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...Haydn Hsin, TAIPEI...
...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...
After the introduction, Koh and piano accompanist Hsin-Bei Lee, a professional pianist and MIT affiliate, performed three pieces: Benjamin Britten’s “Cello Sonata,” Frederic Chopin’s “Cello Sonata,” and Astor Piazzolla’s “Le Grande Tango...
...prevent the Democratic Progressives and other Tangwai (literally "outside the party") candidates from campaigning in the election. K.M.T. and D.P.P. politicians alike favored free enterprise and Western ties, and both railed against pollution and corruption. The final days on the hustings, however, were overshadowed by the attempts of Hsu Hsin-liang, 48, a Taiwanese dissident in exile in the U.S., to return to Taiwan...
...Chiang Kai-shek's army in 1945. Now the former colonial master is effectively promising to watch-guard its former subjects and their tense relationship with mainland China. If Taiwanese were skeptical or ambivalent, they didn't express it. "The joint declaration is a check on China," says Lai Hsin-yuan, a former adviser to Taiwan's National Security Council. Says Koh Se-kai, Taiwan's de facto ambassador in Tokyo: "We are very happy...