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...outbreak at Hoping was finally disclosed on April 22, only after President Chen Shui-bian received a tip-off from a friend working at another hospital. But nurse Wang told TIME she first saw patients with SARS-like symptoms at Hoping on April 9. Interviews with eight nurses who were working at Hoping at that time show just how poorly the hospital handled the outbreak. Wang recalls treating two patients with SARS-like symptoms when "all we had for protection were face masks ... I felt like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered...
...fastest way for a government official to become a victim of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is to do too little to prevent the killer disease from spreading. Perhaps that's why Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian is portraying himself as a front-line crusader in the fight against the SARS virus. Chen told local reporters that he received a phone call on April 22 from a friend, a local health-care official, warning him that Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital was covering up an outbreak of SARS among its patients and medical staff. Chen dispatched investigators from Taiwan...
When James Soong left the Kuomintang (KMT) prior to Taiwan's 2000 presidential race, he essentially handed the election to Chen Shui-bian and his upstart Democratic Progressive Party. Soong, running as an independent, outpolled the KMT's nominee, then-Vice President Lien Chan, 36.8% to 23.1%. Chen, however, took 39.3%, putting an end to more than 50 years of KMT rule. But three years in the political wilderness seem to have thawed the friction between Soong and Lien, and?on Valentine's Day, appropriately enough?they announced that they would join forces against Chen in the next election...
...movie star looks and squeaky clean image. What's more, he's a member of the Kuomintang Party (KMT), which ruled Taiwan for 51 years before being voted out of power two years back. The current thinking is that Ma could present a strong challenge to President Chen Shui-bian, possibly heralding the return of the KMT. That would be an epochal event for the island's nascent, ever-evolving democracy, signaling either a revival of the cash-rich party's hegemony or, at the least, the start of a two-party system. The mainland would certainly be watching...
...percent of the vote, a larger percentage than he did four years ago, when he narrowly defeated the current president and then-incumbent Shui-Bian Chen. Voter turnout was about 70 percent...