Word: taipei
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...Friday night flight from Hong Kong to Taipei is atwitter with excitement. It's full, but not with the factory managers and motherboard sales reps you might expect. Crammed into the aisle seat beside my girlfriend, a young woman is touching up her makeup. Meeting someone special? "I'm seeing friends," says Coco, a 27-year-old clerk in a Hong Kong jewelry store. She snaps her compact shut and leans over to confide with a broad smile, "We're going...
...Taipei's great food, hip nightlife and gritty music scene are attracting young urbanites from across Asia. And no wonder. It has become an around-the-clock city with half a dozen bustling night markets, a shiny new 24-hour mall, and an educated, jaded and demanding population of young professionals. In these girdle-tightening times, it's also refreshingly affordable. The battered New Taiwan dollar makes a dinner bill resemble the tab for a light snack in Hong Kong. Getting there doesn't break the bank, either: I found a weekend package from Hong Kong for less than...
...exactly taxing." A retired civil servant, Law is lobbying for the maids to receive a 15% pay cut on the grounds that their home currencies are devalued and Hong Kong's economy is weak. He points out that maids in Hong Kong make as much as those in Taipei, and 2.5 times what they earn in Singapore...
Being stuck behind bars didn’t keep a Taipei politician from getting elected to a seat in Taiwan’s parliament Saturday. Accused of attempted murder and corruption, he is serving a term of 20 years...
...girlfriend Vicky. "That's why you don't understand my world." Don't blame the poor girl: nobody else gets it either, and that includes both Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien and, very likely, his audience. Hou has swapped his wonted rural palette for the urban hip of Taipei, but for all his efforts to capture the contemporary, Mambo feels mute...