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Jackie attended the premiere of Shinjuku Incident in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Accompanied by costar Daniel Wu, Jackie arrived in the middle of a rainstorm which caused several of the activities to be cancelled. Jackie told the fans that the rain indicated good luck for the movie.

After the premiere, Jackie flew to Beijing where he kept up a breakneck schedule of activities. After wrapping up the music video for his new song "Country," Jackie attended a press conference for his new movie, Big Soldier. He also announced that he would be hosting a "Jackie Chan and His Friends" concert at the Bird's Nest Stadium.

Hi guys.Happy to meet you with this interesting post.Hope you like it. Jackie announced plans to film his 100th movie, tentatively titled Chinese Zodiac. Jackie told reporters that he has wanted to make this movie for over 6 years but has not had the opportunity. Plans are to film in several countries including China, Austria, and France. Jackie will be directing along with Stanley Tong.

Jackie made an appearance at Victoria Park in Hong Kong to help celebrate the Youth Cultural Festival 2009 to promote better understanding of Chinese ethnic minorities in the Mainland. Young people from 10 provinces or autonomous regions in China staged the open Cultural Carnival which included booths exhibiting the cultural traits of various Chinese ethnic minorities.

Pharmaceutical firms in China and India say they can quickly ramp up production of antiviral drugs if swine flu threatens the world's two most populous nations or if other countries need it.

The virus could spread quickly in densely populated cities in China or India where healthcare systems are often inadequate and antibiotic resistance is common, health officials say.

But so far there have so far been no confirmed or even suspected cases of the virus in either China or India, where more than one out of every three humans live.

Since avian flu caught the world off guard in 2003, Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG has authorised drug companies in developing countries to manufacture an inexpensive generic form of its Tamiflu drug, called oseltamivir or Fluvir.

Hyderabad-based Hetero Drugs, the only supplier in India licenced by Roche, could ramp up production to reach monthly capacity of about 80 million doses of Fluvir within weeks, Managing Director Srinivas Reddy said.

"We have told them we are keeping 1 million doses ready for them, which we can supply in 4 to 5 days," said Reddy, referring to the Indian government.

India's government has already stockpiled one million doses, which could treat more than 142,000 people.

Hetero supplied 200 million doses of the drug in the last three years to India and other countries, Reddy said, adding nations in Latin America, Middle East and Southeast Asia had inquired recently about it.

While there is no vaccine for the swine flu that has killed up to 159 people in Mexico, the generic drugs have been shown to be effective in treatment.

In China, only two companies are licenced to produce generics and they must supply directly to the government at regulated prices and not through regular commercial channels.

"I believe we have sufficient capacity to meet the government's needs in the case of any emergency," Tu Langou, director of global business at HEC Pharm Co, told Reuters.

GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza has also been shown to be effective against swine flu, but it is more complicated to make and ingest.

India does not currently stockpile Relenza doses.

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Vineet Choudhary, a senior official at India's health ministry, said the government had "millions" of face masks available for distribution, a key weapon against a virus that is spread by droplets.

The government will also shortly step up surveillance at India's international airports and ports, said Choudhary.

China has shown that it can react quickly in national emergencies, mobilising local and national governments, along with the military to deal with last year's devastating earthquake and freak winter storms.

HEC has not yet been asked, however, to begin production of oseltamivir, perhaps because Beijing has anyway been stockpiling the drug over the past two years, said Tu.

"HEC has supplied a great quantity over the past two years to government warehouses," he said. Tu did not reveal any details on capacity or doses shipped to the government.

The World Health Organisation recommended that governments stockpile antiviral drugs after the Avian Flu in 2003.

Roche came under criticism for guarding the rights to Tamiflu too closely after the Avian flu erupted, but eventually licenced rivals in developing nations to help meet soaring global demand and slow its spread.

HEC, Shanghai Pharmaceutical group and the Indian companies were providing the drug at reduced prices to ensure it gets into the hands that need it most.

"We do not make money from this programme," said HEC's Tu.

Amar Lulla, joint managing director of Indian drug maker Cipla Ltd said the company had the capability to supply 1.5 million doses of oseltamivir in four to six weeks.

Cipla's cheaper version of Tamiflu costs about $1 a capsule for export markets, slightly more than Hetero's 10 doses for about $6.0.

"We have received some enquiries from Mexico, Israel, New Zealand and Latin America, but nothing has been finalised in terms of exports," Lulla said.

Cipla has not received any request from the World Health Organisation to supply the drug, but the Indian government had asked whether it could supply the drug and had been told it could.

Ramesh Adige, president of Ranbaxy Laboratories, the third supplier in India, said his company was also prepared to begin supplying a generic version of the drug if needed.

The Asian Development Bank's lending will continue to be dominated by disbursements to India and China, despite donor objections that the two fast-growing economies are not in need of concessional funds.

Rajat Nag, managing director general of the Manila-based multilateral lender, said in an interview on the sidelines of the ADB's annual meeting that loans to China and India held more significance than the dollar amounts given out.

"It enables these two countries and also us to be able to bring in best international practices in project implementation, policy issues and safeguards," he told Reuters late on Saturday. "I think for these countries it helps to have an external agency providing that."

Last year, India accounted for $2.88 billion of the ADB's total ordinary loans of $10.45 billion, while China came in at second spot with $1.75 billion. Other major recipients included Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Nag acknowledged that many of the ADB's donors had expressed reservations about the amount of lending to the two Asian powerhouses.

But he added: "If we are going to seriously attack the issue of poverty in Asia and the Pacific, you are really talking about China and India."

"We believe that our involvement with the two countries is important because of the fight against poverty, because that's where the numbers are."

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Nag also said it was important for the ADB to have a good part of its loans lent out securely.

"We are also a bank," he said. "These are the two countries which are investment grade."

The ADB's formal meetings with its board of governors -- finance ministers from its donors and other member-nations -- begin on Monday.

Donors have already agreed to a 200 percent increase in the ADB's capital base, which will enable the bank to ramp up lending by about 50 percent over 2009 and 2010 to around $33 billion in the two-year period.

On Saturday, ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda announced a new $3 billion fund to provide quick loans for increased spending to counter the global economic downturn. The ADB has also set up a $1 billion fund to provide trade financing.

Besides these facilities, Nag said most of the new funding would concentrate on infrastructure.

"Bulk of it will be in infrastructure because that is where the huge needs of Asia still are and because that is where you will get the most immediate impact of employment and income generation," he said.

Education and the environment would be other priorities.

The ADB will also seek to ensure that governments maintain social expenditure to counter the effects of the economic crisis on the poor, he said.

Soft loans under the Asian Development Fund (ADF) window, reserved for poorer nations, will be front-loaded over the next two years, Nag said.

Last year, donors agreed on a $11.3 billion contribution to the ADF window over the 2009-2012 period.