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...love of a girl or how much it hurt to lose her), and the boy band disappeared before I could figure it all out. But the days accompanied by their songs, which now seem totally cheesy to me, are just as fresh as yesterday. Chi-Shan Lee Taipei India's War on AIDS You described India's growing AIDS crisis [June 6]. But the AIDS epidemic is a global problem that demands a unified, worldwide solution. It is not only the responsibility of nations where AIDS is most prevalent or of philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation...
...constant memory of the years of foreign humiliation. The National People's Congress, China's docile parliament, recently passed a resolution authorizing military intervention if Taiwan declares formal independence, but the U.S. has pledged to defend Taiwan from unprovoked attack. In the past few months, relations between Beijing and Taipei have improved after a dangerously frosty winter, but the tensions across the Taiwan Strait will require constant--and subtle--engagement by the U.S. if they are not to flare up again...
Sitting in the cafeteria of the National Taiwan University in Taipei last week, M.B.A. candidate Fan Po-yu is considering his future?150 km across the Taiwan Strait, in China. In classes, Fan, 23, is learning how to conduct business on the mainland. After-hours, more experienced friends tell him how to conduct himself once he gets there. (Don't talk politics; if someone asks about Taiwan's disputed status as a renegade Chinese province, shut up.) Regardless of the tricky politics, Fan's eyes are set firmly on China. "It's where the opportunities...
...visiting head of state, which he isn't. Taiwan's President is Chen Shui-bian, and he and his supporters want to stand up to China, not cozy up. Chen actually endorsed Lien's trip at the last minute. But the phoniness of that rapprochement was on display at Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek International Airport the morning Lien boarded the plane. Hundreds of pro-independence supporters, accusing Lien of "selling out Taiwan," clashed with his well-wishers. Fists, stones and eggs were thrown. Old men were beaten to the ground. One man was struck with a nunchaku, the martial...
...Harmony Silk Factory doesn't strain to be The Great Malaysian Novel. That's a deliberate decision by Aw, 33, who considers himself "100% Malaysian," though born in Taipei (to Malaysian-Chinese parents), raised in Kuala Lumpur, educated at Cambridge and now resident in London. "I didn't set out to incorporate any particularly Malaysian themes," Aw said from New York City, where he was on a promotional tour. "My intention was to demolish the Malaysian historical novel of the 1930s and '40s, as influenced by Somerset Maugham. You know, the idea that there are only two versions of Malaysia...