Angelina Jolie In New York

Popping in the Big Apple, Angelina Jolie was spotted in search of apartment buildings in the city of New York yesterday afternoon (February 16).

In the city, before her trip to the west of the Academy Awards, "Changeling" beauty is in preparation for her return to New York for filming the upcoming film "Edwin A. Salt."

According to industry reports, Miss Jolie will play "a CIA agent forced to go undercover as a man - whose mission is to infiltrate the White House."

Meanwhile, Ang Oscar nominated flick "Changeling" makes its way to DVD today (February 17) - for many good reasons to step back in public.

The Government of Thailand Still Angry With Angelina Jolie

The Government of Thailand in May still be angry with Angelina Jolie to talk on behalf of the poor people of the sea, but the actress has raised awareness among some in the South-East Asia.

For a second day, Thai officials reprimanded the globe-trotter Features call for countries to respect the rights of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Myanmar in the vicinity of people fleeing the military dictatorship.

"It was not her role to comment on the matter," spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thai Thar Charungvat said Thursday. Angelina Jolie was in Thailand last week as a goodwill ambassador for UN toured northern camp for refugees from Myanmar.

The Thai authorities have regularly been accused of abuse of Rohingya refugees, including towing more than 1000 open to the sea and letting them die in boat motors without late last year. Some drifted off the coasts of India and Indonesia later weeks, but hundreds of other survivors are dead. Thailand has denied any abuse, but said that the boat people are economic migrants, not refugees.

The local press has seized on the controversy - but not all, took the party of government.

"Instead of blaming Jolie ... why not start talking about the problem? "an editorial in the English language The Nation asked, calling the government to reconsider its policy based on humanitarian principles."

Pavin Chachavalpongpun Thai academic, writing in the Bangkok Post, has even stated that a "brand of Thai-ness has prevented the company successfully completed the responsibility for feeding human rights."

Angelina Jolie - who has visited refugees in many hot spots including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan - did not directly criticize the actions of Thailand. His comment in question merely expressed the hope of the United Nations through a statement that the authorities respect the rights of all refugees and Rohingya.

Angelina Jole and Brad Pitt Lead All-Star BAFTA Awards night in London

 Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie led an all-star cast at the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), where "Slumdog Millionaire" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" were the favourites to win Sunday.

The Hollywood couple were joined on the red carpet in London by Penelope Cruz, Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, Robert Downey Jnr and a cigarette-smoking Mickey Rourke for Britain's leading film and television awards.

Winslet arrived fresh from her double victory at the Golden Globes, where she won best actress for her portrayal of a frustrated 1950s suburbanite in "Revolutionary Road" and best supporting actress for "The Reader," where she plays a former Nazi camp guard.

She has been nominated for her role in both films in the best leading actress category in London, in competition with Jolie for "The Changeling," Kristin Scott Thomas for "I've Loved You So Long" and Streep for "Doubt."

The two biggest films of the night were expected to be "Benjamin Button," starring Pitt as a man who ages in reverse, and "Slumdog Millionaire," a rags-to-riches tale of a lowly Mumbai tea boy who wins top prize in a game show.

They have both been nominated for 11 awards, including best film alongside "Frost/Nixon" -- based on the 1977 interviews between British broadcaster David Frost and disgraced US president Richard Nixon -- "Milk," which stars Sean Penn as California's first openly gay elected official, and "The Reader."

"Slumdog" star Dev Patel is also up for best actor alongside Pitt, Frank Langella for "Frost/Nixon," and Penn and Rourke for "The Wrestler."

In the best supporting actor category is Downey Jnr for spoof Vietnam movie "Tropic Thunder," Brendan Gleeson for black comedy "In Bruges," Philip Seymour Hoffman for drama "Doubt," the late Heath Ledger for "The Dark Knight" Batman movie, and Pitt for Coen brothers caper "Burn After Reading."

Amy Adams is up for best supporting actress for "Doubt," alongside Cruz, for Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," Freida Pinto for "Slumdog Millionaire," Tilda Swinton for "Burn After Reading" and Marisa Tomei for "The Wrestler."

Angelina Jolie Asks Thai Government To Aid Refugees

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie has asked Thailand to permit greater freedom for thousands of refugees stuck in camps after fleeing neighboring Myanmar, according to a U.N. statement released Friday.

Jolie and actor Brad Pitt traveled to a refugee camp in northern Thailand on Wednesday in effort to draw international attention to what the U.N. has called "restricted" movement of roughly 111,000 refugees housed in nine camps along the Thai-Myanmar border, the statement said.

Jolie has spent several years as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. She said her passion for helping refugees, whom she calls "the most vulnerable people in the world," was sparked in 2001 during visits to Cambodia." 

The U.N. estimates more than 5,000 people have fled to northern Thailand's Mae Hong Son province between 2006 and 2007.
A recent CNN investigation found evidence of the Thai army towing an apparent boatload of 190 Rohingya refugees -- a Muslim minority group from Myanmar -- out to sea, prompting Thai authorities to launch an investigation