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...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...
...D.P.P. sent its supporters to Chiang Kai-shek International Airport on the day Hsu was due to return for what was promised would be a peaceful demonstration. But the scene turned violent after 2,000 marchers on their way to the airport were stopped by a police roadblock. Demonstrators, suspected by some of being government provocateurs, began throwing rocks, and police responded with tear gas and water cannons. By the time the fracas was broken up, 31 police vehicles had been overturned...
...Hsu had never managed to get on the plane in Tokyo. Taipei had warned all Taiwan-bound airlines not to accept any passenger without proper entry documents. Two days later he used a false name to get on a flight from Manila, but Taipei had been tipped off, and he was forced to return on the same plane...
...most part, though, companies muddled through. Paul Hsu, a Hong Kong banker, says that while the Internet was running slowly, there was no panic at his office. "Things are pretty chill here," he says. Steve Rowles, an analyst at CFC Seymour stock brokerage in Hong Kong, says his company was unable to use its normal trading system on Wednesday but kept operating by routing buy and sell orders through its main office in Switzerland. But he noted that trading volumes were light because the outage occurred between Christmas and New Year's Day. "If this had happened two weeks from...
...conservator for public arts at the CAC.Yet the police rarely become involved, nor does there seem to be a particular effort to catch the perpetrators.“Vandals are sometimes the people who live in that community, and it is their space also,” says Lillian Hsu, director of public art and exhibitions at the CAC. “People who sleep there day or night—even though others think that they shouldn’t be sleeping there—those people are also the public.“It just raises the question...