Word: yan
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...took the box office by storm, providing a welcome jolt for Hong Kong's moribund movie industry. The tight, tense cop thriller showcased two of Hong Kong's top actors as a pair of dueling moles: corrupt police inspector Ming (Andy Lau), informing for a criminal gang; and Yan (Tony Leung), an undercover cop who had infiltrated the same triads. Infernal Affairs raised the bar for what a Hong Kong film could be, and its commercial success guaranteed sequels?a slight problem given that most of the cast is killed off in the original. Instead, co-directors Alan...
...Such shakedowns appear to be common. Outside the gates of the Changping C.-and-R. center on the outskirts of Beijing, Liu Yan is standing in the rain hoping for news of his 28-year-old daughter who came south from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang to work in a knitting factory. He lost touch with her more than a month ago, but it's been only a week since he received a phone call from a center employee telling him his daughter had been picked up and that he must come to Beijing and pay $600?more than double...
Alexander L. Pasternack ’05, who is also a Crimson editor, counts his fingers three times to get the number of band members right. Seven, he finally decides: Audrey de Smith, himself, Yan Xuan ’05, Neil G. Ellingson ’05, Eric P. Wehrenberg-Klee ’05 and Timothy H. Wong...
...Though fans will be disappointed to discover that Choi and her other half, Gillian Ching Yan-tung, rarely man the store themselves, the duo's image brings in a varied crowd. "I think we're more upbeat than most second-hand clothes stores in Hong Kong, and we appeal to a wide age-range," says shop assistant Ivan Fok. "We've had fans as young as eight in here, as well as people in their forties...
...government-owned machine-tool company was saved from bankruptcy after local bureaucrats ordered one of the city's four credit-guarantee offices to back loans to the factory. Officials feared that if the company closed, laid-off workers would raise a fuss. The case is not an isolated incident. Yan Guosong, general manager of a Chengdu loan-guarantee agency, estimates that more than half of government-backed business loans are now going to state enterprises. "The central government created guarantees to help small businesses, but it wound up lending to state-run companies anyway," he complains...