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...pictures shows a younger Fu with her daughter, her son, his friend and the life-size Disney dog, Pluto, at Walt Disney World. Fu, smiling broadly, looks straight at the camera—and at her husband, Yang Jianli, who is behind...
...including the Miami Heat’s distribution of fortune cookies to fans when the Rockets were in town, as well as the endlessly reported Yao-Shaq exchange of words. (When asked his thoughts on Yao, Shaq responded, “Tell Yao Ming, ‘Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh’”). Yao has handled his time in the NBA with a grace and charm that makes advertisers giddy and supporters proud...
...even dealt deftly with his first media mini-controversy. Last summer Shaquille O'Neal asked a reporter to "tell Yao Ming, 'Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.'" In an Asian Week column early last month, the remarks were repeated, and Yao was asked for a response. Tongue in cheek, he said that Chinese was a hard language to learn. (To defuse any controversy, Yao had also sent Shaq a Christmas card, not a typical Chinese gesture.) Before the two played in Houston later in January, Shaq apologized, using the Mandarin dui bu qi. Yao invited Shaq to his home...
...ARRESTED. YANG WEN, 25, a mainland Chinese man; for last November's murder in Hong Kong of well-known businessman Henry Lam; in Hunan province, China. Lam, a director of one of Asia's largest golf resorts, Shenzhen's Mission Hills Golf Club, was shot dead while eating breakfast at his regular teahouse. Local media reported that he was having business difficulties on the mainland...
Sung Chul Yang, the South Korean ambassador to the U.S., spoke of a “consistent signal” from North Korea that he said indicated the nation’s desire to emerge from isolation and gain international respect. Yang said these signals included a failed attempt last summer to introduce market systems in the communist country and formal, amicable communications with regional powers...