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...Lungshan Temple and wandered through the National Palace Museum, with its imperial art treasures from Beijing's Forbidden City. The 13 tourists were, in fact, not much different from millions of others who visit Taiwan. But their trip last month was historic. They were the first citizens of mainland China allowed to visit Taiwan as tourists in more than 50 years...
...visit, made possible when Taiwan decided in November to open the way to mainland tourists (only a few, including those on business or affiliated with trade delegations, were allowed before), is being touted as a friendly attempt to improve cross-strait relations. But the going is slow. Taiwan is initially allowing only mainland tourists who are living or studying outside China. Still, the visit is the latest sign that tensions are easing. In a speech late last month, Beijing's top foreign policy czar indicated that he would have no problem if members of Taiwan's ruling party were...
...parts for Sony's market-leading PlayStation video-game console and its final assembly take place there. In fact, of more than 1,000 companies surveyed by the Japan External Trade Organization, 42% said they are considering shifting some or all of their manufacturing operations to the mainland. Labor is cheap, of course. But also, according to Tadashi Matsumoto, senior vice president in charge of manufacturing for Toshiba Corp., Chinese workers "are more highly motivated and harder working compared to the Japanese...
...accused soldiers discusses how German POWs were allowed in Georgian movie theaters and diners, whereas he himself was not allowed to enter, even while in uniform. The discrepancy between the American quest to end the Nazi racial program and its own discriminatory racial policy in America’s mainland is a harrowing concept that is nicely illustrated in the film...
...BORN. To comic actor EDDIE MURPHY and his wife, NICOLE, a daughter, Bella Zahra; in Los Angeles. She is the couple's fifth child. SENTENCED. LAI KWONG-KEUNG, 38, to two years in prison after he was found guilty of smuggling some 30,000 Bibles into mainland China for a banned Christian sect; by a court in Fuqing. The Hong Kong businessman's conviction was decried by activists and religious groups, and was upheld despite concern expressed by U.S. President George W. Bush...