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...talking about safety, not business. There are some 300,000 Taiwanese on the mainland, many running factories, and they are learning that China is a dangerous place?for them in particular. Since Beijing regards Taiwan as a renegade province, Taiwanese have about the same standing as stateless people. Says Taipei's Deng Chen-chung, vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council: "We have to admit that there's little we can do for our Taiwanese businessmen in China." Taipei's powerlessness and Beijing's cold shoulder mean that businesspeople are "on their own, like orphans," according to Isao Chen, chairman...
...America's best film director, eh? Best--well, fine--but American? Lee, who was born and raised in Taiwan; who brings a very Mandarin delicacy to his subjects; who has shot most of his features in distant climes (Taipei for Pushing Hands and Eat Drink Man Woman, rural England for Sense and Sensibility, mainland China for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon); who has never made a movie in Hollywood; and whose name, correctly put, is Lee Ang...That...
...platforms, forgo association with a certain look so that they can morph with current styles. Others, like Alba Rosa and Me Jane, married their style to extreme looks of the past and paid the price: those loud colors and hibiscus flowers might be selling in Beijing and Taipei, but no one in Harajuku is wearing the stuff...
...Taiwan's morticians are crooked. And police say there is no conclusive proof that any of them have connections to Taiwan's largest organized crime gangs. But a walk down the Taipei street where the ramshackle offices of most of the city's funeral companies are located reveals a world that is at least murky, if not outright illicit. At the sight of a journalist, most of the morticians disappear through back doors or behave as if they are mute. One, Lo Shuan-lin of the Lucky Flower Village Funeral Co., complains his police informants are charging too much...
...forced funeral companies "to the edge of survival." Its authors promised to take three of Chen's underlings "for a ride," and added that "Director Wu can tell you a good story about how he got shot at." The reference is to a former director of the Taipei Office of Funeral Management (OFM) whose car window was smashed last year, presumably by a bullet. "Some of these funeral companies are run by gangsters," says Lin Liang-sheng, an OFM section chief. "But we have to keep fighting. We can't be scared...