Suspect in US model murder found dead in Canada

A reality TV star wanted for the brutal murder of his bikini model ex-wife in California has been found dead in a motel near Vancouver.

Faust at Lowland Hall, Ingliston

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Benedict Nightingale

If a modern Bosch were painting Hell, it would very likely turn out the way that the Romanian director Silviu Purcarete imagines it, or Faust’s vision of it, in the adaptation of Goethe he’s brought to an exhibition hall near Edinburgh airport.
We’re summoned from our seats by actors in hog masks and taken behind [...]

Katie Jarvis on Fish Tank and sudden success

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Essex actress Katie Jarvis, spotted at Tilbury Town station, stars in Andrea Arnold movie and shares Johnny Depp’s agent
Lesley White

I had feared that Katie Jarvis might be hard work, restless, stroppy, even a little scary. The character she plays in Andrea Arnold’s new film, Fish Tank, is all of those things, after all, and Jarvis [...]

Private Equity Firms in China in the Firing Line

By Peter Fuhrman
Ratcheting Up the Criticism of Performance Ratchets in China
In an interesting discussion a couple of weeks ago in Shenzhen with a very smart and capable lawyer (Ke Luo of Fangda Partners), I learned about a small, but growing backlash against the Top Tier private equity firms working China. Evidently there have been some [...]

More Lead Poisoning in Central cities

A day after authorities in the northwest province of Shaanxi reported a significant increase in the number of children poisoned by lead discharge from a local smelter.

The alternative economy booming among artists

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Despite a collapsing art market, many artists are sitting on a small fortune thanks to work they’ve acquired as gifts
Francesca Lowe

For a brief moment it looked as if the sinking ship of the economy might not drag the art market down with it. The success of Damien Hirst’s audacious sale at Sotheby’s last September, which [...]

Suspect in model’s murder found dead in Canada

(CNN) — Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a reality TV contestant who is suspected in his wife’s slaying in California, was found dead in a hotel in British Columbia, Canadian authorities announced Sunday.
The nude body of Jenkins’ wife, former swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore, was found last weekend in Orange County, California. CNN has not confirmed reports that [...]

Beijing Frees Jailed Activist Xu Zhiyong

Chinese authorities unexpectedly freed from jail a prominent legal activist on Sunday after an increasingly vocal campaign against his detention by China’s growing ranks of citizen activists.

Obama to Visit China in November

President Barack Obama will visit China for the first time in November, the new U.S. ambassador said Saturday。

NKorea’s Kim wants summit with SKorea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has sent word that he wants to hold a summit with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in the latest sign of easing tensions between the divided nations, news reports said Monday.
Kim’s envoy proposed the summit during a rare meeting Sunday, and Lee told the envoy that he would be [...]