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...years past, for injections of energy, Cannes would have looked to Europe, Latin America and Hollywood (or the off-Hollywood of independent U.S. films). But not to Asia. Throughout the '80s and '90s, everyone knew that movies from Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea and Thailand were unmatched for cinematic vigor?everyone, that is, except the tastemakers at Cannes and a few other highfalutin festivals. The Asian films they imprimatured tended to be the pensive sort that wore Art on their embroidered sleeves. It was as if the French wanted only those films that imitated the European Minimalist style rather...
...Thailand's government came one step closer to owning part of English Premier League football team Liverpool last week, with an agreement to buy 30% of the club for $106 million now looking "more than 90%" likely, according to a Thai negotiator. Stalwarts may grumble about the incursion of foreigners (like Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, right), but the Liverpool deal would be just the latest indication of how valuable Asia has become to the finances of football...
...shows fishermen slicing fins off sharks and kicking them back into the sea to die. The ads also warn that fins might be contaminated with mercury. The campaign has been a surprising success, says Steven Galster, director of WildAid's Southeast Asia office, who cites a recent survey in Thailand in which 32% of the respondents said they had given up the pricey delicacy. "Sharks," he admits, "usually don't elicit much sympathy...
...staged videos and faked photos of dying sharks. To TIME, he also claimed that Galster must have doctored the samples he sent to the lab to test for mercury (all of which Galster denies). Later, outside the courtroom, Lau seethed: "Foreigners shouldn't be allowed to come to Thailand and say anything they want. This is our culture, and you can't change...
...most successful of the Olympic-tech companies is Switzerland-based Dartfish, whose training software, including Dartswim, is used by athletes in more than 20 countries, including Germany, Thailand and Venezuela. In the U.S., some two dozen Olympic sports use Dartfish. The technology helped athletes worldwide win 45 medals in the 2002 Winter Games, according to Victor Bergonzoli, general manager of the company's U.S. unit. "There are about half a dozen similar programs," says Mike Leigh, a technologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs, Colo., who has worked in sports science for 20 years. "But none works better...