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...known chef is a chubby, smiling cartoon character. Master Kong (Kang Shifu) has been gracing the packets of instant noodles since the early 1990s, and is the creation of Tingyi, a company that chairman Wei Ing-chou built out of his parents' edible-oils firm in Taiwan's rural Changhua county. Thinking that mainland China's rapid development would boost demand for the kind of quick, cheap meals that workers would fill up on during factory breaks or after a punishing shift, he decided to cross the Taiwan Strait and set up a factory in Tianjin in 1992. The timing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Follow the Leaders | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...Taiwan by force. As a Taiwanese citizen, I think it is very reasonable for Premier Yu Shyi-kun to tell the world that Taiwan will use its missiles if attacked. China should realize that using force is a "really stupid" way to make China and Taiwan unify. Lin Yihui Changhua, Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...rains started first in the north. Later, in the central part of the island, a record 40 inches of rain fell onto the rocky hills, then raced down in torrents that carried tumbling rocks the size of pumpkins along with them to batter dikes on the plain below. Changhua, a city of 70,000 people, was inundated. At one village near by, 15 people, marooned on a knoll, saved themselves by clinging to the tails of water buffalo that swam to dry land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAR EAST: The Rains Came | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

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