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...pain is already being felt. Stanley Lau, deputy chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, estimates that export orders at some 70,000 factories owned by Hong Kong companies in southern China have declined 5%-10% this year compared with 2007. Recent months have seen a first wave of bankruptcies and closures among the tens of thousands of factories in industrial zones from Guangzhou to Shanghai that make toys, jeans and PCs bound for U.S. retailers...
...What film directors have inspired your work? Alan Eggleston, Grand Rapids, Mich. Thousand Years was very much influenced by a Japanese director called [Yasujiro] Ozu. Princess of Nebraska is a tribute to the French New Wave - to directors like Jean-Luc Godard...
...they're just buying a cup of tea." Heap, who opened the shop less than a year ago, has dropped her prices 25% and let some staff go. She remains upbeat about the future, but with Canary Wharf on her doorstep, she concedes, "I do feel a slight wave of fear...
...expertly measured to give a messy apartment and a Mediterranean horizon the same sense of space. Vistas overflow with color. “Contempt” is a visual feast, and only one from Godard’s formidable filmography.As one of the pioneers of the French New Wave movement, along with the likes of François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, Godard seemed to concern himself not only with subverting ideas of genre and dramatic distance, as he did with “Contempt,” but obliterating them altogether. His films are a testament...
...Some of the same slogans were heard in Indian-administered Kashmir during the summer, when tens of thousands of people poured out on to the streets in a surprise wave of protests, triggered by a dispute over a 99-acre piece of land designated for the use of Hindu pilgrims visiting a nearby shrine. The Indian government eventually backed down, but Hindu hardliners subsequently enforced a blockade of the only road linking the Kashmir valley with the rest of India. The opening of cross-Line of Control trade route is seen by some as a concession to the Muslim majority...