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...leak. But as the last bodies were still being pulled from the wreckage, an opposition senator - himself on trial for leading an attempted coup against Arroyo in 2003 - accused members of her Cabinet of orchestrating the blast in order to distract attention from a scandal allegedly involving bags of cash handed out at the presidential palace to lawmakers...
...country that often seems still to be feeling the long hangover from Marcos' kleptocracy - if not for a concurrent scandal allegedly involving payouts to lawmakers. On Oct. 15, a provincial governor - and former parish priest - said that he and other lawmakers had been handed paper bags full of cash during an Oct. 11 breakfast meeting at the presidential palace. The administration has denied the money came from Arroyo. Two weeks after the alleged handouts, the country's League of Provinces, a lobbying group of governors, admitted giving the cash for what they described as development initiatives. Arroyo's critics, however...
...Chinese art or Indian art is too expensive, so maybe we'll try looking in Vietnam,'" says Suzanne Lecht, the American director of the Art Vietnam Gallery in Hanoi. "Artists who could barely afford anything a few years ago can now drive luxury cars." But the rapid cash inflow has put commercial pressure on these artists to churn out foreigner-friendly images that don't stretch their imaginations. Many galleries are complicit, preferring to stock interchangeable images of women in conical hats strolling past crumbling French architecture. "Art students know they can make a good living painting these themes," says...
...government realizes art has commercial value, so it's become just another object to sell." The Beijing government, for instance, is hyping a factory district turned contemporary-arts enclave called Dashanzi as a must-see destination for Olympics tourists. But with so much foreign - and even some local - cash being injected into the Asian art world, it can be difficult for an artist to deviate from a successful formula. "When I started painting landscapes, people would say, 'But those might not sell as well as your mask series,'" recalls Zeng, whose latest works, part of a recent solo exhibition...
...says that he's considered kidnapping children for ransom in order to pay off $500,000 in gambling debts. Tan has heard these stories before. He listens patiently and delivers a PowerPoint presentation about coping with addiction. "Don't read the racing papers and don't carry too much cash," he warns. "And stay out of the casinos...