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Michel Gondry directs this mega-budget superhero action film
starring Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz, based on the 1960s television
series starring Bruce Lee. Britt Reid (Rogen), son and heir to the
biggest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who
has hitherto led a charmed but directionless existence. But after
the death of his father (Tom Wilkinson), Britt joins forces with
company employee and martial arts expert Kato (Jay Chou) to fight
crime across the city as masked superhero The Green Hornet. Armed
with their super-powered automobile The Black Beauty, the pair set
out to take down the dastardly Chudnofsky (Christoph Waltz), a
kingpin of the criminal underworld who plans to unite the various
gangs of the city in an attempt to eliminate The Green Hornet.
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Now You See Me 2 (DVD)
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Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco return to reprise
their roles as criminal illusionists in this comedy crime drama. A
year on from their last daring heist, The Four Horsemen emerge from
hiding to expose the unethical practices of a corrupt tech magnate.
Unfortunately for them, they instead find themselves blackmailed
into stealing a powerful piece of technology by businessman Walter
Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe). Their quest to steal the decrypting
device known as 'The Stick' takes magicians Danny (Eisenberg),
Merritt (Harrelson), Jack (Franco) and their new partner Lula
(Lizzy Caplan) across the globe as they try to pull off another
elaborate life-or-death illusion, with help from their FBI insider
Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo). The cast also includes Morgan Freeman,
Jay Chou, Sanaa Lathan and Michael Caine.
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True Legend (Chinese, DVD)
Man Cheuk Chiu, Xun Zhou, Michelle Yeoh, Xiaogang Feng, Andy On, …
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Chinese martial arts drama. Su Can (Vincent Zhao) retires as a
military general so he can start a family with his wife, Yuan Ying
(Zhou Xun). Six years later, Su Can's jealous half-brother, Yuang
(Andy On), abducts his son. Su Can becomes depressed but when he
hears his son is alive and in need of assistance, he rises to the
challenge, perfecting his fighting skills, which include 'The
Drunken Fist' move, to ensure he will be able to save his son.
This book explores options for economic and social institutional
reform in Korea. It emphasizes the importance of Korea's cultural
heritage-not only in explaining the nation's recent growth but also
as a key element of its continued success.
Over the past three decades, South Korea has moved along a path of
strong economic growth and political democratization, attracting
worldwide attention and providing valuable lessons for other
developing economies. Yet Korea still must grapple with many
intractable problems fueled by its rapid industrialization and
uneven growth, including unbalanced distribution of wealth,
concentrated economic power, and adversarial relationships between
management and labor. Within the context of these sweeping changes,
this volume explores options for economic and social institutional
reform in Korea. Drawing on models of economic development from
Japan, the United States, and Europe, a distinguished group of
Asian and Western scholars relates the experiences of previously
industrialized economies to each facet of Koreas economic system,
including national management; taxation and banking; land ownership
and use; trade and industrial strategy; and relations among
business ownership, management, and labor. In so doing, the
contributors provide valuable insights and fresh proposals for a
viable model of social and economic modernization. Throughout the
volume, the contributors emphasize the importance of Koreas
cultural heritage-not only in explaining the nations recent growth
but also as a key element of its continued success. By providing an
overview of the evolution and interaction of Korean economic,
political, and sociocultural institutions, the contributors make
clear how these structures mediate the movement between cultural
values and economic progress.
The Conference on Demography of Incomplete Data: Own Children
Methodology, Past and Present was organized by the Northeast Asia
Economic Forum (NEAEF) in collaboration with the East-West Center
and the College of Social Sciences of the University of Hawai‘i
at Mānoa, in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, on 2 July 2018, in view of
continuing and expanding activities in the use of the methodology
in new areas such as the European countries as well as in
historical demography. The own-children methodology for estimating
fertility has a long history going back to the 1960s and has been
applied in an increasing number of countries and areas globally for
which the census and survey data are available. In assessing the
methodological paper "The Own-Children Approach to Fertility
Estimation: An Elaboration," by Lee-Jay Cho, the United Nations
Manual X: Indirect Techniques for Demographic Estimation stated
that "probably the greatest innovation introduced by the proponents
of the own-children method is the exploitation of seldom-used
census information for fertility estimation purposes." In the
course of the numerous applications beginning with the United
States for the countries of East and Southeast Asia and the
Pacific, such as Korea, Japan, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia, the
own-children method was extended, improved, and elaborated by
demographers at the East-West Population Institute (EWPI), and in
1987 resulted in the publication of a long-enduring volume The
Own-Children Method of Fertility Estimation by Lee-Jay Cho, Robert
Retherford, and Minja Choe. Subsequent methodological extensions
and refinements were made possible with Norman Luther and others.
The Conference highlighted historical background, expanding
applications, and most recent developments in the own-children
methodology, and at the same time celebrated the success and
sustainability of the methodology achieved by the contributions of
those dedicated demographers cited in this proceedings volume.
The papers in this volume overview the patterns of industrial
globalization in a select number of industries: electronics,
automobiles, heavy industry, and chemicals and pharmaceuticals. The
narrative proceeds with a discussion on how FDI and global
production networks--two specific forms of industrial
globalization--contribute to industrial upgrading, followed by
three case studies detailing the experiences of Ireland, Singapore,
and the United Kingdom in inducing FDI inflows.
China, Japan, and South Korea constitute one of the most dynamic
economic regions in the world, but it is a region where formal
regional machinery is yet to be realized. The establishment of an
information infrastructure, energy community, and institution for
financing infrastructure investment for the region are discussed in
this volume.
The Asian economic crisis drew attention to the urgent need for
reforming social welfare programs. Korea survived the brunt of the
economic crisis, but is still faced with numerous socioeconomic
problems that emerged during and after the crisis period. This book
offers a comparative review of these problems and of welfare
reforms that have already been tried, together with proposals for
reforms that could be introduced to guarantee the the most
important human needs.
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