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Gong Li...however, reunited in 2006 for Zhang's Curse of the Golden Flower. In 1996, news began circulating that Gong had married Singaporean tobacco tycoon, Ooi Hoe Soeng (黄和祥). They were married in November 1996 at Hong Kong's China Club. Gong... In this article: Gong Li, Zhang Yimou, Farewell My Concubine, Ju Dou, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Central Academy of Drama, Singapore, The Story of Qiu Ju, Red Sorghum, and Hollywood |
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IMDb News | November 12, 2008
Chinese Outraged At Gong Li's Decision To Renounce Citizenship
...she be shunned, or as one writer put it "nailed to history's mast of shame." Gong has been married to Singapore tobacco company executive Ooi Hoe Seong since 1996. Chen Kaige, who directed her in Farewell My Concubine, has since become a U.S....
In this article: Gong Li, Chen Kaige, Farewell My Concubine, Memoirs of a Geisha, Singapore, Agence France-Presse, Curse of the Golden Flower, and Red Sorghum
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Times Online | November 11, 2008
Memoirs of a Geisha star, Gong Li, branded 'traitor' by Chinese
...took the oath of citizenship at the weekend along with 149 other new citizens. Her husband, the Singaporean tobacco tycoon Ooi Hoe Soeng, accompanied her. Beijing does not allow its people to hold double nationality and the star will be...
In this article: Gong Li, Memoirs of a Geisha, U.S., Nationalism, Maggie Cheung, Hollywood, Tibet, and China
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Reuters | November 10, 2008
Chinese actress Gong Li becomes a Singaporean
..."Miami Vice" and "Hanibal Rising." Li, who is married to a local tobacco businessman, raised the hackles of some Singaporeans in August when she failed to show up at a citizenship ceremony. They felt the actress, who was filming a...
In this article: Gong Li, Hollywood, Miami Vice, Raise the Red Lantern, Memoirs of a Geisha, Red Sorghum, and Reuters
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Independent.co.uk - World | November 11, 2008
Outrage as China's leading lady defects to Singapore
Outrage as China's leading lady defects to Singapore Gong Li, star of Memoirs of a Geisha, is married to Singaporean tobacco tycoon Ooi Hoe Seong China's leading lady Gong Li, best known in Britain for her role in Memoirs of a Geisha, is...
In this article: Gong Li, China, Singapore, China Film Group, Catherine Deneuve, Memoirs of a Geisha, Zhang Yimou, Helen Mirren, and Raise the Red Lantern
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | November 11, 2008
Memoirs of a Geisha actress Gong Li 'defects' to Singapore
...we see Americans taking Chinese citizenship?" Gong also starred in Farwell My Concubine. She married a Singaporean tobacco tycoon several years ago. This was her second attempt to get citizenship. Switzerland is the home of big mountains,...
In this article: Gong Li, Memoirs of a Geisha, Singapore, Sohu, Switzerland, US, and China
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Tobacco is an agricultural product, recognized as an addictive drug, processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. Tobacco has long been in use as a entheogen. However at the arrival of the Europeans, it quickly became popularized as a trade item and as a recreational drug. This popularization led to the development of the southern economy of the United States until it gave way to cotton. Following the American Civil War, a change in demand and a change in labor force allowed for the development of the cigarette. This new product quickly led to the growth of tobacco companies until the scientific controversy of the mid-1900s.
There are many species of tobacco, which are all encompassed by the plant genus Nicotiana. The word nicotiana (as well as nicotine) was named in honor of Jean Nicot, French ambassador to Portugal, who in 1559 sent it as a medicine to the court of Catherine de Medici. The effects of tobacco on human health is significant depending on the method of which it used and the amount. Of the various methods of consumption the primary health risks pertain to diseases of the cardiovascular system by the vector of smoking, which overtime allows high quantaties of carcinogens to deposit in the mouth, throat, and lungs.
Tobacco is cultivated similar to other agricultural products. Seeds are sown in cold frames or hotbeds to prevent attacks from insects, and then transplanted into the fields. Tobacco is an annual crop, which is usually harvested in a large single-piece farm equipment.
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