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Although best known as a sprawling metropolis, most visitors to Singapore marvel at the greenness of it all. Wide boulevards shaded by venerable Rain Trees, interconnecting parks displaying a huge variety of tropical plants, roadside plantings in every shade of green, red and yellow, and great expanses of junglescape alongside the office skyscrapers and apartment blocks. It is truly a garden city, in all senses of the word. In this travel pictorial,...
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This stunning Hong Kong travel pictorial captures the architecture, culture, people, and cuisine of one of the most dynamic cities. You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you. The experience of encountering an unforgettable mix of influences, cultures, and flavors stays with visitors. It's a place of clashing contrasts, Hong Kong is famous as the place where East most dramatically meets West, but that's just the start of it. It is also where...
4) China style
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Chinese interior design is a kaleidoscope of competing influences: scholarly gardens versus opium dens, imperial palaces battling concrete-and-steel high-rises, rural simplicity fighting urban chaos China Style gives an insiders' look at the interiors that draw from this vivid and powerful tradition, a tradition that is constantly being reinterpreted to produce a fresh and dynamic style of contemporary design.
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Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2004
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1 DVD (ca. 351 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Road to Singapore: In the first road movie, the dedicated bachelors escape from matrimony right into the arms of Dorothy Lamour. Road to Zanzibar: In the second road movie, the guy scamsters get scammed by the gals. Road to Morocco: In the third road movie, the Princess buys shipwrecked Bob and plans to marry him. Road to Utopia: In the fourth road movie, the boys search for a gold mine by pretending to be escaped killers.
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Film Movement volume 12, film 2
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignites the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.
Bonus short film: A boy moves to a new neighborhood and falls in love for the first time with a much older girl next door.
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Featured as a "Top Pick" on TravelForKids.com, Gecko's Complaint tells the story of a Gecko who once lived on the island we now call Bali, in a jungle dense with flowers and vines. After hundreds of fireflies disturb Gecko's sleep, he complains to kindly Raden, the jungle's lion leader. In his efforts to get to the bottom of Gecko's troubles, Raden discovers all too much complaining and far too many irritable animals. Can Raden help the animals with...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2013
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264 pages
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After losing her husband, Rosie Lee could have become one of Singapore's "tai tai," an idle rich lady. Instead she is building a culinary empire from her restaurant, Aunty Lee's Delights, where spicy Singaporean meals are graciously served to locals and tourists alike. But when a body is found in one of Singapore's tourist havens and one of her guests fails to show at a dinner party, Aunty Lee knows that the two events are likely connected.
14) King Rat
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
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1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors.
15) Remittance
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Passion River
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Marie leaves behind her children and unemployed husband for Singapore to work as a maid, she leaves behind one set of hardships only to confront new ones.
17) Wet Season
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Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The Oscar entry for Singapore. It's monsoon season in Singapore and the city is pouring with rain. WET SEASON follows the plight of Ling, a Chinese language teacher, whose marriage and school life are fraying apart because she is unable to bear a child. But an unlikely friendship with a student helps her reaffirm her identity as a woman.
19) Remittance
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New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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REMITTANCE follows Marie, a foreign domestic worker from the Philippines as she struggles to cope with demanding employers, long hours of work, and separation from her family. Breaking from the conventional image of maids as labor, the story explores the transformations Marie goes through as a woman dealing with conflicting obligations and aspirations. At its heart, REMITTANCE is a coming of age story about a woman trying to balance living for her...
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2010]
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1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Flip through the pages of any issue of the National Geographic magazine and see eye-opening and evocative images that are among the best published anywhere in the world. Yet even among these striking images, there are some that stand out. What really sets these photos apart are the stories behind them.
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