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...Close Call TAIWAN Hundreds of thousands of people in Taipei protested the presidential election, which incumbent Chen Shui-bian won by a margin of just 0.2%. Chen's opponent, Kuomintang (KMT) leader Lien Chan, claimed that the poll had been marred by vote rigging and the shooting attack on Chen the day before the vote. Chen agreed in principle to KMT demands for a recount, but rejected Lien's call for a new election...
...tells of how three women from different generations in Taipei react when faced with crises of the heart. The only Chinese movie to be selected for this year's Berlin Film Festival, 20:30:40 goes down like a happy-hour Cosmopolitan?a nice antidote to the castor oil of the typical Taiwan art-house flick. "This is not a grand story. It doesn't have a big theme," Chang says. "I just wanted to let the audience see how modern Chinese women...
...With the help of $300,000 from a Taiwan government-sponsored film fund and backing from Columbia Pictures Asia, Chang was able to start filming, though she had to scale back her original concept of setting the three stories in Beijing, Taiwan and Hong Kong, instead shooting everything in Taipei...
...difficulties began. With SARS at full strength during the filming last spring, Chang had to hurry to capture a cameo spot by Tony Leung Ka-fai to avoid the quarantine measures Taiwan was about to impose on travelers from Hong Kong. When Chang wanted to shoot a scene at Taipei's airport, officials allowed in only 50 cast and crew members?a paltry number to simulate an airport throng. "I was thinking maybe a flight would come in, and there could be people in the background," Chang says. "But all the flights were canceled. The airport was empty...
Kirby, who is also the Geisinger professor of history and a noted scholar of modern China, said during his time away from Harvard, he spoke with alumni groups in Hong Kong, Taipei, Los Angeles and San Francisco. His trip to Asia was appropriately timed to coincide with Chinese New Year celebrations...