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Slumped on the cool tatami mats of a Japanese restaurant in Beijing, Jiang Wen looks spent. China's gruffest actor and boldest director has been slouching and smoking and dishing out melancholy in front of the camera all day, and he can look forward to more of the same through the night. His 1.83-meter, 98-kilo frame crumples against the wall, his eyes beat and basset-hound weary...
...Mueller, like his predecessors, is walking a narrow line. "The reason the folks at FBI headquarters are paralyzed is they have to undergo a Senate inquisition every time they act," says a former Clinton Justice Department official. "If they investigate Wen Ho Lee, it's profiling. If they don't investigate, they're attacked for letting the China stuff go by. They can't win. They are paralyzed because the Senators who are jumping up and down today about the FBI being paralyzed will be jumping up and down tomorrow when they...
...Like Wu, Wen Jing Feng, president of the Beijing-based Adam Eve Health Centers, is trying to ensure China is not left behind in the race to perfect the vibrator. During a question-and-answer segment at last month's Boao Economic Forum, a regional summit held on Hainan Island, Wen urged Prime Minister Zhu Rongji to work with Thailand on a sex industry technology-transfer agreement. To the amusement of the audience, Zhu said that sex was not on the agenda...
...than the character development, coherent narrative and compelling dialogue that make for great movies. The pictures crawl and the stories sag under the weight of ponderous orientalism and languorous panoramas reminding us we are in Asia?you know, the land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But filmmakers like Zhu Wen and Jeong would do well to remember that just because a film is Chinese or Korean, this doesn't automatically make it interesting...
...behest of the U.S., Taiwanese police last week tracked down the computer servers that housed Movie88 and, in a highly publicized raid, shut the site down. Authorities said Tan was clearly breaking Taiwanese copyright laws. "This is Taiwan's year to crack down on intellectual property theft," says Lu Wen-hsiang, a senior official in the Ministry of Economic Affairs...