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...time when there was no ongoing civil war, no uprising, no massacres. The situation was quite different in Bosnia and Kosovo: our troops ended years of bloodshed and prevented many more people from being killed, even though the conflict was not a direct threat to American interests. Laura Chiu Palo Alto...
...Shoot To Thrill (lawrencechiu.com/kaitakairport) Photo Finish Hong Kong photographer Lawrence Chiu documented the last few years of Kai Tak's history, often waiting hours for the perfect plane shot. He continues to exhibit and sell his dramatic photos online...
...Last Friday, she stood behind her father fidgeting with her face mask and staring at the swarm of photographers who surrounded her and at the smiling face of her mother who looked down from a picture frame hanging in a Taipei funeral parlor. Her mother was nurse Chen Ching-chiu, who died in the line of duty at the age of 48 and has become a touchstone for Taiwan's heartbreak and frustration at the government's inability to curb the spread of the virus...
...ying, nurses' supervisor in Hoping's chronic-disease ward, says she saw no evidence of a deliberate cover-up. In her view, the real problem was that "in the early days, the criteria for diagnosing SARS were unclear." Indeed, Wu now suspects her friend and colleague nurse Chen Ching-chiu contracted SARS while trying to resuscitate a patient who was only later discovered to have had the disease...
...never explicitly acknowledged his homosexuality. But neither did he try to suppress it, as some Hong Kong stars have done. He was too much the showman, the exhibitionist, in his way the truth teller. He played the pining gay opera star in Farewell My Concubine, then Tony Leung Chiu-wai's caustic lover in Happy Together. Both movies were worldwide hits and gave him a notoriety that didn't quite do him justice. He was gay, yes, but he was mainly other: a luscious rebuttal to Hong Kong cinema's stern or strutting machismo...