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...Tsai Ing-wen offered a faint smile three years ago when a foreign visitor asked her if she was worried about Beijing’s military threat. “Of course....
...The book’s privately owned publisher, Dookbook, and its state-owned publisher, Wen Hui Publishing, did not respond to requests for comment....
...The person chosen is Li Hui, a veteran diplomat and former ambassador to Moscow who is currently special representative of the Chinese government on Eurasian affairs....
...Beijing fired missiles into waters off the northern and southern tips of the island after Washington allowed then Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to visit in 1995....
...Analysts said the drills resembled a larger, more threatening version of the war games China staged in 1995 and 1996 to punish Taiwan for a visit by its then-president Lee Teng-hui to the US, and to warn...
...A lot of people are suddenly paying more attention to self-defence,” said Ho Cheng-hui, a law professor who last year founded Kuma Academy....
...“We have noticed that there’s a vulnerability in the current legal system that needs to be patched,” Investment Commission spokesperson Lu Chen-hui told Nikkei Asia....
...Tsai Hui-chun, the retired teacher, believes that although she has no desire for Taiwan to become part of China, it will eventually happen....
...Lee Teng-hui, who became Taiwan’s first democratically elected president in 1996 as China launched missiles into the seas around the island, has died at the age of 97....
...“Unless you use leverage or margin financing you might not be able to get” shares, said Kenny Wen, wealth management strategist at Everbright Sun Hung Kai....
...Mr Wen added that further falls were likely for Hong Kong stocks if protests erupted over the weekend....
...Lin Shu-hui normally takes little interest in politics. The 45-year-old mother of two is far too busy managing her husband’s motorcycle repair shop and selling steamed buns at a roadside stall....
...Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen had made a last-ditch push on Friday to encourage young voters, telling supporters that the future of their democratic nation was at stake....
...It has boosted the popularity of the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, who is detested by the Chinese government, which regards her as a pro-independence separatist....
...It follows allegations of Beijing’s involvement in the creation of disinformation and spreading Chinese propaganda undermining President Tsai Ing-wen and candidates from her ruling Democratic Progressive...
...Taiwanese protesters poured on to the streets of Taipei on Saturday to call for President Tsai Ing-wen to take a stronger stance against Beijing as anger grows over what is seen as intensifying Chinese pressure...
...“Tsai Ing-wen’s election changed the equation.”...
...Chung Yiu-kwong’s Love in a Fallen City turned Chang’s novella into a fine, if rather conventional, dance piece, with the story’s lovers represented onstage by dancers Wei Ching-ju and Yeh Wen-hao while...
...Wen Yunchao, a Hong Kong-based blogger and free speech advocate, warned of “devastating moral and political consequences”....
...“In their first [five-year] term, Hu and Wen still achieved some things....
...Dongqu Huashi Beili South of Dongbianmen Chongwen District +86 10 6713 6439 For more listings of regional and municipal government restaurants in Beijing, see the Beijing Eats guidebook by Eileen Wen...
...Kim Jong-il has also named his sister, Kyong-hui, as general, KCNA news agency said, on the eve of the opening of the Workers’ Party Congress in the capital....
...President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have demanded no effort be spared in rescue attempts, and sent Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu to Qinghai to oversee relief work, state television said....
...The report is to be presented to CCICED in Beijing on Thursday and to Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday....
...Mr Hui acknowledges the need to balance trade. China does not need to run a trade surplus with India, he says....
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