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...plane. Hundreds of pro-independence supporters, accusing Lien of "selling out Taiwan," clashed with his well-wishers. Fists, stones and eggs were thrown. Old men were beaten to the ground. One man was struck with a nunchaku, the martial-arts fighting weapon. Afterward, tough-talking Vice President Annette Lu described the incident as "unfortunate," but said she wasn't too displeased about the international news coverage?because it emphasized that Taiwan was not united behind Lien's visit. "He is cooperating with the Communists to downgrade the President's legitimacy and power," she said. And Lien is not the only...
...Weihong (Zhang Jingchu), the rebellious sister who wants to become a paratrooper and is constantly at war with forces determined to keep her grounded; her slow-witted older brother Gao Weiguo (Feng Li), whose parents favor him as unabashedly as his co-workers mistreat him; and Gao Weiqiang (Lu Yulai), the dreamy narrator whose life is overshadowed by his two older siblings. All three characters?played by first-time actors?hover between childhood and adulthood. The Gaos march to their own time, refusing?or just failing?to follow the prescribed paths toward maturity. Weihong struggles to break free of social...
...year after Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian and his running mate Annette Lu were wounded on the eve of the island's 2004 election, Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau announced last week that it had a suspect: Chen Yi-hsiung, an unemployed man who blamed the President for his economic woes. The only problem: Chen Yi-hsiung is dead. Police say he drowned off the southern city of Tainan 10 days after the March 19 shooting, a death now considered a suicide. It's a case with huge import: hours after the attempted assassination, President Chen won re-election...
...common sentiment: a poll last Wednesday by the China Times newspaper found that only 21% of respondents believe the theory. Even Vice President Lu said last week that she thinks there were two shooters. Facing such doubts, the police are feeling hard-pressed to come up with an explanation that will satisfy critics. "All we can do is try to piece everything together," says Hou Yu-ih, head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau. As yet, a lot of pieces are still missing...
Chen and his lawyer, Shen-Sin Lu, responded by showing the Commission a stack of fake IDs that Chen had collected, saying that he asks everyone buying alcohol for two or three IDs. He also presented the Commission with a petition supporting his case, which he said was signed by over 700 people...