Nanjing Dapaidang, a vast restaurant made up of several tiny kitchens. Everything looked and smelled delicious. We selected carefully: tiny, crisp shrimp in a mandarin orange juice concentrate; rice and pork steamed inside bamboo rods; and for dessert, a candy-sweet, whole steamed pear...
...need to wait. Middle Kingdom readers are eagerly slapping down $1.80 for Harry Potter and Leopard Walk up to Dragon, a 198-page book that claims to be the series' fifth installment. If the tortured title isn't clue enough: the book's a fake, written in Mandarin by an anonymous Chinese author, though its cover bears Rowling's name. Police are threatening to fine booksellers who stock it, but the People's Literature Publishing House, Harry's official Mandarin translator, seems powerless to protect its copyright. An official box set of the first three Potter books was published...