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...site of the planned government headquarters?4 hectares reclaimed from what was once HMS Tamar, a British Royal Navy base?will adjoin 18 hectares of Central waterfront now being filled in. Two other major harborfront sites?40 hectares in West Kowloon slated for a cultural center and the former Kai Tak airport?are now in planning stages. "These are three very important pieces in the jigsaw of the city," says Bosco Fung, Hong Kong's Director of Planning. "Once finished with these three, we will have a complete picture of the metro area." Hong Kong could yet have a waterfront...
...year-old Beijing native-her parents moved to New York when she was 15-is now the manager of investor relations at Baidu, the search company that recently went public in New York and is taking on Google in the red-hot Chinese Internet market. (Google's China chief, Kai-Fu Lee, is among the more prominent Chinese-American executives in the country.) How He found her way back to the country of her birth is not unusual. After graduating from New York University she got a job at Standard & Poor's as a derivatives analyst. She had been "very...
...backs Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek in his fight against Japanese occupation. After World War II, Mao Zedong's Communists defeat Chiang's Nationalists, who flee to Taiwan. Mao founds the People's Republic of China, and more than two decades of isolation from the West begin...
AMERICAN PROMETHEUS KAI BIRD AND MARTIN J. SHERWIN...
...that it was a dormant outfit that a fair number of Taiwanese hadn't even heard of until Chen closed it as a way of thumbing his nose at Beijing. Then, as if for emphasis, Taiwan's Defense Ministry last week proposed removing some run-down statues of Chiang Kai-shek, former KMT leader and ruler of Taiwan for three decades, from military bases across the country. Cue more opposition outrage...