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...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...
...planned Iowa State Fair gig 'N SYNC Boy band beats lawsuit filed by puppetmakers who claimed singers had misappropriated identity of artificial, sawdust-filled characters CLINT EASTWOOD Aging actor named to California Parks Commission. First order of business: cut him in half so tourists can count the rings Losers ZHU RONGJI Chinese Premier red-faced over economic forum snafus. To-do list for next Boao summit: fewer boring heads of state, more beer bongs MARLON BRANDO Godfather hit with big palimony suit by his maid. Who else is a guy who lives on his own private South Pacific island going...
...four members of the Taiwanese acting-singing sensation F4 that is rapidly building an Asia-wide following. O.K., so the guys can't really act. Or sing. And they can barely dance. But they're a boy group, for chrisakes: Zhou, Vanness Wu, Jerry Yen and Ken Zhu are only required to have nice smiles, hot bodies and fantastic hair. These things they have in spades?and not a tattoo or pierced body part among them. In Taiwan, these squeaky clean little love boys are being held up as model spouses. If that sounds absurd, remember that this...
...rather 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...
...extraordinary means when seeking justice. In January, for example, hundreds of villagers in Henan and Guangdong provinces overturned cars and attacked officials accused of corruption. The anger is strongest in a vast countryside where hundreds of millions have been bypassed by economic development and face increasingly hard lives. (Premier Zhu Rongji acknowledged last week that "incomes for farmers in some major grain producing areas ... are decreasing...