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...getting tougher these days to find people with a kind word to say for Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian. With supporters of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) disillusioned by a spate of corruption scandals involving Chen's family members and close advisers, and with the opposition calling loudly for his resignation, 64% of respondents to a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by market-research company TNS said Chen should step down. Of those who want him out of office, 32% identified themselves as supporters of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party. But more than half claimed no political affiliation. And even...
...APOLOGY DENIED. To Chen Yabian, 79, and seven other Chinese "comfort women" held as sex slaves by Japanese soldiers during World War II, in what is expected to be the last of several lawsuits against the Japanese government for war crimes; by the Tokyo District Court; in Tokyo. While the court acknowledged that Japanese soldiers had abducted and repeatedly raped the wom-en?some only 14 years old at the time?it dismissed their demands for a formal apology and $200,000 each in compensation, saying that the current government could not be held responsible for Japan's wartime military...
...finance various business deals and speculative real estate projects. Among those hit by accusations of bribery or improper loans are Zhu Junyi, the pension fund's supervisor and a member of China's parliament; Zhang Rongkun, one of the nation's richest men; and Qin Yu, former secretary to Chen Liangyu, Shanghai's top Party official. The growing scandal comes as China's President Hu Jintao has intensified his campaign against corruption, instructing government officials and their families to report any property transactions, business holdings and foreign travel to the Party...
Just hours after our interview, Chen was detained by security officials, who had traveled hundreds of miles from Linyi to Beijing. For the next six months, he was kept under virtual house arrest. Despite the harassment, which included several beatings, he remained hopeful: the State Family Planning Commission in Beijing admitted publicly that Linyi officials had broken the law. Chen kept in contact with foreign journalists through cell phones that friends and family smuggled in for him. Last September I wrote a story for TIME about forced sterilizations in Linyi. The magazine subsequently named Chen to its annual list...
After trying to leave his village without official permission last March, Chen was arrested again. The local police finally announced in June that he was being held on charges of damaging property and organizing a mob to disturb traffic. (Witnesses on the scene dispute the allegations.) In previous years, a plea from the U.S. State Department might have helped get a Chinese political prisoner released. But foreign pressure has less effect these days, in part because the international community holds little leverage. China is the world's factory. It holds bountiful foreign-currency reserves. It will be host...