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...anchor on Taiwan's ETTV news network, asked me during a June visit to Taipei. The term Chaiwan, she said, was the talk of Taipei. Turns out that the word, meant to connote the growing economic ties between China and Taiwan, was supposedly coined by the South Korean press. The Seoul Economic Daily, a Korean business newspaper, recently ran a series of articles under the banner: "The Chaiwan Storm Is Coming." One noted that "the combination of China's capital and Taiwan's high technology ... warns us of a powerful fusion of forces that cannot but present a threat...
...that killed 25 people. Even in a country that ranks second only to China in the number of people executed each year, such mass hangings are rare, and observers have suggested that the timing--they coincided with the announcement of a sweeping new set of restrictions on the domestic press--was meant to quell persistent unrest over the contested June 12 presidential election...
Those seeking to pay the bills through full-time journalism could find different paymasters. The Associated Press recently started taking investigative reports from four nonprofit journalism groups. And if newspapers can't afford investigations, advocacy groups and think tanks - which already hire research pros - could do their own: a kind of piecemeal return to the old partisan press...
...similarly-sized projects currently in development. To give you a sense of how big that is, the entire U.S. today has 29 gigawatts of installed wind power. Oil-tycoon-cum-wind-power-magnate T. Boone Pickens’ roadmap for energy independence, the "Pickens' Plan,"which got so much press last summer, involves only four gigawatts of wind...
...recordings were released by the Cambridge Police Department at a press conference Monday afternoon, where Police Commissioner Robert C. Haas, City Manager Robert W. Healy, and Mayor E. Denise Simmons reiterated their intent to use the experience not as a way to "make any official judgments on the actions of officers," but to identify lessons that can be applied to the policies, programs, and practices of the Department...