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Write about what you know. That was advice Jane Austen heeded when she bucked the trend of prevailing novels of her time that were written by men, mostly on wars set in far-flung places. This wisdom also guides director and screenwriter Jessey Tsang Tsui Shan who captured what she knows best in her documentary-style film Big Blue Lake. And, like Austen's seminal works, this film is a little story that resonates big. Those expecting a stereotypical Hong Kong bang-bang triad movie will be disappointed.
Sunday Digest
YIMA, Henan - Rescuers had pulled all 52 survivors to safety by Saturday morning, nearly 40 hours after a massive cave-in destroyed a mineshaft in Central China's Henan province.
Sunday Special
When Dr Lynne DiStefano, adjunct professor and former director of The University of Hong Kong's Architectural Conservation Program, first arrived in Hong Kong from Canada in 1997, she bumped into a colleague in the hallways of the faculty and asked him a question.
Sunday People
It was in 1955 at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw that Vladimir Ashkenazy came to prominence on the world stage and went on to become one of the most renowned and revered pianists of our time. He currently spends more time conducting than playing, still very much involved with orchestras around the world.
Sunday Expat
Profit is not a dirty word for Alia Malik, who is turning a penny or three as she helps the less fortunate. The co-founder and director of Shangrila Farms, which sells homegrown organic honey, coffee and skincare products, has spent the past two years building an enterprise that gives rural people the chance to be involved in fair-trade business.
Sunday Image
'They have a long journey to get to the place of the gods," says Paola Guajardo, thoughtfully tucking a pack of cigarettes next to a glittering sugar cake.
Sunday Sports
With the NBA on hold, at least there's still plenty to look forward to from NCAA hoops
Sunday Life
It was a project so audacious that it took 100 curators four years to complete it. The goal: to tell the history of the world through 100 objects culled from the British Museum's sprawling collections. After four years, the result was unveiled on a BBC Radio 4 program in early 2010.
Science and Technology
DUSSELDORF, Germany - The Deutsche Post office across from the train station here offers DVDs, umbrellas, phone cards and toys - with the processing of mail appearing nearly an afterthought. And the facility housing it is not a post office at all. It occupies a corner space in a bank.
Lifestyle Trends
Naturalists have long marveled at the shell of the chambered nautilus. The logarithmic spiral echoes the curved arms of hurricanes and distant galaxies. In Italy, the Medicis turned the pearly shells into ornate ornaments.
Arts and Styles
LOS ANGELES - The line between art and commerce can be a scary place.
Sunday Food
It's a balmy autumn afternoon, with boats out on the wind-swept Houhai Lake, and waterside bars and restaurants spilling tables right to the banks. The ambiance is idyllic.
Sunday Style
Kate Middleton certainly epitomized the princess bride, but her look isn't for every woman headed down the aisle. In fact, many brides are abandoning any trace of a fairy-tale motif in order to maintain their everyday sense of style.
Sunday Kaleidoscope
Sioma Lifshitz boarded a ship to Shanghai in 1922, a 20-year-old Russian Jew coming to China empty-handed. Thirty years later when he left for Israel, he carried in his luggage more than 20,000 photographs that he took in Shanghai.
Sunday Travel
Recently I embarked on a five-week backpacking trip through China's heartland, beginning in Shaanxi province through Sichuan all the way to the doorstep of Tibet, then made my way to Yunnan province.
