Red Cliff - The Chinese Global Blockbuster
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/07/09/1261s378457.htm
Woo makes best of past
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... con_type=1

'Red Cliff' and Bond: Safety first on set -- or last?
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/ne ... 0730.story

Maggie Cheung's new role: empowering young women
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/20 ... 831111.htm

Welcome to ‘Shuang City’
Christopher Doyle's Olympic ad for Coke
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinajournal/2008/ ... lenews_wsj

Shanghai portraits found in basement of photo shop displayed to public, book to be published
Ruan Lingyu
http://i1.sinaimg.cn/ent/s/m/p/2008-07- ... 171403.jpg
Zhou Xuan
http://i0.sinaimg.cn/ent/s/m/p/2008-07- ... 171403.jpg
http://i3.sinaimg.cn/ent/s/m/p/2008-07- ... 171403.jpg
Wu Dip/Hu Die
http://i2.sinaimg.cn/ent/s/m/p/2008-07- ... 171403.jpg
http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/m/p/2008-07-08 ... 3008.shtml
http://hkmdb.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t= ... +portraits

Ng Chin Han's big break
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BN ... 75509.html

Film Review
Shi Qi / Seventeen (China)
Features Joan Chen
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/6438/1/

TVB nears billion-dollar buyout
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... bedf3f812a

Tartan library travels to Palisades
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/6431/1/

Andy Lau as Justice of the Peace

http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/07/09/1261s378613.htm

"Jackie Chan Museum" Shows His Glory
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/07/09/1261s378480.htm

Vivian Chow Attends Promotion
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/07/09/1261s378658.htm

Takeshi Kaneshiro to front Armani campaign
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Takeshi- ... 59109.html

Miriam, Louis, & Charlie Departing for Sichuan Visit
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Miriam-L ... 58988.html

Karena Lam Has Slimmed Down
http://asianfanatics.net/forum/Karena-L ... 58956.html

'Artistic' photos, songs lost after hard disk goes missing
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story ... 68,00.html?

Yao Ming and Liu Xiang, heroes of 'Heroes'

http://en.beijing2008.cn/news/official/ ... 3655.shtml
Olympics: Green for go, not green for clean
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/6439/1/

Segways Grow Old Nerdily
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0 ... erdily/?hp

Ai Weiwei profiled
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualar ... 11,00.html

Zingara (Gypsy) Qin Hailu
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/07/09/1461s378806.htm

Jia Zhangke Invited to Film UN Announcement
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2008/07/09/1461s378784.htm

Top 5 best-seling DVD in mainland
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpr ... 3585.shtml

dleedlee wrote:Top 5 best-seling DVD in mainland
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpr ... 3585.shtml

Is it even possible to track DVD sales in Mainland China? Much like over here, considering the rampant piracy, I have to wonder what the "actual" top 5 would be.

Shanghai slaying suspect caught on video:
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/457055

Cleaner tracked blood from model's suite to body:
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/ho ... ina_080709


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Brian Thibodeau wrote:Shanghai slaying suspect caught on video:
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/457055

Cleaner tracked blood from model's suite to body:
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/ho ... ina_080709

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The agency sure sounds shady.

More news on death of Canadian model Diana O'Brien in Shanghai
http://shanghaiist.com/2008/07/10/more_ ... n_mode.php

dleedlee wrote:The agency sure sounds shady.

Big time.

This article has a few more details about the company (second one is excerpted in the Shanghaist article):
http://www.nationalpost.com/related/top ... ?id=641271
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ ... odelling09

Seems like their little disappearing act will have repercussions for other, similar agencies in the country, which I'm sure is probably not what the government wants in these sensitive times.

Still gotta wonder about those "dancing" gigs.

A little more tonight:
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/457532


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