Word: taoyuan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much acclaimed Hong Kong International Airport for the generous amount of natural light it allows into the terminal. Lin warns that there can be serious consequences when qi is out of balance. After a fatal accident in 2000 involving a Singapore Airlines plane as it taxied around Taipei's Taoyuan International Airport, Lin was brought in to suggest what he terms "transcendental solutions" to correct flaws in the newly constructed second terminal...
Taiwan's President Chen Shui-Bian is a politician who is not afraid to pick a fight, even with China. But last week, at a rally in Taoyuan county for this Saturday's legislative election, Chen was playing peacemaker. Dressed down in a blue shirt open at the collar and a beige vest splashed with party slogans in green Chinese characters, Chen asked the throng of several thousand to give his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) the majority in the legislature that it currently lacks. If he gets it, pledged Chen, he would push to resume talks with Beijing...
...million voters fall broadly into two categories: those who see Taiwan's future as going it alone-the DPP's chief constituency-and those who don't want to provoke China by promoting independence for Taiwan-the traditional base for the DPP's archrival, the Kuomintang (KMT). But if Taoyuan voter Chou Hui-mei, a 45-year-old furniture importer, is anything to go by, Chen's strategy is having some success bridging that ideological gap. Chou's parents were mainlanders who fled to the island along with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists in 1949, and she herself was once...
...does not win the legislative election. Many pollsters believe that though the blue alliance might lose some seats, it may not be enough for a green majority-in which case the DPP will be forced to horse-trade with independent legislators to carry out its agenda. However, at the Taoyuan rally, for 53-year-old steelworker Fan Cheng-hung the bigger worry is that the loser will be Taiwan. "We deserve a country," he says, "not the aggression of the world's superpowers...
...senior party positions. It barred candidates tainted by accusations of corruption or who amassed "black-gold" fortunes through Mafia connections. Most important, it promoted a younger generation of stalwarts, especially three comers known by their collective nickname Ma-Li-Chiang, or "strong horsepower": Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou, Taoyuan county magistrate Chu Li-lun and Taichung mayor Jason Hu Chih-chiang. All are under 55, fluent in English and untouched by corruption scandals (unlike Lien, a multimillionaire whose family wealth critics have linked to his father's use of KMT connections...