China Sends 30 To Prison In Tibet Riots
The sentences are the first punishments meted out to those accused of taking part in last month’s riots....
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Crackdown Ahead Of China’s Party Congress
All news is good news this week. China’s ruling Communist Party is determined to make sure that its five-yearly congress goes without a hitch and is remembered as a glorious moment in its ...
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Music Review | Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin: Torn Between Two Eras
The Akademie’s fine 16-person period-instrument group had many surprises on Wednesday....
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Jagjit Singh Chauhan, Sikh Militant Leader In India, Dies At 80
Mr. Chauhan began a campaign to create an independent state of Sikhs and was charged with sedition and other crimes in connection with his activities....
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Watchdog Says BSkyB Should Cut ITV Stake
BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster, should cut its stake in ITV to less than 7.5 per cent because the shareholding reduces competition in the all-TV market and works against the public interest, t...
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Entertainment News

Screenwriters Take to Picket Lines as Strike Begins
2007-11-06 05:43 - Talks between the writers? unions and producers failed to avert a strike over payments for new media, among other issues.

In Stetson or Wig, He’s Hard to Pin Down
2007-11-05 06:01 - Heath Ledger loses himself in Todd Haynes’s menagerie of Dylan impersonators.

Dot Earth: Who’s Predator, Who’s Prey?
2007-11-05 06:01 - The writer and producer of ?Sharkwater? wants people to begin to love sharks before they disappear.

Demon Barber, Meat Pies and All, Sings on Screen
2007-11-05 05:43 - Who but Tim Burton could turn Johnny Depp into a singing Sweeney Todd?

Rivers of Blood in a Winter Wonderland
2007-11-05 05:43 - ?There Will Be Blood? may be the title of a film opening the day after Christmas, but it could be the slogan for this entire holiday season.

The Little Gold Man Made Me Do It
2007-11-05 05:43 - Without Oscar hopes, a lot of movies would never get made.

It’s over, the fat man has sung
2007-11-04 06:01 - The Sopranos finale required imagination, writes Susan Brink.

With Resolution Unlikely, Writers Guild Sets Strike for Monday
2007-11-04 06:01 - Hollywood’s movie and television writers plan to embark on an industrywide strike for the first time since 1988.

Writers Set to Strike, Threatening Hollywood
2007-11-03 05:43 - Movie and television writers declared that they would embark on a strike for the first time since 1988.

Just say Cleese
2007-11-03 05:05 - The holy grail of musical success seems assured for Spamalot, much to the surprise of its on-stage deity. John Cleese tells Shaun Micallef why the re-imagining of some 34-year-old silliness still works on stage.


 
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