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...that of a vibrant, fun destination-a place people will want to live in or at least visit on holiday, not merely transit on their way to more exotic Southeast Asian locales such as Bangkok and Bali. "Our entire nation is focused on a self-transformation," says Lim Neo Chian, CEO of the Singapore Tourism Board. "Singapore is changing its image in the eyes of the world...
...discs fill a market void. China limits imports of foreign music; in 2001, censors approved only about 700 titles, according to Giouw Jui-Chian, regional director of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in Asia. The first-and for years the de facto-source of foreign tunes in China was da-kou. "Before, the only way people knew foreign music was through books," says Ou Ning, a Guangzhou-based pop culturato whose 1999 book on Beijing bands was dedicated to the Saw-Gash Generation. "But with dakou, we could hear...
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...student at an American school in Peking when he joined the Communist Revolution in 1948. Like "80 per cent of the students and intellectuals," says Yao, he "did not join because of any Marxist orientation, or because we were Russophiles," but because of the ruling government of Chian Kai-Shek--a regime he considered full of "the most corrupt animals, I won't even say humans...
...outpouring of gifts has also produced eagles by the squadron, including one soaring on a handsome water-wash scroll painted by Mr. and Mrs. Chow Chian-chiu, who were born in China and now live in Miami. Members of Girl Scout Troop 208 in Richland Center, Wis., patiently spelled out on a 21/2 ft. by 3 ft. board the entire Declaration of Independence-using tiny letters meant to go into vegetable soup...