Word: kun
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...quickest way to get relaxed." YU CHENG-HSIEN, Interior Minister of Taiwan, on massage. Taiwanese Premier Yu Shyi-kun has ordered an investigation into allegations that the minister received sexual massages paid for by businessmen
...send teams to help Taiwan cope with SARS?a move that arguably kept the island's medical workers dangerously in the dark on the best methods of disease containment. "China has told the world that they are taking care of us," says Taiwan's Premier Yu Shyi-kun. "It's a shameless...
...CONFIRMED. GOH KUN, 65, veteran politician and former mayor of Seoul whose anticorruption image earned him the nickname "Mr. Clean"; as Prime Minister; in Seoul. Over the past four decades, Goh has served almost every administration and held various posts, including Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister...
...Though its pace drags and its tone is too unvarying, the movie shares the sweet melancholy of the novel. Both versions evoke a wistful longing for the irretrievable drama of youth. Teenage pals Ma (Liu Ye) and Luo (Chen Kun), inheritors of the bourgeois crimes of their doctor parents, are sent for re-education to the primitive if not remarkably picturesque mountain village of Phoenix on the Sky. The work is tough and the conditions harsh. Even worse, all books are banned?except little red ones. Western music is equally verboten as Ma, the film's violin-playing narrator, discovers...
...peak of its power in the 1990s, Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) rewarded its members with stock options, lavished expensive gifts on journalists and opinion makers, and lured tens of thousands to political rallies and election booths with the promise of free food, hats, flags, jackets, and zou-lu-kun?red envelopes stuffed with petty cash. The party even dipped into its own coffers to bolster flagging stock markets or to buy diplomatic support from impoverished nations...