Cold War movie

Cold War is a film set in Hong Kong and directed by Sunny Luk Kim-ching and Longman Leung Lok-man. Starring Tony Leung Ka-fai and Aaron Kwok, the plot centres around attempts to locate a hijacked police van containing five officers. Cold War was born out of his and Leung's fixation on the political manoeuvres of Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Democratic primaries for the 2008 US presidential election. Release date: November 2012.

'I am very lucky': Tony Leung Ka-fai on the three women in his life

11 Oct 2012

They say behind every great man there is a great woman - and award-winning Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Ka-fai has revealed he has three.

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Hong Kong thriller opens Asia’s top film festival

4 Oct 2012

A glittering line-up of top Asian cinema stars converged on the South Korean port city of Busan on Thursday for the opening of the Busan International Film Festival, which was launched with the ...

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Government HQ at Admiralty gets first film role in Cold War

1 Oct 2012

Towards the end of the shoot for their directorial debut, Cold War, Sunny Luk Kim-ching and Longman Leung Lok-man had a problem - they had run out of time and money to film a huge passing-out...

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Berlin wall escapee billed as dead for 31 years is alive and well

15 Aug 2012

For 31 years, Rene Seiptius had been counted among the thousands of people killed while trying to escape the confines of communist East Germany. As it turns out, he was alive all along.

"I...

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Piecing together the Pacific pivot

15 Jul 2012

The military elements underpinning the US tilt back towards the Asian region are fast moving into place.

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US provides fertile ground for ambition - at a price

2 Jun 2012

A while back, when I was visiting my mother's ancestral village in Thai Binh province, North Vietnam, it occurred to me that, after a barrage of questions from distant relatives, not once did...

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Opinion

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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Booby traps

It is fitting that you can form the word 'trap' out of transparency.

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Ballad of the Little Soldier

In his five-decade-long career as a filmmaker, Werner Herzog has been called an iconoclast, a humanist, even a madman.

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Let's promote second world war sites

I am writing in response to the letter 'Government could do more to promote important second world war sites' (South China Morning Post, December 28).

I agree it is important to...

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Playing it cool

Chinese leaders have finally realised that they are facing a new cold war.

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Questions over boat ramming by Vietnam

It may be fuelling online rage and diplomatic intrigue, but recently released YouTube footage showing a Vietnamese ship harassing a Chinese Marine Surveillance vessel in the South China Sea is...

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China, Vietnam seal accord over maritime territory

China and Vietnam have agreed to seek a long-term resolution to a territorial dispute in the South China Sea that has stoked tensions between the two countries.

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