Cannes winner Park Chan-wook's movies have dealt with heavy topics like revenge and tensions between North and South Korea.
But his new film is a love story set in a mental institution, with one character under the delusion that she's a cyborg.
The acclaimed South Korean director said Monday the change in topic was refreshing.
"All the movies I've done in the past revolve a...
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The visit of the Korean president is the first of its kind. What are the dimensions and significance of this visit.
President Roh Moo-Hyun's visit to Qatar has a great significance for the two countries. It is the first visit by a Korean president to this country since the establishment of diplomatic relations in 1974. Relations between Korea and Qatar have, in recent times, witnessed ra...
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Former Prime Minister of Japan Yoshiro Mori, knight of the Russian Order of Friendship and co-chairman of the Russian-Japanese Council of Wise Men, announced the Council's end yesterday. Summing up its work during the forum "Russian-Japanese Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region under Conditions of Globalization" in Tokyo, Mori mentioned the slow dialogue between the young deputies of the Japan...
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Russian, Kazakh Leaders Discuss Energy, Nuclear Cooperation UN Chief Praises Saudi Peace Proposal, Calls Palestinian Coalition 'Disappointing' Iraqis Express Frustration as War Enters 5th Year
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Armenian counterpart on Monday formally opened the first Armenian section of a natural gas pipeline linking the two countries.
Ahmadine...
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MADRID (EJP)--- The foreign ministers of Spain and Israel were amongst the more prominent guests at the official opening of the Casa Sefarad-Israel (Sepharad-Israel House) in Madrid last month.
Miguel Angel Moratinos, the Spanish minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, and Tzipi Livni, his Israeli counterpart, both gave heartfelt speeches at the launch of the new institution which wa...
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Washington insider Richard V. Allen says it is "insulting" that New Zealand is so far down the queue for a free trade agreement with the US and Prime Minister Helen Clark must give the matter priority during her Washington visit this week. "It's high time."
He says Helen Clark could best use her time lobbying the Congress on New Zealand's behalf. "And if [New Zealand is such] 'very, ve...
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"I probably skipped more class than I should have — I spent a lot of fifth and sixth periods at the movies or at the beach," says Rebecca Sonnenshine about her years at Soquel High School in the late 1980s. "But," laughs the co-screenwriter of "American Zombie" — a "fictional documentary" about a group of high-functioning revenants and their struggles to gain acceptance in human soc...
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Helen Clark needs to muscle up to George Bush this week and directly push the case for a bilateral free trade deal with the United States.
Bush has just returned from Latin America where he offered a freer trade deal to Uruguay which, like New Zealand did not send troops to Iraq but, unlike New Zealand, did not help the US in Afghanistan in the long-running war on terror.
Uruguay, l...
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Helen Clark has the potential to pull off something spectacular when she meets counterpart George Bush this week. We should expect nothing less.
Despite one or two notorious gaffes, Clark is the most skilled diplomat ever to be prime minister. Reports last year about her potential to be UN secretary-general were true, and she would have done the job better than any of the alternatives, in...
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Speaking at the recent launch of the 15th Country Roads concert, CMF President and concert organiser, Feizal Samath spoke of the beginnings of the CMF and its role as an advocate for children in Sri Lanka. He said, ‘Our first concert was held in 1988 and was meant to be a one-off show but its phenomenal success led to a second show the following year with the support of UNICEF and thereaf...
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