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...China's amicable stance toward its Asian neighbors was also on display earlier this month, when Wen Jiabao, China's smooth-talking Premier, traveled to an ASEAN confab in Bali. Instead of harping as usual about the Spratly Islands?tiny dots in the South China Sea that are claimed by China and several Southeast Asian nations?a smiling Wen instead urged greater economic cooperation through the establishment of a mutually beneficial trading bloc. Earlier this year, China also moved substantively to resolve a long-simmering border dispute with India?a big step for a nation that has had territorial disputes...
...presidential elections aroused concern on the mainland that democracy would draw the island further away from unification, Beijing reacted angrily by lobbing missiles over the Taiwan Strait. Four years later, the pro-independence background of Taiwan's current President Chen Shui-bian elicited a televised harangue by former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji on the eve of the presidential polls. But during this year's presidential walk-up, China has been strangely quiet, even though some of Chen's policies, such as a push for a new constitution, arouse suspicions that he is laying the groundwork for independence...
...Malaysia's other major selling point is its ability to perform difficult treatments. Among the most popularly requested operations are cardiac bypass surgery?the National Heart Institute is a leading center in the region?and fertility treatments, with the country's premier Damansara Fertility Centre claiming in vitro success rates that match top U.S. clinics...
Lingman, who worked with the same trainer that prominent American tennis players like Jim Courier and Michael Chang employed during their careers, trained extensively—jumping rope and doing water work, strength training and other cardiovascular work—to get in premier shape this summer...
Yong-In, founded in 1953 and located in the South Korean capital of Seoul, is one of the world’s premier institutions for education in the martial arts...