Chinatown karaoke bars may hide sex workers, say police

... Many of them do not speak English and are in Australia on 457 or student visas. Their work is not confined to Chinatown and the area around Little Bourke Street; police are increasingly concerned about bars in Box Hill, Springvale, Clayton, and ...

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Life as a "Chinese Puzzle"

... as a director. He didn't want to shoot "in all the usual places" in the city, so he set a lot of the action in Chinatown and the Lower East Side. He wanted to emphasize "globalization" and the "idea of mixing" of nationalities, sexuality and ...

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Scene Last Night: Tiger Cubs, DiDomenico Hunt for Mentors

Tonight, John Griffin of Blue Ridge Capital will pay tribute to Julian Robertson, his personal and professional mentor for more than 25 years. A performance by Estelle and emceeing by Katie Couric are also planned at the sold-out benefit for iMentor, which is chaired by Hoplite Capital's chief investment officer, John Lykouretzos .

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Student Group Tours of New York

... looking forward to the next attraction on the tour. "Our most popular student tour is the SoHo/Little Italy/Chinatown Food Tour. Students enjoy walking through 3 distinctive neighborhoods, and stopping at 4 different places to eat, and seeing ...

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New York City for music lovers

... plastic bucket. A man plays an erhu, a traditional Chinese instrument, in the subway following the 14th annual Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade in New York. Many of New York City's 8.4 million residents were born in another country, which means the ...

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Kieran Lalor: The Met should foot the 'Klinghoffer' bill

An opera so repugnant it is capable of uniting in opposition the state Democratic chairman and a former Republican mayor has a First Amendment right to be staged, but it shouldn't be subsidized by taxpayers. Last week, former Gov. David Paterson, the current leader of the state Democratic Party, and Rudy Giuliani joined together to protest the Metropolitan Opera's production of "The Death of Klinghoffer" because it's undeniably pro-terrorist and perceived as anti-Semitic by many New Yorkers.

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Chinese Gang Crime Is the Subject of New Scorsese Film

... immigrants. But the reputation of Chinese as being a model minority leaves out the sub-prime characters, like the Chinatown gangsters who are still around. The public was reminded of today's Chinese crime syndicates during the scandalous arrest of ...

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