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...There was also an increase in filler words like “um” and “ah” and even an audible gulp....
...Taipei Story tells of childhood sweethearts Ah Chin and Ah Lung (pop star Tsai Chin and fellow director Hou Hsiao-hsien, neither of whom had acted professionally before)....
...It also set the stage, four years later, for opposition candidate Chen Shui-bian to win the presidency, leading to Taiwan’s first democratic transition of power....
...HNA’s top leaders Chen Feng and Adam Tan have never been hit by online tales of sudden disappearance....
...“The happiest thing is, I finally have some time to play with Think Think and Ah Tsai,” Tsai Ing-wen, the leader of Taiwan’s opposition party, wrote on her Facebook page, after she won a double majority...
...Huang, who is known in Hong Kong and in public filings as Wong Kwong-yu, his Cantonese name, has conducted his business from prison since 2010, when he was handed a 14-year sentence for bribery and insider...
...Mr Chen will work with Xiaomi co-founder Wang Chuan to build channels for the Xiaomi TV Mi, a high-definition video streaming set-top box....
...By Tom Pearson, Robert Armstrong, Sujeet Indap, Steve Bernard and Robin Kwong...
...Chinese stocks are trading at a 6 per cent discount to Hong Kong-listed companies, according to the Hang Seng China AH premium index, which stands at 93.93....
...Chen has long maintained that the trial against him was politically motivated due to his anti-China views....
...Before this week, Chen was considered one of them....
...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...
...Still, there is good reason, Chen argues, for Taiwan’s government to look at raising additional taxes....
...He subsequently took temporary refuge in the US embassy but last week, several reporters at the Beijing hospital where Mr Chen was moved to for treatment had their identification cards temporarily confiscated...
...Chen said on Monday that Taiwan needed to move beyond export manufacturing to design, research and development – products should not only be made in Taiwan, but also designed by Taiwan....
...Additional reporting by Gwen Chen and Zhao Tianqi in Beijing...
...So, congratulations to Chen for his appointment. And good luck....
...The main reason for the turnaround was the government’s activation of Taiwan’s National Stabilisation Fund to intervene in the stock market, said Jeremy Chen, analyst at Morgan Stanley....
...Pauline Chen, analyst at Morgan Stanley who this week upgraded Asus stock to overweight, said: “We expect Asus’s high gearing to emerging markets to enable it to continue to outgrow the market, and its...
...Even Sean Chen, Taiwan’s premier, and President Ma Ying-jeou have followed his exploits....
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen in Shanghai...
...Two other executives charged in the case, including former chief executive LJ Chen, were acquitted, while a mistrial was declared in the case of a third AUO executive....
...This is especially so given Beijing’s distrust of Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party, whose previous president Chen Shui-bian had deeply antagonised China and the US by pursuing formal independence for...
...Mr Chen, the last DPP president, antagonised both Beijing and Washington and greatly raised political tension across the Taiwan Strait during his eight-year rule with his pro-independence rhetoric....
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