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...Shanghai and collecting feedback from several Taco Bell outlets in Singapore?which have since closed. Mexican food might prove to be a tough sell. "I remember from my high school geography class that we were told all Mexico had for food was chili, corn and beans," says Beijing resident Li Xiaoming, 25. "How could they possibly create any tasty fast food out of those ingredients?" Despite the odds, the ever-ambitious Yum plans to open additional Taco Bell Grandes in Shanghai next year. It's also considering a China launch for two of its other U.S. brands...
...Japan's occupation of China. Chinese middle-school students may now groove along to Japanese pop songs, but wartime atrocities are still drummed into their heads in heavy-handed textbooks. Students are encouraged to remember Japan's unwillingness to apologize candidly for its wartime behavior. Little wonder that Li Li, a 21-year-old history student at Northwest who did not see the Japanese skit, said she felt that "clearly the offense was deliberate. They designed it to insult the audience. No one, including the dancers themselves, could have found the skit funny." The Xi'an riots provide only...
Besides Yang, the most high profile detainees are Dr. Wang Bingzhang and Dr. Charles Li. All three were tried or convicted on trumped-up charges of either espionage or subversive intent. The United Nations has officially declared the incarcerations of Yang and Wang to be arbitrary and illegal...
...Li is a U.S. citizen; the other two are American permanent residents. Wang, who has lived in New York since 1982 and whose four children are American citizens, was abducted from a Vietnamese hotel by PRC agents in June 2002. Often referred to as “China’s Nelson Mandela”—among other achievements, Wang founded the China Democracy Party in 1998—he has been sentenced to life in prison...
...company designated to run the festival, Red Canvas Ltd., which turned out to be owned by the chairman of the chamber, American moving-company founder Jim Thompson, and his wife. "That's a private firm, and we don't have the right to check its books," says Fred Li, a member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council, who has asked the territory's powerful Independent Commission Against Corruption to investigate. Thompson denies any impropriety. "We had 90 days to put the damn show on," he says, promising to allow a full audit of the books. "There's absolutely zero...