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...Morris Chang, an elder statesman of the semiconductor industry who founded and formerly chaired TSMC, put it most bluntly in remarks addressed to the US....
...Charlie’s son, Tse-ven (TV Soong), and his son-in-law Kung Hsiang-hsi (HH Kung), were both major figures under the Nationalist regime of 1927-49, each serving as prime minister and using family and political...
...Sought out, too, were the modern Chinese masters such as Wu Changshuo, Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian and Fu Baoshi, whose ink and colour paintings on paper now vie with ceramics to make headline sums at auction...
...People love money — that Li Fu-hsiang supports me in the election doesn’t mean that he can’t be cheap and greedy.” Observers say such internal conflict in the DPP may be part of Beijing’s calculus....
...Emily Chang traces the roots of the “boys’ club” of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in her astute and timely analysis of discrimination in the tech sector, Brotopia....
...The incident prompted soul-searching about the value of traditional kung fu, or wushu as it is known in China....
...MediaTek’s China head, Lu Hsiang-cheng, is under investigation over alleged insider trading linked to the company’s planned $3.8bn merger with another Taiwan-based chip company, MStar Semiconductor....
...One of the largest sales recorded took place in China in December 2010, when a 2.1kg stack of seven Fu Yuan Chang cakes was sold for Rmb5,040,000 ($865,000)....
...Dining here is like attending a party in an Eileen Chang novel....
...Wu Fu-hsiang, former director of the High Speed Rail bureau, who oversaw the project through the 16 years it took to conceive, design and build, said that the original plan estimated the break-even point...
...The Ri Sheng Chang Bank Museum unravels the story....
...Da Dong Roast Duck Restaurant, No 22 Dongsishitiao, Dongcheng District, +86 10 5169 0328/0329 Hai Wan Ju, 11 Zengguang Lu, Haidian District, +86 10 8207 0488 Made in China, Grand Hyatt Beijing, 1 East Chang...
...We were also there to welcome Taipei’s new representative to London, Chang Siao-Yue....
...Oaktree, a Los Angeles-based buyout group, last week extended the deadline for its $1bn offer to buy out Fu Sheng, the world’s largest golf club head-maker, by a month after the government did not grant...
...The only figures missing from the Boy’s Own Book of Victorian Bad Lots are Fu Manchu and Professor Moriarty....
...said Tang Hsiang-lung, a political commentator....
...The by-election came after Su Tseng-chang resigned as DPP chairman over the party’s bruising defeat in local polls last month....
...“It does not help to have the president run wild like this,” said Hong Chi-chang, a senior DPP lawmaker. However, those who know Mr Chen argue his moves are more than a fight for political survival....
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