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BEIJING -- Hollywood studios, facing steep challenges in the North American movie market, are taking more interest in China. The Walt Disney Company and Marvel Studios, a division of Disney's Marvel Entertainment subsidiary, are producing ''Iron Man 3'' in China. News Corporation recently bought a stake in the Bona Film Group in Beijing. And an agreement with Chinese authorities will allow more American companies to distribute more movies and reap a greater share of the box office in China, the world's fastest-growing economy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BEIJING -- A brother of the legal activist Chen Guangcheng, whose decision to seek refuge in the American Embassy here prompted a diplomatic standoff between China and the United States, has himself slipped through the security cordon around his village and made his way to the capital, according to a lawyer who met him on Thursday. The brother, Chen Guangfu, said he had come to Beijing to advocate on behalf of his son, who has been in police custody since he attacked a group of plainclothes officers who had broken into the family home in their search for Chen Guangcheng, according to the lawyer, Ding Xikui. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]