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Dreamworks
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DreamWorks in Bollywood deal
TVNZ
Aug 27, 2008 11:14 AM | Indian media company Reliance ADA Group's expected deal to finance a new incarnation of the DreamWorks film studio signals broader changes for Bollywood moviemakers looking to reach Western audiences, experts said. | The United States and India are the world's largest film pr...
Indian actors, from left to right, Shreyas Talpade, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukkone and Arjun Rampal
(photo: AP / Nathan Strange)
'SRK's a great guy, so’s Hrithik’
The Times of India
| 27 Aug 2008, 0000 hrs IST, TANVI TRIVEDI ,TNN             Ramp scorcher, heartbreaker, film producer, doting dad, loving husband and actor. Sounds too many words for one man? | Believe it those words are best suited to describe Arjun Rampal. From being a dashing goodl...
Is that Harry or Hari?
Canada Dot Com
| MUMBAI, India - Hollywood's Warner Bros., which owns the rights to the Harry Potter movies, is suing an Indian production company whose new film is called "Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors," the studio said on Wednesday. | The studio had started pr...
Warner Bros. sues over Puttar film
Canada Dot Com
Published: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 | MUMBAI, India - Hollywood's Warner Bros., which owns the rights to the Harry Potter movies, is suing an Indian production company whose new film is called "Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors," the studio said on...
HTNG's first Asia-Pacific conference to highlight future trends and Asian issues
TravelDailyNews
Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) announced yesterday the program for its first Asia-Pacific Members' Meeting and Conference, to be held on September 22 and 23, 2008, at the Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel. | "Asia is the biggest growth market for ...
Africa news round-up: 27.8.08
The Guardian
Help in Uganda for internally displaced people and concern over the number of Chinese workers in the continent – it's our weekly round-up of news from Africa | A Chinese engineer with Sudanese workers in Khartoum. Chinese investment in Africa has b...
Dancers wait their turn to perform at the National Stadium during the closing ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Beijing, Sunday, Aug. 24, 2008.
AP / Silvia Izquierdo
BEIJING 2008: CHINA'S UNEASY PUBLIC ORDER Too much perfection for one bathroom
Globe and Mail
| -- It has been a grand couple of weeks. | There is no denying that what International Olympic Committee boss Jacques Rogge told the proud residents of this city at the closing ce...
Olympics / wam2
GFDL / Mb.matt
Beijing Olympics 2008: Two weeks that changed British sport forever
The Daily Mail
| A London mayor who can post Eton, Oxford and The Spectator on his CV took the Olympic flag from a Chinese counterpart who was a Communist enforcer in Tibet and remains a major pl...
Desert - Inner Mongolia - china
Creative Commons
Greener China after Olympics
Canada Dot Com
| BEIJING -- The Gobi wants to swallow Beijing. You need only travel to this little-known spot in China, called "the flying desert,'' to see that fact. | Huge dunes suddenly rise o...
The return of Northern Soul
The Times
| Next month it will be 35 years since Russ Winstanley booked Wigan Casino for its first Northern Soul all-nighter, starting at 2am on a Sunday morning. The faithful paid 75p each to dance until 8am to rare black American records - and though the pri...
'SRK's a great guy, so’s Hrithik’
The Times of India
| 27 Aug 2008, 0000 hrs IST, TANVI TRIVEDI ,TNN             Ramp scorcher, heartbreaker, film producer, doting dad, loving husband and actor. Sounds too many words for one man? | Believe it those words are best suited to...
Now films on men's sexuality
The Times of India
| 27 Aug 2008, 0000 hrs IST, DEEPALI DHINGRA ,TNN             How often have you seen a woman getting raped in a Hindi film? | Can’t keep count, right? But a man getting raped in a Hindi film? Or a man prostituting him...
Art & Culture
Abhinav Bindra of India looks at his gold medal after the men's 10m air rifle final shooting competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
(photo: Public Domain)
India's shooting champion urges greater professionalism
The Times of India
| 27 Aug 2008, 1126 hrs IST,REUTERS                   NEW DELHI: India's Olympic shooting champion Abhinav Bindra has urged sports administrators to adopt a more professional approach to help the country build on the three medals it won at the Beijing Games. | Bindra became India's first individual ...
Asia Fashion
Reebok -Sportswear(sk1)
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Reebok India plans 55 more Classic stores by year end
The Times of India
|                 NEW DELHI: Footwear and apparel major Reebok is planning to open 55 additional stores of its exclusive lifestyle brand Reebok Classics in the country by end of the current fiscal year. | "We have already opened 20 Reebok Classics stores till now in key cities of NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, ...
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