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...items like CDs, travel tickets and computers, the more points you receive toward free gifts. The idea is to promote "stickiness," the ability to keep users hanging around your site. Stickiness builds online communities, which attract advertisers. The trilingual (Korean, Chinese, English) site maintains offices in Seoul, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore and Silicon Valley. Hau hopes Helloasia.com will be profitable by October. After that, the partners will think about an IPO, probably...
...China" policy that recognizes Beijing as the government of a single Chinese sovereign entity that includes Taiwan, while at the same time committing Washington to defend Taiwan against any aggression by that same government. But with tensions raised by election-season rhetoric both in Taiwan and the U.S., Taipei's military shopping list leaves Washington facing the unhappy choice of provoking a backlash either from Beijing or from Taiwan's vocal supporters on Capitol Hill...
...China policy fashioned by Nixon and Henry Kissinger has been sustained precisely because it's a kind of geopolitical don't-ask-don't-tell, which can mean different things to each side: Beijing interprets it as meaning the mainland ultimately rules Taiwan; the nationalist government in Taipei has long contented itself with the fiction that "One China" means it is the legitimate government of all of China. Beijing may issue threats and even move troops around, but it can't afford to risk the humiliation of losing a military standoff - and it's far from a foregone conclusion that...
...pristine--white sand, yellow boulders, coral reefs and gently slapping waves. You can rent a bungalow for $5 a day. The boys and girls seem to be young, thin and beautiful. They convene from all over the globe: club kids from London, bar hostesses from Tokyo, English teachers from Taipei, tech refugees from Silicon Valley--all looking to partake of this new civilization on the island that has become synonymous with hedonistic decadence...
...little impact on U.S. elections, but U.S. electioneering may well have consequences for Washington's foreign policy. House Republicans overwhelmingly passed legislation Wednesday calling for direct military ties between the U.S. and Taiwan and annual assessments of the island's security status that would ease arms-sales restrictions to Taipei. Beijing, naturally, reacted with alarm, and the White House made clear it would work the Senate to stop the bill from passing. "The White House reaction isn't surprising, since there's a longstanding arrangement with Beijing that they won't threaten Taiwan as long as the status...