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What caused the 2006 military coup? Because Thaksin happened to enter politics, because of his ideas, because of his riches, so it created envy in politics. Thaksin used another way to run the country. Chuan [Leekpai, Thaksin's predecessor as Prime Minister] used the "bureaucracy way." Everything had to be by law first. But Thaksin [took] a little bit of risk - we call it a "commercialized way." No one thought [Thaksin's economic policies would have] success, but they did. But when [Thaksin won another] term, [the political establishment] thought Thaksin would stay forever. That's why a handful...
...less desirable men find themselves snubbed by Taiwan's sophisticated women, one in four grooms in Taiwan now marries a bride from Southeast Asia or mainland China. "There's a strong urban bias in Taiwan," says Professor Hsia Hsiao-chuan of Shih Hsin University's Graduate Institute of Social Transformation Studies. "That means farmers and blue-collar workers have a hard time finding wives." But the rejected and dejected are treated like kings by professional matchmakers, who take them on trips to browse for brides in poorer parts of Asia...
...railway worker Lee Shuang-chuan, they were also disposable. He derailed the train that carried his second Vietnamese wife. As she was recovering from the "accident" in the hospital, he injected her with deadly snake venom - it turned out he had taken out a $2 million accidental death insurance policy on her. As police began zeroing in on him as a murder suspect, Lee hanged himself from a tree. His first Vietnamese wife died of "a snakebite" four years earlier...
...skeptics have also come around. Says EDB's Yeoh Keat Chuan of the BPro: "It is a revolutionary device. It has significant commercial potential." In spite of the pressure to sell the BPro and reward his shareholders, what matters most to Ting is patients like Ronnie Ho, for whom this modest-looking black wristwatch is already priceless...
...million project. California-based writer and producer Kevin Kent is negotiating with Oliver Stone to direct a film based on his own novel, Nanking. Stanley Tong, the Hong Kong director of several Jackie Chan movies, has a Nanjing movie in development, and award-winning Chinese director Lu Chuan hopes to start shooting his own account of the massacre this month. Finally, Canadian filmmaker Bill Spahic is aiming to complete his documentary, The Woman Who Couldn't Forget: The Iris Chang Story, in time for the massacre's 70th anniversary in December...