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...legislature. But we can say with pleasure that Taiwanese society was not chaotic, the Taiwanese people were not chaotic and the military was not chaotic. Taiwanese people have been very mature and very rational. Taiwan is a genuinely democratic country. Taiwan is not the Philippines. Taiwan is not Indonesia. Taiwan is Taiwan...
...INDONESIA Censured The impeachment of embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid looked increasingly likely following his weak response to a second parliamentary censure for alleged corruption. In a speech, Wahid failed to respond to accusations of financial irregularities, and opposition leaders dismissed plans for a cabinet reshuffle as "useless...
...Moose Meadow Lodge in Waterbury, couples willing to pay $1,850 get two nights' accommodation for eight people, breakfast and the use of the pond meadow for their civil union or reception. K.C. David, CEO of an online concierge called gayweddings.com has booked travel arrangements for couples from Russia, Indonesia and Australia who are planning civil unions in Vermont in the coming months. "It's snowballing," he says...
...naval leader overwhelms the colonialists from Holland because, says director Wu Ziniu, "he is like Mel Gibson in Braveheart, fighting for his love of freedom." A state-produced TV mini-series premiering in October will present the Dutch as scheming to divide China. In fact, they were ensconced in Indonesia, "with no plans for a big presence in Taiwan," says Philip Kuhn, a Harvard historian. "They held out for a while and then said the hell with it." That's a piece of history unlikely to be portrayed on film. Beijing even plans to promote the film abroad. "We must...
With the collapse of crony capitalist regimes like the one in Indonesia, and as oligarchic nations like Mexico elect more democratic presidents, De Soto's timing is propitious. His Third World clients hope that property-title reform will especially benefit industries like clothing, auto parts and agriculture--where the foreign-trade potential for extralegal businesses is enormous. Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide wants to slice through medieval red tape and legalize his nation's extralegal assets, which amount to $5.2 billion--four times its legal assets. "We would," he says, "finally put our people in partnership with the system...