Word: tiene
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...Hong Kong person running Hong Kong?which is a cornerstone of "one country, two systems"?even if China's leaders actually call the shots. But they don't know the new Chief Executive as well as they would like. "He has to prove himself to Beijing," says James Tien, head of the pro-business Liberal Party...
...Hong Kong's democracy is still immature, and it has shown. The candidates were civil, pragmatic, unwilling to waste time?the virtues that make Hong Kong great. The flip side of all that, however, was a tendency not to probe issues deeply, a certain lack of political seriousness. James Tien, head of the pro-business Liberal Party and textile scion, maintained that democracy really means affluence of the kind Hong Kong has come to expect and that the needs of the hour are stability and tending of the economy. "Does having one man-one vote give you that good life...
...druthers system. "I'll take a jacket from my closet and think, I wish this had a looser fit or different pockets," she says. "My design inspiration comes from my own closet, my own thighs, my own life. It's business, but it's personal." --By Ellen Tien...
...five former Soviet republics in Central Asia were in a beauty contest, Kyrgyzstan would win. This becomes obvious as you rumble down 30 kilometers of tarmac into Bishkek. The snow-capped Tien Shan mountains rear up like a tsunami. But unlike Nepal or other lauded upland destinations, this country and its capital are still an unknown quantity...
...Smoke of Kyrgyzstan - a country that makes up in character what it lacks in vowels. If the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia were in a beauty contest, Kyrgyzstan would win. This becomes obvious as you rumble down 30 km of tarmac into Bishkek. The snow-capped Tien Shan Mountains rear up like a tsunami. But unlike Nepal or other lauded upland destinations, this country and its capital are still an unknown quantity. Unknown, at least, to tourists, because they're pretty familiar to the French, Dutch, American and Norwegian troops from the U.S.-led antiterror coalition camped...