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When James Soong left the Kuomintang (KMT) prior to Taiwan's 2000 presidential race, he essentially handed the election to Chen Shui-bian and his upstart Democratic Progressive Party. Soong, running as an independent, outpolled the KMT's nominee, then-Vice President Lien Chan, 36.8% to 23.1%. Chen, however, took 39.3%, putting an end to more than 50 years of KMT rule. But three years in the political wilderness seem to have thawed the friction between Soong and Lien, and?on Valentine's Day, appropriately enough?they announced that they would join forces against Chen in the next election...
...movie star looks and squeaky clean image. What's more, he's a member of the Kuomintang Party (KMT), which ruled Taiwan for 51 years before being voted out of power two years back. The current thinking is that Ma could present a strong challenge to President Chen Shui-bian, possibly heralding the return of the KMT. That would be an epochal event for the island's nascent, ever-evolving democracy, signaling either a revival of the cash-rich party's hegemony or, at the least, the start of a two-party system. The mainland would certainly be watching...
...percent of the vote, a larger percentage than he did four years ago, when he narrowly defeated the current president and then-incumbent Shui-Bian Chen. Voter turnout was about 70 percent...
...confined to fancy homes. Such features as media rooms and home offices can be found in many of the 209 homes ranging in price from $130,000 to $180,000 that Centex is building in the fast-growing Dallas suburb of McKinney. Another surprise: Centex's designs are feng shui friendly. The Oriental philosophy of maximizing the chi, or energy, of a building through its design is a must for Asian buyers, and it is crossing into the Western mainstream...
...surprisingly, the man trying to knock down the barrier is Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) broke the KMT's longstanding stranglehold on power in March 2000 elections. Chen last month made good on an election promise when his cabinet introduced legislation barring political parties from investing in profit-making enterprises. The bills, if passed by Taiwan's parliament, would also give the government the go-ahead to open the KMT's books and seize assets deemed to have been obtained illegally...