Jet Li embraces the &#39;Hero&#39; inside
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No wonder a marketing-savvy movie publicist renamed him after a speeding plane when his career took off 24 years ago in Asia. Martial-arts film phenom Jet Li gets so animated
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Chinese martial-arts film &quot;Hero,&quot; starring Jet Li, sliced up the competition at North Americabox office, taking in 18 million US dollars in the passing weekend, according to final studio figures Monday.
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All it took to beat back Satan and an army of oversized snakes at the box office was some Zen-like concentration. Quentin Tarantino may be the real hero of the #1 Jet Li film &quot;Hero.
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They say the way to a man&#39;s heart is through his stomach, but when that man is Russian President Vladimir Putin, laying on a first-rate meal becomes an affair of state.
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Chinese director Zhang Yimou talks about his latest films, Hero and House Of Flying Daggers.
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China&#39;s Olympic athletes, who won a record 32 gold medals in Athens, arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to a hero&#39;s welcome from dozens of dancers, drummers, a brass band and throngs of wellwishers.
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Family and friends remember actor Christopher Reeve at a private ceremony at his New York home.
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State-owned, running a monopoly on imports of jet fuel to China&#39;s fast-growing aviation industry and a prized member of Singapore&#39;s Stock Exchange.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao has extended his sincere condolences to the relatives of the passengers and crew members that died during an air crash in north China.
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BEIJING - President Hu Jintao on Sunday marked the centenary of the birth of late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping by praising him as the father of the country&#39;s economic reforms and opening up to the outside world.
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BEIJING, China -- China has hailed its late former leader Den Xiaoping on the 100th anniversary of his birth. President Hu Jintao praised Deng as a man who made the people&#39;s interests a priority.
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North Korea&#39;s Parliament head Kim Yong Nam, right, inspects a guard of honor with Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People&#39;s Congress, during a welcome ceremony in Beijing, China, Monday, Oct. 18, 2004.
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The Department of Civil Aviation Dubai, last night welcomed the inaugural Air China flight CA 941 from Beijing to Dubai International Airport.
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The Chinese martial arts epic Hero, starring Jet Li, takes top spot at the box office in the US and Canada.
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Jet Li says goodbye (supposedly) to the martial arts genre with this decent blend of old-school chopsocky and new school superproduction.
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They were greeted at Beijing airport by a senior party leader, a brass band and a traditional drum and cymbal troop, as well as crowds of well-wishers.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on the afternoon of November 1. Hu Jintao said, as an