Burmese Tycoon Eyes Big Screen As Hollywood Hails The Lady

In 2008, Burma’s longest imprisoned political prisoner was about to be released. But Win Tin, who served 20 years in jail, 19 of them in solitary confinement, refused to hand over his blue shirt, part of the prison uniform. He would wear the shirt, he told the jail’s governor, in solidarity with the other prisoners and if it was taken off him he would go out naked. Win Tin was allowed to keep the shirt.

The hugely controversial Myitsone dam in northern Burma, currently under construction by the China Power Investment Corporation, was the subject of a 2009 internal report by the company, which called for the project to be scrapped. The Environmental Impact Assessment report has nevertheless been ignored, and work is proceeding on the project, the Democratic Voice of Burma Online reported. 

Hong Kong's billionaire tycoons enjoy a status close to royalty in Asia's wealth-obsessed financial hub.The city's richest man Li Ka-shing has the fame of a movie star, while the court case involving the will of eccentric pig-tailed billionaire Nina Wang last year enthralled Hong Kong with its brew of sex, money and power.But Wang's death in 2007 and the hospitalisation last year of casino tycoon Stanley Ho were a stark reminder that some of Hong Kong's 40 richest tycoons -- synonymous with its post-war economic success -- are in their twilight years.

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YANGON, Burma — Burma’s government warned Monday that religious violence could threaten democratic reforms after anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in the country’s predominantly Buddhist heartland. The mobs destroyed mosques and burned dozens of homes over the weekend despite attempts by the government to stem the nation’s latest outbreak of sectarian violence.

One of Hong Kong's richest property tycoons will hand out a bonus worth $2 million to his 1,500 staff after his actress daughter-in-law gave birth to his sixth grandchild, his firm said Wednesday.Lee Shau-kee, chairman of the leading property group Henderson Land Development, announced the windfall of HK$10,000 ($1,285) for employees to celebrate the baby boy who was born last week, said spokeswoman Bonnie Ngan.