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...daughters needed English and moved them to San Francisco. After graduating from a California public high school, CoCo returned to Asia. Though she lacked formal training in Chinese-language singing (she speaks Cantonese at home), she won second place in Hong Kong's annual New Talent Singing Contest. A minor Taiwan label gave her a recording contract and, after a fast course in Mandarin (the lingua franca of the recording industry in Taiwan, China and smaller markets in Singapore and Malaysia), she recorded a song that became a hit in Taiwan's karaoke bars. Within six months she had churned...
...cheese factory later, Heinecke has proved them wrong. (It turns out Thais do eat pizza, only they like to squirt ketchup all over it.) Capitalizing on Asia's new appetite for Western trends in food, fashion and entertainment, Heinecke morphed a single chain into the Bangkok-based Minor Group, a $300 million conglomerate of hotels, fast-food outlets and clothing franchises. But now the empire is under threat, and the challenge is coming from the business that started it all?pizza...
After a week of debate, the Senate had made two changes that really mattered; both would make life more comfortable for the few, the proud, the Senators. One would ensure that broadcasters give candidates the lowest rates possible for their campaign ads. Although most observers said the change was minor, Don Nickles of Oklahoma called it "a major gift to politicians." (It also stirred up the powerful broadcasting lobby, which could be hazardous to the bill's long-term health.) The second amendment would allow Senators to collect larger donations if they found themselves running against a rich opponent willing...
...hand-over of Hong Kong to mainland China is a relatively minor event among the emotional cataclysms in this short-story debut. Chiu refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers, inspired more by Kurt Cobain than by Buddha. The resulting chasm between the Chinese Americans and their immigrant parents is filled with disappointments, with tales of anorexia and homophobia, and that stubborn reluctance by young and old to see each other as each wishes to be seen...
...After a week of debate, the Senate had made two changes that really mattered; both would make life more comfortable for the few, the proud, the senators. One would ensure that broadcasters give candidates the lowest rates possible for their campaign ads. Although most observers said the change was minor, Don Nickles of Oklahoma called it "a major gift to politicians." (It also stirred up the powerful broadcasting lobby, which could be hazardous to the bill's long-term health.) The second amendment would allow senators to collect larger donations if they found themselves running against a rich opponent willing...