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...Guangdong province, scores of factories cluster together, their front yards choked with piles of twisted metal, junked plastic and old computer parts. But the killers who struck in the predawn hours of July 16 knew exactly which path would take them to their targets: Hou Kuo-li and Yeh Ming-yi, a pair of middle-aged businessmen from Taiwan who lived in the Lianjiao plant. Their bodies were discovered later that morning, along with those of two Chinese security guards and a 17-year-old female employee. According to news reports, all had their throats slit. A watchman...
...Crouching Tiger to send the collective spirit soaring, no Dancer in the Dark to set the critics at knifepoint. There was, however, a common thread in many Asian films. From the usually insular Iranians to the peripatetic Chinese, top auteurs were literally on the move, making road movies. Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) and Jacob Cheung (Hong Kong) went to France; Cheung also touched down in Africa, as did Iran's Abbas Kiarostami. And although Hong Kong is now officially part of the People's Republic, a trip to Beijing (for Mabel Cheung and Stanley Kwan) or Suzhou (for Yonfan...
...president walks softly, his black sneakers squishing along the concrete path between lilies and the white stucco walls of the presidential mansion. As he points out a Ju Ming sculpture he admires and some work he's had done to the house, his gestures are compact, as if his arms automatically seek the shortest distance between repose and extension. His bearing is quiet, but always lurking is the authority, both of his formidable intellect and his high office. To his credit, he wears his achievements as easily as his blue oxford shirt. In these moments, as he shows...
...dreams fall the hardest. Last Friday, YAO MING, China's 2.25-m basketball prodigy, was kept from entering the NBA draft. U.S. scouts had tipped the 21-year-old as a No. 1 pick. It wasn't Yao's first disappointment. Last year, he was barred by Chinese sports officials from attending the Nike hoop summit?where the best young stars show off their skills?because of outsized obligations to the Olympic squad. This time around, though, the decision turned less on national politics than simple economics. In exchange for releasing their imposing center, the Shanghai Sharks wanted an estimated...
...completely CGi film based on the popular computer game series. Features the voices of Alec Baldwin, Ming-na, James Woods and Donald Sutherland...