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...surprisingly, the man trying to knock down the barrier is Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) broke the KMT's longstanding stranglehold on power in March 2000 elections. Chen last month made good on an election promise when his cabinet introduced legislation barring political parties from investing in profit-making enterprises. The bills, if passed by Taiwan's parliament, would also give the government the go-ahead to open the KMT's books and seize assets deemed to have been obtained illegally...
...DPP claims it's not targeting a particular group. But Chen's controversial bid to strip the KMT of its revenue base is, of course, political. Of Taiwan's four major parties, only the KMT has anything to lose. Outsiders are not privy to the party's inner workings, but there's no doubt profits from its enterprises?which include China Petrochemical Development Corp, Broadcasting Corporation of China, and Fuh-Hwa Financial Holdings Co.?are converted into political currency to the detriment of opponents...
...foreign-managed trust fund. In addition, he said the KMT would be willing to hand over to the government 110 parcels of land and 42 buildings, worth a total of $23 millionthat it says were "gifts" from generous benefactors. Lien dismissed allegations that the assets were illegally acquired. The DPP responded by stating that a trust would still allow the KMT to receive payouts from their commercial operations, defeating the principle...
...President's a Hunk All along, we thought taiwanese President and dpp leader Chen Shui-bian's rise to political prominence was due to his steely competence. This was a man, his smug eagerness and wire-frame spectacles seemed to say, who could solve Taiwan's problems as easily as he performed differential calculus. He never actually wore a slide rule in his pocket, but we knew it was there, in spirit at least, close to his heart. Two years and a few gdp contractions later, that aura of can-do confidence has been chipped away and we are left...
...word: sex. A recent rerelease by Taiwan Colors Music of the 1986 11-song dpp compilation Oh! Formosa packages Chen the sex symbol rather than Chen the A-student. The handsome, well-coiffed A Bian?make that Ahhhhh!-Bian?is posed on the cover, emanating halos of mojo, windbreaker coolly unzipped, hands hitched smugly in his low-slung slacks. As he warbles Lover's Pillow in his adenoidal tenor to Casio keyboard accompaniment, it all begins to make sense. The Taiwanese people must have known that inside the mild-mannered technocrat was a musky he-man who?and please...