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...LEBANON The anti-Syrian opposition dismissed President Emile Lahoud's call for them to enter talks with loyalist factions, which came after a car bomb in Beirut injured 11 people, boosting fears of renewed bloodshed as Syrian troops start to withdraw. The Ties That Bind CHINA Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian condemned as a "law of aggression" Beijing's new antisecession legislation, which permits the use of "nonpeaceful means" against Taiwan if the island moves toward formal independence from the mainland. MEANWHILE IN FRANCE... A Piste of One's Own Lee Kun-hee, chairman of South Korean electronics giant Samsung...
...year after Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian and his running mate Annette Lu were wounded on the eve of the island's 2004 election, Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau announced last week that it had a suspect: Chen Yi-hsiung, an unemployed man who blamed the President for his economic woes. The only problem: Chen Yi-hsiung is dead. Police say he drowned off the southern city of Tainan 10 days after the March 19 shooting, a death now considered a suicide. It's a case with huge import: hours after the attempted assassination, President Chen won re-election...
...fundamentals of the nearly 60-year cross-strait standoff, and isn't likely to nix what appears to be a minor thaw between Beijing and Taipei. The recent Lunar New Year holiday saw the first nonstop commercial flights between the mainland and Taiwan, and last week Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian made a pact with James Soong, a rival politician who wants better ties with China, not to declare independence, change Taiwan's formal name from the Republic of China, or rule out eventual unification with China...
...evidence that Japan's new self-confidence extends even to the most sensitive of all matters in the region-the future of Taiwan. The island was a colony of Japan from 1895 to 1945 and ties between the two nations remain remarkably close. Advisers to Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian, whom Beijing loathes, happily describe Japan as an ally, while in Tokyo, political leaders such as Shinzo Abe, secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party and frequently tipped to be Koizumi's successor, have made no secret of their support for Taipei. Taiwan, Abe pointed out last year...
...outskirts is impractical and insensitive in a country that once served as a stomping ground for foreign imperialists. Granted, some of the towns have taken pains to modify their foreign themes with Chinese characteristics. In Pujiang, for instance, Italian architectural firm Gregotti Associati International has adopted everything from feng shui philosophy for window placement to extra bedrooms for the parents who often live with newlywed couples. But a Disneyland syndrome affects other suburbs. At Thames Town, one of the English-style developments that make up Songjiang New Town, an ad campaign advises that anyone fond of steeplechasing, Premier League soccer...