Word: taipei
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...parties took place twice a week in a three-room apartment, soundproofed for the sake of the neighbors, on Taipei's hopping Nongan Street. The guests?all of them men?paid $7.50 apiece, then stripped down to their underpants, depositing their street clothes in lockers at the door. When Taipei police crashed one of the parties two Saturdays ago in search of illicit drugs, they found what they were looking for: ecstasy, ketamine and marijuana. They also found 92 guys in their Skivvies, plus substantial numbers of used and unused condoms. The headlines the next day described a HALF-NAKED...
Piracy is so rampant in parts of Asia that even the pirates have problems with piracy. In Taipei, a copy of Samurai purchased over the phone for $1.76 features the logo "HLW production team/Production: KC" in the upper right-hand corner of the image. The group attached its pirate mark so it can police its own product, speculates Michael Ellis, vice president of Asia-Pacific antipiracy operations for the M.P.A.A. "From a criminal point of view, if someone is taking away your market share, that's a problem." (The Chinese-character subtitles were not always of professional quality. When...
...Taiwan is now bracing itself for what lies ahead. At best, analysts in Taipei claim, Bush's comments were merely rhetoric to give Wen something substantial to take home to appease the hard-liners in China's military who are baying for a fight with Taiwan. At worst, says Parris Chang, a co-chairman of Taiwan's parliament's foreign relations committee, it's the first step towards a significant U.S. policy switch on Taiwan. "We have to wait and see if the substance changes," says Chang. "Of course, we hope this is rhetoric and nothing else. There...
...pressure Chen to step back, Washington last week dispatched its top National Security Council official for Asia, James Moriarty, to Taipei to ask Chen to cool it over the sovereignty issue and, according to a senior official in Chen's administration, "urge us not to miss the sense of urgency" in Beijing's reaction. "The U.S. conveyed a message to us that had come directly from China," says the official. The warning worked?to a degree. Chen reiterated a commitment made at his inauguration in 2000 to not change Taiwan's status and vowed that any referendum would not touch...
...APPROVED. TAIWAN REFERENDUM LAW, passed by the island's legislature, which for the first time will allow Taiwanwide referendums, a gesture of sovereignty that could rile Beijing, which maintains that Taiwan is part of China; in Taipei. President Chen Shui-bian had supported a broad measure that would have allowed a plebiscite on any constitutional changes, but the opposition Kuomintang managed to pass a law that prohibits a vote on constitutional issues and independence (unless Taiwan is attacked by the mainland...