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...China needs Hong Kong. But?in film as in other industries?it may not need it forever. So the city has to capitalize on its status as a global financial hub immediately...
...positive sign is this week's Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum, which matches promising movie projects with investors. Organizers expected 150 submissions?and received 280 from around the region. "Hong Kong can really develop its status as a film-financing center for Asia," says Raymond Yip, director of service promotion at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, which organized the forum. One challenge will be getting Hong Kong's banking sector involved in film financing. The button-down banks have long been leery of the flamboyant film industry, but they've shown increasing interest...
...politics wasn't just dinner-table-discussion fodder. It was a family tradition. As the grandson of one of the founders of China's communist movement and the son of a leading leftist writer, Huang imbibed the virtues of Marxist thought early. But because of his family's privileged status in Beijing circles during the 1960s and '70s, he also read the uncensored news reports sent to his father before they were fed into the propaganda machine. During heated mealtime debates, Huang was soon taking the knowledge gleaned from those papers?and from hours spent listening to the forbidden Voice...
...politics wasn't just dinner-table-discussion fodder. It was a family tradition. As the grandson of one of the founders of China's communist movement and the son of a leading leftist writer, Huang imbibed the virtues of Marxist thought early. But because of his family's privileged status in Beijing circles during the 1960s and '70s, he also read the uncensored news reports sent to his father before they were fed into the propaganda machine. During heated mealtime debates, Huang was soon taking the knowledge gleaned from those papers--and from hours spent listening to the forbidden Voice...
...rulemaking process that people lose critical cognitive and motor skills as they age. The powerful Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has also argued to keep the rule in order, some say, to keep its younger members happy. The FAA and Congress have been unwilling to question the status...