Milestones

APPOINTED. WONG KAR-WAI , 47, Hong Kong director known for his exquisitely stylish and sentimental films; as jury president for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in May; in Cannes. Wong, who won the festival's Best Director award in 1997 for Happy Together , is the first Chinese filmmaker to head the high-powered panel that chooses the winners at the glitzy global film festival.

HALTED . The global trade in STURGEON CAVIAR ; by the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES); in Geneva. CITES, which sets annual limits for caviar-exporting countries, has refused to announce quotas for 2006,...