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The Da Vinci Code opened in China
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Chinese
Ban Da Vinci Code Movie
June 8, 2006
BEIJING- Officials in the country said the
move was to make way for local Chinese films to be shown during the
peak summer viewing period...
Source: BBC News
Musicians
Teach the World to Talk
June 7, 2006
FEZ- The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music
is an ambitious attempt to combine musical excellence with debates
about globalisation and international issues…
Source: BBC News
Indonesia
Second Playboy Edition Hits Stands
June 7, 2006
JAKARTA – The second edition of Playboy
Indonesia hit the stands Wednesday, June 7, two months after massive
and sometimes violent protests in the world's most populous Muslim
nations over its debut.
Source: Islamonline.net
Muslims
Craft their Own Video Games
June 4, 2006
DAMASCUS - Inside the frosted glass doors
of Afkar Media, located in Damascus's newly-built free-zone, software
developers are trying to rebuild a civilization inside a video game.
Set to be released in September, "Al-Quraysh" is a strategy
game that tells the story of the first 100 years of Islam's history
from the viewpoint of four different nations - Bedouins, Arabs,
Persians, and Romans…
Source: USA Today
Egypt
Seizes 2,000 'Da Vinci Code' DVDs
June 3, 2006
CAIRO - Police seized 2,000 pirated DVDs of
"The Da Vinci Code" on Saturday, and the Egyptian Coptic
Christian church demanded the film be banned in Egypt. The film has
not been shown here and the government has not yet decided whether to
permit it. Police arrested the owner of a local movie production
company when they discovered he had 2,000 pirated DVDs of the film, a
police source said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was
not authorized to talk to the media…
Source: Yahoo! News
Warner
Classics to Cease as an Active Label
June 2, 2006
LONDON- Warner Classics is being rolled
into Rhino, Warner's reissue division, though it is unclear at the
moment of the parent company's ambitions in the classical music world.
This move by Warner reduces the so-called majors in the classical
record arena to just EMI, Universal and Sony-BMG…
Source: Gramophine.co.uk
Anger
Over Red Sea Ferry Film
June 1, 2006
CAIRO - Plans for a movie about the
Egyptian ferry which sank in the Red Sea killing about 1 000
people have infuriated the owner of the ship, a newspaper reported on
Thursday. According to Al-Masri Al-Yom, the ship owner and MP Mamduh
Ismail has urged Wahid Hamed, one of Egypt's top screenwriters, to
abandon the script, but he refused…
Source: News24.com
