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To put it another way: in "Face," Tsai is attempting to convey the collaborative, cumbersome, intimate, creative process. Just as he can only convey to actors what he wants with metaphors and indirection, so these are the only ways he can communicate the process to viewers.
Chanin, 57, is the youngest of six brothers from a Chinese sugarcane-milling family in the wild western province of Kanchanaburi. Originally named Wong, their father and two other families set up ...
After I saw this startling video of a Thai market ebbing and flowing over the tracks of a train, I had many questions. Where was the market? Can I go there? What is the history of this line? Mystery solved!
It touched a two-decade low of 663 in December after sinking 94% from its all-time peak of 11793 on May 20 of last year. One factor: a 15% to 20% drop in China's demand for iron ore in the last few months of last year, probably because it was allowing inventories to run down.
The global financial crisis is hammering fortunes all over Asia, but the past year was still a good one for philanthropy as tycoons and more modest donors tried to maintain their charity commitments ... I was a contributor to this annual list of philanthropists in Asia in the March 12 issue of Forbes Asia magazine.... Continue Reading →
Susan J Cunningham 