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...Neither John Burn-Murdoch’s data points article on gender polarities (January 27), nor comments garnered below the line, mentioned Andrew Tate and his like making £5mn a month through influencer...
...After joining other dissidents in the US, Wang Wen-hung became an ardent supporter of Taiwan independence....
...The WBG must also strengthen its studies around the impact that this financing is having on reducing countries’ fossil fuel dependency, increasing energy access and building resilient economies...
...In Taipei, Chiang defeated the DPP’s Chen Shih-chung, a former health minister who led the central government’s pandemic control effort, and Huang Shan-shan, deputy to the current mayor Ko Wen-je of the...
...Over the course of a long foreign trip that has seen her visit the US twice, Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen has delivered a consistent and blunt message....
...They are expected to hold talks with mayor Chiang Wan-an, from the opposition party Kuomintang. But the Taipei municipal government declined to provide any information on the trip....
...If you’ve followed the Disney/Peltz drama you might be interested in a podcast called The Town, an insider-y weekly discussion about Hollywood....
...In the restaurant world, “you’re seeing that ‘adding to the local tapestry’ thing a lot in food and drink”, says Wee Teng Wen, founder of The Lo & Behold Group....
...Taiwan’s struggling opposition party will make an all-out effort this week to convince Washington that the Kuomintang, once a US wartime ally when its erstwhile leader Chiang Kai-shek ruled China, remains...
...The Chinese government has refused to engage with any Taiwanese government that — like the administration of Tsai Ing-wen, the current president — does not commit to the 1992 consensus....
...When Chiang Ching-kuo died in 1988, Lee took over the presidency....
...It does more of a Chiang Mai noodle. I love the khao soi [curried noodles], as it reminds me of my time in Chiang Mai, during an amazing trip to Thailand and Myanmar with my husband....
...The KMT, under leader Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan from Mao Zedong’s China in the 1940s, and instituted decades-long martial law before democratisation started in the late 1980s....
...The detente ended after Tsai Ing-wen, from the independence-minded Democratic Progressive party, won power in 2016. Her victory took Mr Xi by surprise....
...Given that her party’s poor performance in November’s local elections was largely driven by economic concerns, President Tsai Ing-wen would like to be viewed as bringing jobs back to Taiwan....
...“Tsai Ing-wen’s election changed the equation.”...
...The New Zealand-born UN officer was here in the late 1940s, when Chiang Kai-shek’s defeated Chinese Nationalist army fled to the island from Mao Zedong’s China, quickly seizing control of the government...
...The protocol-busting phone call between Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen and US president-elect Donald Trump has been greeted with consternation in Beijing, alarm among the US foreign policy establishment...
...This delightful mushy mix is traditionally called Moros y Cristianos, Moors and Christians, an ecumenical twist that always makes me smile....
...Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding prime minister, had a close relationship with former Taiwanese leader Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo, who was president of the territory from 1978 to 1988...
...Taiwan’s new president Tsai Ing-wen announced plans today for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address the country’s historical controversies....
...The DPP’s Tsai Ing-wen defeated her KMT opponent by a landslide in January’s presidential elections. Why did Trump’s December 2 phone call with Tsai set off such a firestorm?...
...Ties with Beijing are likely to come under pressure in the event of a victory by Tsai Ing-wen, the DPP presidential candidate....
...“Informing the citizens of the country of such a meeting under such hasty circumstances is damaging to Taiwan’s democracy,” DPP leader Tsai Ing-wen, who leads the polls to be Taiwan’s next president, said...
...After capturing Shanghai, the Japanese military advanced up the Yangtze river to Nanking, the seat of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government....
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