Beijing Adult Entertainment: Banking on heartthrob Christian Bale, China aims for an Oscar
BEIJING (Reuters) — Zhang Yimou, one of China’s best-known directors, is banking on heartthrob Christian Bale to help boost the country’s chances of winning an Oscar, with his latest film on a tragic chapter in the nation’s history.
“The Flowers of War,” China’s Academy Award entry for best foreign language film, centers around a mortician (Bale) who gets caught up in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and has to save a group of school girls from the clutches of the Japanese.
On the way he becomes involved with a high-class Chinese courtesan, finding both love and personal redemption.
The film, which hits Chinese screens on Friday followed a week later by a limited release in the United States, holds little back in its graphic depiction of the events of more than eight decades ago, a story everyone in China knows well.
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Sino-Japanese ties have been overshadowed for years by what Beijing says has been Tokyo’s refusal to admit to atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in the country between 1931 and 1945.
See the full article from “Tempo”
Beijing Adult Entertainment: Sex-worker brides bring HIV across the border
BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhuanet) — Like millions of other people living in China’s countryside, Huang Haitong in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region never dreamed that he could marry a foreign woman.
Neither did he know the risk of doing so.
“I have been living with HIV for several years,” said the 52-year-old resident of Pingxiang, a city across the border from Vietnam.
The man requested anonymity, saying he would rather be known by his pseudonym.
He was born in Hunan province and went to Guangxi in 1998, opening a small hotel there. His wife, who had come from Vietnam, had once been a sex worker.
His wife, whom he preferred be known by the pseudonym Nguyen Thi Hoa, once had another husband but he died after she gave birth to her son.
See the full article from “Xinhua”
Beijing Escorts: China unveils rare star power of Oscar entry
BEIJING (Reuters) – Zhang Yimou, one of China’s best-known directors, is banking on heartthrob Christian Bale to help boost the country’s chances of winning an Oscar, with his latest film on a tragic chapter in the nation’s history.
“The Flowers of War,” China’s Academy Award entry for best foreign language film, centres around a mortician (Bale) who gets caught up in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and has to save a group of school girls from the clutches of the Japanese.
On the way he becomes involved with a high-class Chinese courtesan, finding both love and personal redemption.
The film, which hits Chinese screens on Friday followed a week later by a limited release in the United States, holds little back in its graphic depiction of the events of more than eight decades ago, a story everyone in China knows well.
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Sino-Japanese ties have been overshadowed for years by what Beijing says has been Tokyo’s refusal to admit to atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in the country between 1931 and 1945.
See the full article from “Reuters UK”
Beijing Escorts: China unveils rare star power of Oscar entry
British actor Christian Bale (L) and Chinese director Zhang Yimou attend the premiere of ”The Flowers of War” in Beijing December 11, 2011. Credit: Reuters/China Daily
BEIJING (Reuters) – Zhang Yimou, one of China’s best-known directors, is banking on heartthrob Christian Bale to help boost the country’s chances of winning an Oscar, with his latest film on a tragic chapter in the nation’s history.
“The Flowers of War,” China’s Academy Award entry for best foreign language film, centers around a mortician (Bale) who gets caught up in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and has to save a group of school girls from the clutches of the Japanese.
On the way he becomes involved with a high-class Chinese courtesan, finding both love and personal redemption.
…
Sino-Japanese ties have been overshadowed for years by what Beijing says has been Tokyo’s refusal to admit to atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in the country between 1931 and 1945.
See the full article from “Reuters”
Beijing Escorts: China unveils rare star power of Oscar entry
China unveils rare star power of Oscar entry
Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:31am EST
By Ben Blanchard
BEIJING (Reuters) – Zhang Yimou, one of China’s best-known directors, is banking on heartthrob Christian Bale to help boost the country’s chances of winning an Oscar, with his latest film on a tragic chapter in the nation’s history.
“The Flowers of War,” China’s Academy Award entry for best foreign language film, centers around a mortician (Bale) who gets caught up in the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and has to save a group of school girls from the clutches of the Japanese.
On the way he becomes involved with a high-class Chinese courtesan, finding both love and personal redemption.
The film, which hits Chinese screens on Friday followed a week later by a limited release in the United States, holds little back in its graphic depiction of the events of more than eight decades ago, a story everyone in China knows well.
See the full article from “Reuters Canada”
Beijing Adult Entertainment: China Leader Warns About Unrest Due To Economy
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese leadership’s law-and-order czar is warning that China is ill-prepared for social unrest generated by changes in the economy, in the latest sign that the government is worried about the consequences of flagging growth.
The government needs better methods for dealing with “the negative effects” of the economy, Politburo member Zhou Yongkang said in remarks to provincial officials Friday that were published Saturday by the official Xinhua News Agency. Zhou called for innovative approaches to social management — a euphemism for a clutch of policies as diverse as stepped-up policing and unemployment insurance meant to dampen unrest.
“Especially when facing the negative effects of the market economy, we still have not formed a complete mechanism for social management,” Zhou said. How to do so, he said, “is the great and urgent task before us.”
See the full article from “Salon”
Beijing Escorts: Increase in women smuggled into China, sex slaves or sold as wives
The young girls come from various countries of South-East Asia, including Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos. Attracted by the promise of a job by criminal groups, they are sold into prostitution or as wives. The phenomenon is the result of one-child policy imposed by Beijing, which has caused enormous gender disproportion.
See the full article from “AsiaNews.it”
Beijing Adult Entertainment: ‘Buy my book’ official accused of taking bribes
A court in Beijing heard that Zhang Jingli, 56, had accepted bribes of more than 1.17 million yuan (US$184,145) from 2003 to 2010 when he was deputy director of the State Food and Drug Administration.
Prosecutors said Zhang gained most of the money by having companies buy his book – “Shou Shi Bu Yuan,” a guide to health using traditional methods – which he was not licensed to publish and sell. The court heard that overall sales of the book, which cost 368 yuan, had raised more than 16 million yuan.
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Zhang was accused of living a “decadent life” by the discipline inspection commission in January when he was formally arrested. He was caught in a video in steamy scenes at Beijing’s infamous Heaven on Earth nightclub featuring high-end prostitutes.
See the full article from “China.org.cn”
Beijing Adult Entertainment: More women kidnapped for brides
BEIJING – China is witnessing an increasing number of foreign women who have been cheated, kidnapped and smuggled into the country, a senior official has said.
Most of these women are from rural areas in Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos. They eagerly want to find jobs in China or marry rich Chinese men to escape poverty, Chen Shiqu, director of the Ministry of Public Security’s anti-human trafficking office, told China Daily in an exclusive interview.
“The number of foreign women trafficked to China is definitely rising,” Chen said, without disclosing how many women have been rescued by Chinese police nationally.
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The victims are often sold in rural Chinese areas as brides of local villagers, or forced to provide sex services in underground prostitution dens in China’s coastal or border areas such as Yunnan and Guangdong provinces, or Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, he said.
See the full article from “People’s Daily Online”
Beijing Adult Entertainment: Progress made in HIV/AIDS campaign
The advocate: ‘Common people’ deserving rights
Zhang Beichuan is passionate about his work to contain the spread of HIV/AIDS, even though many people think he’s mentally disturbed because he meets with gay men and prostitutes every day.
See the full article from “Chinadaily USA”