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...Beijing's security concerns over the Olympics, however, are probably behind the new measures. In Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong's famous warren of drug dens, second-hand cell phone shops and budget hostels popular with petty traders from overseas, dozens of stranded merchants mill around helplessly. Many hold passports from a list of 33 countries, mostly from South Asia and the Middle East, whose citizens are now barred from applying for any entry permit to China in Hong Kong-a sign, perhaps, of China's concern about a potential Muslim terror threat. Mohammed Salim, a Karachi-based trader who makes...
...state are mostly symbolic affairs, concerned less with ironing out differences than with paying respects in a formal, stylized setting. In that sense, China President Hu Jintao's upcoming trip to Japan - the first by a Chinese head of state since 1998 - is expected to be run of the mill. The meticulously scripted itinerary calls for Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to play host as Hu strolls through Yokohama's Chinatown, visits temples in Nara and dines at the Imperial Palace. On May 8 at Waseda University in Tokyo, Fukuda's alma mater, the two leaders are scheduled to play...
...that walked down spring runways at Dries Van Noten, Prada and Dolce & Gabbana might evoke a trip to the lush gardens of Giverny or Tahiti. Or they could appear to be the result of a completely different kind of psychedelic trip. But to those in the know?designers, fabric-mill owners and trend spotters?the plethora of prints this season summons something much closer to home: Ratti, the fabric and printmaking house based in Como, Italy...
...company of several musicians and industry folk who mill around after the show, Wallach is nothing if not an intent and tenacious self-promoter, bringing the same keen and determined energy to networking as he does to performing. Looking to explore the evening’s after-party prospects, he questions rapper Pusha T of the rap duo Clipse...
...label. Many now acting alone admit they got a leg up from a record company. "The only reason we could even get away with this," Radiohead's lead singer, Thom Yorke, said recently about selling its album directly to fans, "is that we've gone through the whole mill of the business in the first place...