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Louie’s owner, Cheng-san Chen, who has won a place in students’ hearts for the past 18 years for his friendliness—and alcohol selection—says he will leave Louie’s in the hands of a new owner by the end of the month...
...Chen signed the purchase agreement for his convenience store on Banks Street in late March but has not yet transferred its ownership officially because he is waiting for the City of Cambridge to approve of the store’s new manager...
...sale of the store comes after a turbulent year for Chen...
...Cheong, the Hong Kong-based chief China correspondent for Singapore's Straits Times, had been detained in late April on suspicion of espionage. Three days later, word spread that Lu Jianhua, a sociologist at the government-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing, and another CASS administrator, Chen Hui, had been rounded up around the same time for allegedly leaking state secrets?a charge that, like espionage, can carry the death penalty. But in an open letter to Hong Kong newspapers last Friday, Ching's wife, Mary Lau, claimed that her husband was not working for "a foreign...
...convene by June 1 to approve or reject a package of constitutional amendments drafted last August by Taiwan's legislature. Some of the changes, like increasing the terms of lawmakers, are uncontroversial. Others, such as allowing national referendums, are anything but: Beijing, which considers Taiwan a renegade province, thinks Chen wants to hold a referendum on independence in the remaining three years of his second term. The issue of tinkering with the constitution, like so many others in Taiwan, boomerangs back to the island's big debate: How best to deal with the mainland...