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...Taiwan's soul. The green group, comprising the DPP and the Taiwan Solidarity Union, sees the island as an independent entity, if not in name then at least in substance. "The green will win a majority [in the legislature] because of the rise of Taiwan nationalism," predicts Luo Wen-chia, a Cabinet minister and longtime Chen aide. "It's a decision of values-Taiwan values." For the KMT, which leads the blue side, this week's ballot is a battle for survival. "If we don't keep the majority, there's nothing left," says Liao Feng-te, head of organization...
...Currier House, Melissa May Borja ’04, Adrien C. Finlay ’03-’04, Megan J. Robertson ’04 and Chia-Jung Tsay...
...Already, the 64-year old former civil servant has launched a campaign against corruption and cronyism that, for the first time in four decades, resulted in the arrest of a cabinet minister, Kasitah Gaddam. Indicted in the same week was top businessman Eric Chia Eng Hock, a favorite of Mahathir who headed one of the then leader's pet projects, the Perwaja Steel Works. Abdullah also indefinitely postponed what would have been the country's biggest infrastructure project, a $3.8 billion replacement for the dilapidated railway system awarded by Mahathir in his final days in office to a consortium...
...Chia-Jung Tsay ’04 was named to the USA Today College Academic All-Stars first team last week, while four other Harvard students received second- and third-team honors...
...CHARGED. KASITAH GADDAM, 56, Malaysia's Minister of Land and Cooperative Development, and ERIC CHIA ENG HOCK, 71, a prominent Malaysian industrialist; with separate alleged corruption-related offenses; in Kuala Lumpur. Kasitah served as a minister three times under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Chia, a poor fishmonger's son who built an auto-and-heavy-machinery empire, led various Mahathir-championed commercial projects. The two arrests are considered to be signs that Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, who took office in October and is expected to call elections soon, is cracking down on corruption. "My first hundred days were...