The Auteurs is Cakarel's brainchild: an ambitious former Goldman Sachs banker with a head for technology, he came up with the idea back in 2007 in Tokyo when, with some spare time on his hands, he tried to watch Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love" on the Internet.

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And Ballard took bronze in the men's event as Wa Wai So of Hong Kong set a new Paralympic record.

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"PS2 is in and Sega is out, " says Chan Wai Hin in his seller's stall in Hong Kong's Oriental 188 Shopping Center, a mobbed two-floor stop for gamers.

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Just before the highway's end, we turned into Wai'anapanapa State Park, which has a small black sand beach, and hiked to a cave.

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Numerous helicopter companies (most based in Lihu'e) offer up-in-the-air jaunts over waterfall-striped Mt Wai'ale'ale, the island's central shield volcano and one of the wettest spots on Earth, and the sheer-hewn sea cliffs of the Na Pali coast, accessible otherwise only by ocean kayak.

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In no way does the u-turn signal any softening of Singapore's hardline HIV policy, says gay-rights activist Alex Au Wai Ping.

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Group firm CG Foods' Wai Wai, a popular brand of instant brown noodles, was ranked as Nepal's top consumer brand by research firm acnielsen last year.

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