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...diaspora, I can relate my own boyhood to Chang's photos of rural Taiwan. Life has improved greatly, and what surrounded me back in the old days is all long gone. Through Chang's black-and-white photos, a brief history of Taiwan is on display. Roger Cheng Taipei...
...CHARGED. LIU TAI-YING, 67, former Kuomintang treasurer; with perjury, graft, insider trading, and other offenses relating to several financial scandals; in Taipei. Liu, chairman of China Development Financial Holding Corp., was one of the most powerful figures in Taiwan's former ruling party during the 1990s. If convicted, he faces up to 16 years in jail. Liu's indictment is being taken as evidence that President Chen Shui-bian's administration is serious about its pledge to crack down on corruption...
...hero to all of us," says longtime friend, Wu Feng-ying, who worked alongside Chen at Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital, where Chen contracted the virus. Bowing to public sentiment, Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou has decreed that Chen's name be added to the list on the Martyrs' Shrine...
...Taiwan, however, needs fewer martyrs and more heroes. Last Monday, the island was shaken by news that nearly 150 frightened doctors and nurses in Taipei and in the southern city of Kao-hsiung had resigned, at a time when they are needed most. On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) removed Hong Kong and Guangdong from its infamous travel-advisory list, confident that these former hot zones had contained the disease. But in Taiwan, the epidemic shows little sign of letting up as the number of SARS cases on the island rose in seven days from...
...Health officials in Taipei insist they are now doing everything by the book. They claim that effective infection-control measures currently in place in hospitals mean that the load of new cases will soon decrease. Most of last week's reported spike, says Taiwan's Center for Disease Control chief Su Yi-jen, were the result of a backlog of 545 patients that had not been processed?meaning the victims were infected before new safety standards were introduced. "We're at the stage when we're about to come down," he says...