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...largely outlawed; people convicted of illegally making, transporting or selling guns can face the death penalty. But several high-profile shootings?including a June 16 gun battle between police and suspected kidnappers in Taichung City that left two cops dead, and the March 19 assassination attempt on President Chen Shui-bian?have prompted a crackdown on illegal firearms. Over the past several months, more than 90 people suspected of illegal possession have been detained and more than 100 weapons seized. Lawmakers also plan to boost penalties for homemade firearms. (Police say Chen may have been wounded with a homemade pistol...
...broaden the scope of his efforts, Ho enlisted the support of the newly appointed director of the province's Bureau of Health, Chen Juemin. Chen, to Ho's relief, is intent on addressing the AIDS epidemic in his province and is eager to have Yunnan serve as a testing ground for programs that Minister of Health Wu in Beijing will consider for the rest of the country. "This situation will not just go away," Chen told TIME. "We probably lost a chance [of controlling AIDS] because we did not open up publicly about our HIV work in the early 1980s...
...more immediate cause for his detention. In it, he not only described his memories of the gruesome scene at his hospital on the night the P.L.A. opened fire on peaceful crowds of pro-democracy demonstrators, but he also revealed that China's late President Yang Shangkun and Party elder Chen Yun privately expressed regret over the carnage. For the past 15 years, Beijing has insisted the demonstration was a "counterrevolutionary rebellion" engineered by a small number of "black hands," and denied reports of the mass killing of innocent civilians. Jiang argued in his letter that if the leaders responsible...
...classical music, as he busily builds bridges between West and East and with the rest of the developing world. A truly global force, Ma's recent projects include a collaboration with Brazilian musicians and, on June 15, a performance in Singapore of a new cello concerto by Chinese composer Chen Yi, along with a quadruple concerto by acclaimed Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng. Following Ma's lead, young Asian players are nowadays edging out their Western counterparts at the best conservatories in Europe and America; and as they mature, Asian instrumentalists are increasingly getting star billing as soloists...
...seems to be half the police force, they take refuge and hostages in one of the city's anonymous apartment towers. The cops lay siege, followed closely by Hong Kong's media, whose voraciousness might be matched only by their vapidity. The important thing, reasons one top officer (Kelly Chen), isn't just catching the bad guys; the cops also have to put on an impressive show for the legions of cameramen and photographers staking out the crime scene if the public is to be convinced that everything is under control. Even as the criminals are outwitting them at every...