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...ACQUITTED. SU CHIEN-HO, 30, LIU PING-LANG, 30, and chuang lin-hsun, 30, known as the "Hsichih trio," who were convicted in 1991 of a high-profile murder of a Taiwanese couple in the Taipei suburb of Hsichih, and who served 12 years on death row; by a retrial judge citing insufficient evidence; in Taipei. The case had been taken up by human-rights activists who said the three men's confessions had been coerced through torture...
...breed. A joint venture between Japan's Fujitsu and Hitachi, the largest manufacturer of plasma screens, spent $40 million in its plasma business this year, and next year plans to double that. Plasma "is much more ready for the market at this moment, especially in large sizes," says Wang Chien-erh, a vice-president at market research firm DisplaySearch. "lcd TV makers are trying to catch up." How successful they'll be "depends on how much and how quickly they improve quality...
Race also factored into the blocking decision of roommates Kate G. Ward ’05 and Crystal I Chien Farh ’05, who found themselves sometimes at odds over their views on self-segregation. Ward, from upstate New York, is of a mixed European-Catholic background. Farh is of Chinese descent, and was born in the U.S. and raised in Hong Kong. “Probably the biggest thing that bothered me is that she said she feels more comfortable with Asians than whites,” Ward says...
...tawdry tale now gripping Asia is of a former mayor who secretly filmed his ex-girlfriend having sex with another man. A friend then sold the tape to a tabloid, which gave copies to readers in December. Last week, prosecutors filed invasion-of-privacy charges against Tsai Jen-Chien, Kuo Yu-Ling and nine newspaper staffers. The ex-girlfriend, reporter-turned-politician Chu Mei-Feng, published a tell-all book last week and has topped Web portal Lycos' list of most popular search terms for two weeks...
Shih then tracked down the Internet account used by Sadistic Dog. This led her to a Taipei resident named Chen, who disclosed that his former lover occasionally used his account. A month to the day after the suitcase appeared, detectives arrested Liao Chien-kai, an unemployed 25-year-old. After 20 hours of questioning, Liao admitted he had met Lin in the chatroom and arranged to get together for rough sex, though Lin had stated on line that he had "no experience" of such activities. They met at the bank and from there returned to Liao's apartment...