News Links - 9/5/07

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Jia Zhangke's new film explores China's booming fashion industry
http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews ... 3920070903

Fruit Chan to shoot English remake of Don't Look Up
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/2029/1/

Tony Leung Ka-Fai Tells His "Career As a Teacher"
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/09/05/1261@270389.htm

Hollywood is set to remake another Hong Kong action thriller, 'Breaking News'
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/ ... Remake.php

"Help Me Eros" debuts at Venice Int'l Film Festival
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007- ... 663812.htm

"The Sun Rises as Usual" premieres in Venice
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007- ... 660866.htm

Charlie Yeung shoots ad for French cosmetics company*
http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/h/p/2007-09-05 ... 3108.shtml

The casino that ate Macau
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Busi ... 5Cb01.html

HK police stage bogus car crashes in money scam
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_new ... ?id=121342

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HK police stage bogus car crashes in money scam
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_new ... ?id=121342

Another entry in the "Stupid Criminals" archive:

They were rumbled when three taxi drivers complained of being involved in collisions with the same car, a Saab, on the same stretch of road within the space of days in June last year, prosecutors said.

Although they succeeded in getting motorists to hand over sums of up to 1,000 US dollars in compensation, the pair ended up reinvesting more than 2,300 US dollars of the 3,300 US dollars they made on repairs to their Saab