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...cloistered region until the Japanese carved out a dirt transportation trail from Chiang Mai to Burma during World War II. Back then, the journey Pai-ward from Chiang Mai took three to seven days by elephant or on horseback. That was the route taken by former Kuomintang soldiers and their families who fled China after the communist takeover in 1949. The immigrants now own many of the charming teakwood houses and businesses in the four-road town; local Thais disparagingly call them jiin ha (galloping Chinese...
Santikhiri, nestled in the upper slopes of Doi Mae Salong in the northernmost province of Chiang Rai, is the kind of place that time forgot. This quaint hamlet, wreathed in a pink mist of cherry blossoms, is home to the so-called "lost army" of the Kuomintang's 93rd Division, which in 1961 stumbled, exhausted, into this mountain paradise. Although by now their numbers have dwindled, you can still see the old warriors padding about in quilted jackets, sipping tea in the shadows of pagodas and reliving old campaigns...
...spit and tears. The most salient moment in the campaign for Taiwan's legislative elections last Saturday?a contest the local press ultimately dubbed the "saliva war"?came when the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) issued an official press release in which it remarked, without elaborating, that "23 million Taiwanese are wiping the DPP's ass." Candidates from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party were not the only ones splashed with vitriol. At one time or another, negative campaigning and personal attacks sent members of each of Taiwan's four major parties to their knees, weeping. Or at least they...
...deal." Chen has vowed to form a coalition with one of the two opposition parties after December's legislative elections. The challenge may be to find a partner. A year ago, Chen was able to bolt together a leadership team simply because he was Taiwan's pioneering, non-Kuomintang President, the first head of state not affiliated with Chiang Kai-shek's founding party. That novelty has worn off. He's the mainstream...
Thursday, May. 17, 2001 Chen Shui-bian made history a year ago when he was elected President of Taiwan, ending 55 years of Kuomintang rule. He's now honing his role on the global stage, as a key player in the cross-Strait drama and with a visit later this month to Latin America via the U.S. Chen sat down last week in Taipei for an interview with TIME editors and reporters. Edited excerpts...