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...Traces is a story of desertion and reconciliation. Charles had abandoned his two sons, Lily her daughters. Likewise, Charles and Lily moved to Australia in 1962, leaving Jackie at school in Hong Kong. (As husband to retired film star Lin Fengjiao, Jackie has repeated the pattern, often deserting her and their son to shoot movies.) Finally, Charles reunited his family in Shandong?all but Jackie, who has yet to meet his brothers...
...DIED. LIN WANG, 86, the world's oldest elephant, which was honored by the Japanese government for carrying canons and supplies for the Japanese army in Burma during World War II; in Taipei. Lin Wang had been in poor spirits since Ma Lan, his companion, died last October...
...residence's Qing-dynasty compound is rumored to have once been the home of Kuomintang General Fu Zuoyi and served as both an infirmary and message center for the Communist government. In the late 1960s, a bomb shelter was dug out from under the courtyard on the orders of Lin Biao, Mao's then-heir apparent. Brahm has turned it into the three-chambered Bomb Shelter Bar, a lushly decorated wine and cigar lounge where you can sip red Bordeaux while watching vintage films, such as The East Is Red and Ballet of the Red Detachment of Women. Brahm...
...ACQUITTED. SU CHIEN-HO, 30, LIU PING-LANG, 30, and chuang lin-hsun, 30, known as the "Hsichih trio," who were convicted in 1991 of a high-profile murder of a Taiwanese couple in the Taipei suburb of Hsichih, and who served 12 years on death row; by a retrial judge citing insufficient evidence; in Taipei. The case had been taken up by human-rights activists who said the three men's confessions had been coerced through torture...
...They were very knowledgeable and I liked the diverse backgrounds they came from,” said Yang Lin ’06. “I was pretty impressed by the speakers...