Huangpu is a district of pigeon fanciers and the skies over Shanghai have seen birds racing back to their coops for the best part of a century. Words and pictures by Jonathan Browning.
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22/03: Jackie's out of action
Dec 19, 2011
Fed up with stereotypical Hollywood cop roles, Jackie Chan's content acting in Asian movies - productions like new release "Shinjuku Incident". He tells the SCMP that he's on a quest to be a \"true actor\" and the region's equivalent of Robert De Niro.
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