News Links - 2/12/07

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Andy Lau asks actors to give up using drugs
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007- ... 730296.htm

Korea's Rain camps out for 'Cyborg'
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout ... 8&nid=2853

Jia Zhangke Presides at Berlinale Talent Campus
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/02/11/60@195203.htm

Film captures Mongolian life for posterity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00518.html
Tuya´s Marriage: The sole bearer of Chinese film in Berlin
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpr ... 0685.shtml

TWO icons of Chinese pop culture, comedian Stephen Chow and martial arts novelist Louis Cha, may make a movie together.
http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story ... sec=movies

Japanese prefer home grown
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout ... 6&nid=2853

Chinese Song for Migrant Workers Favored by Mel Gibson
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/02/11/60@195199.htm

A bleak storyline for the Filipino film industry
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/11/ ... vies12.php

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Sil-Metropole stands tall in the straddle
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/769/

'Banned filmmaker' is a relative term
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/770/

HK floats plan to prop up local films
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/767/

HK awards disqualify "Still Life"
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/777/

Perth - DVD review
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=26498

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Busy Bai Ling
http://asiancemagazine.com/200702/whats ... h_bai_ling

Is she worried about being upstaged?
After lying low for a year, HK star Sammi Cheng is ready to soar again. But is she heading back to work because of 'rival' Miriam Yeung?
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/show/story ... 39,00.html?