Hint of orgies, swinging and very graphic sex scenes drew scores of Hong Kong moviegoers to the opening of what is being billed as the world’s first 3D porn film. According to the AFP, the $3.2-million “3-D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy” opened to packed cinemas across Hong Kong on Thursday. Based on a classic…
Anyone who read “The Yacoubian Building”, a novel published in 2002 by Egyptian author Alaa Al Aswany, will regard the revolution in Egypt as long overdue. The novel’s readers will not have been astonished by the ease with which the rotting hulk of Hosni Mubarak’s regime was dashed against the rocks, nor by the spirit…
Decisions to buy gold, silver and oil against terrifyingly inflationary floods of money
THE ASIAN WAY: Special Feature by Stephen Roach What a contrast! This was my first trip back to Asia after having spent three years living in the region. I returned to the United States a couple of months ago with enormous respect for how Asia had pulled itself together after its own devastating crisis in…
HONG KONG.- No other wine has captured the imagination of the Chinese wine connoisseur like Château Lafite-Rothschild. From the high-end restaurants that line Beijing’s Dongcheng District to Shanghai’s Three on the Bund Complex, Lafite is a name that inspires a hushed reverence. So it is fitting that on 29 October 2010, Sotheby’s Hong Kong is…
The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This new world is not — and will not be —…