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...Chen Shui-bian. With supporters of his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) disillusioned by a spate of corruption scandals involving Chen's family members and close advisers, and with the opposition calling loudly for his resignation, 64% of respondents to a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by market-research company TNS said Chen should step down. Of those who want him out of office, 32% identified themselves as supporters of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party. But more than half claimed no political affiliation. And even among the DPP supporters who participated in the poll, a third said Chen should step down...
...then selling them high-margin nonfood items like TVs and home furnishings. And he has successfully developed both mammoth one-stop stores and more modest convenience shops. The strategy has left rivals playing catch-up: Tesco boasts a 31% slice of the British grocery market, according to research firm TNS Worldpanel. Running a distant second, with 16%, is ASDA, owned by Wal-Mart...
...Berlin, 87% of young people aged 18 to 30 said they were in favor of marriage n favor of marriage, 90% said they wanted (or would probably want) children and 80% believed in one true love. All of that is "a reaction," according to Ulrich Schneekloth, a researcher at TNS Infratest Social Research in Munich, against "the excessive individualization" of the 1968 generation. Conservative politicians have already tuned in to that social change. "The values of the 1950s are very important to us," Dieter Althaus, 47, the cdu Governor of Thuringia and a confidante of Merkel, told Time last month...
...week's end, no progress was made in expanding the Security Council but, according to a TIME/CNN poll conducted in four major Indian metropolises by market-research company TNS, Indians agree that their nation will deserve more respect in the future. Three quarters of the respondents asserted that India would develop into a superpower within the next quarter-century. More than 40% of those polled said they thought Bombay?already home to the world's most prolific film industry?would one day eclipse Hollywood as the global entertainment capital. The poll also suggests that Singh should concentrate on the domestic...
...TIME/CNN poll conducted by market-research firm TNS in 12 nations across Asia last month, more that half of those who replied said they were sanguine about the prospect of an increasingly powerful Japan, with more than 60% of respondents in Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam approving of its growing clout. But in South Korea and Hong Kong?places that still bear grudges over Japan's harsh wartime occupation?a majority of those polled were worried. Asians were also less than enthusiastic about Japan's ambition to become a permanent member of the Security Council; only 49% felt it deserves...