News Links - 12/10/07

[dleedlee]

Zhou Xun Back in the limelight
http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story ... sec=movies

'Painted Skin' shooting gets underway
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797 ... id=13&cs=1

"Lust" enjoys awards stampede at Golden Horse
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5111/1/

John Woo's rocky return to China
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5113/1/

Olivia Cheng Becoming Iris Chang
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=156927
The rape and revision of Nanjing
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/IL11Dh01.html

Crazy Lottery (China) review
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5122/1/

Happily Ever After (Japan) review
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5121/53/

Singers, Actors Claim Fashion Awards
Karen Mok, Kwai Lun-Mei

http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/10/1261@303046.htm

Macau casinos victims of colossal Vegas-style scam
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jJu ... cPwUh3s5yg

[Brian Thibodeau]

Heard a cool segment/interview on CBC radio today about this. The news is a couple months old, but still pretty interesting how an urban legend turns out to have a big whiff of truth to it:

Looking Beneath Chinatown
Few have seen the tunnels hidden under the streets of this Fresno neighborhood, but people are giving the area a second look.
http://www.fresnobee.com/263/story/178689.html

Secret tunnels tell tale of gambling, prostitution
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10 ... index.html

Fresno's tunnels a gateway to secret history of Chinatown
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/200 ... htm?csp=34

[dleedlee]

That's pretty cool, Brian. I've never heard about those tunnels before, thanks.