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...people] watch Taiwan TV. On March 22, my election day, the vote-counting process after the booths closed lasted for two to three hours. It was televised live worldwide. We estimate that at least 300 million overseas Chinese and mainland Chinese watched that. Three years ago, when we had local elections, the same thing happened. I was so impressed and so astonished. They didn't even know the candidates. Why would they want to watch that? I visited the website of the People's Daily. People sometimes leave comments on current events. One said, Why can an ordinary Taiwanese cast...
...Lanka, but de Zilwa didn't choose the name - that of King Arthur's legendary birthplace in Cornwall - out of any attachment to empire. He was a fashionable man, living in the most fashionable part of the city, and it was the vogue at the time among the local élite to give wistful English names to their villas...
...sturdy redwood's trunk are writhing ancestral figures - slave, virginal taupou and high chief - and carved at canopy height are the words SAMOA MUAMUA LEATUA, God first in Samoa. Soaring above American Samoa's national museum and gallery, the sculpture - titled From Agony to Ecstasy - is the brainchild of local artist Tile Tuala. Scurrying around it on this warm winter's morning are the half-dozen assistants from other island nations whom the artist has enlisted to help with the finishing touches of his sculpture. "We love to work together with all the artists of the South Pacific," says Tuala...
...named the 1980s after himself, he has run a remarkably genuine campaign. He's been at it for nearly five years, going around the state to parades and barbecues and supporting local Democrats by using his celebrity to draw people to fund raisers. He learned the local politics of Minnesota, first going to Washington to meet all the state's Representatives and then systematically meeting everyone who influences county politics and who would later need to be wooed at the state caucuses. "I enjoyed it, but not to the extent Bill Clinton does," says Franken. And he's a little...
...held up Tibet's snow lion flag amid a sea of People's Republic Red, which agitated pro-mainland supporters. Saying that it was for her own safety, police bundled her into a van and drove her away from the torch's route - a drama well-documented by local and international media...