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...mutineers made it to the South Korean mainland, hijacked a bus and tried to drive it to the Blue House, the President's official residence. Why they didn't just split up and rely on their survival skills to escape remains a mystery. The bus driver said the men spoke of seeking revenge against President Park, according to media accounts. Their quixotic run for it climaxed in a shoot-out with police. Hopelessly trapped, several escapees pulled out grenades and blew themselves up. Four who survived were later executed. (The Ministry of National Defense won't comment, and still denies...
...known for classics of the 40s and 50s like Dona Barbara, La Cucaracha and Enamorada, Felix married four times and had numerous lovers, the painter Diego Rivera among them. In the words of President Vicente Fox: "As an artist she gave everything to Mexico." DIED. YU CHI-CHUNG, 92, mainland-born founding publisher of Taiwan's China Times who followed Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to the island,but later stepped afoul of the KMT party line and became a staunch advocate of reunification with China; in Taipei. DIED. MALCOLM KALP, 63, former American diplomat to Iran...
Arrested by Taiwanese coastal police last month while trying to sneak across from the Chinese mainland, Lu Jing had only one question: "Is Zai Zai in Kaohsiung?" And with that one simple query, the 22-year-old from Fujian province became the unofficial...
...into the limelight last April with the launch of the show Meteor Garden on Taiwan's Chinese Television System. Women of all ages gushed over the romantic tale of a poor girl hooking up with a member of a rich brat-bully pack at an ?lite Taipei high school. (Mainland Chinese authorities were less enamored, saying it misled young viewers; Beijing recently banned the show after a few episodes aired on some local television stations.) The TV plot was adapted from a Japanese manga comic called Hana Yori Dango (Men Are Better Than Flowers). Chai, a variety-show producer, handpicked...
...SMAP and Tokio. But Taiwan's teens had not had a local boy band to worship since Little Tigers disbanded a decade ago, and 400,000 copies of Meteor Rain flew off the shelves; it sold more than 1 million Asia-wide. That success was quickly replicated on the mainland, where bootleg copies of the show, album and merchandise hit the streets...