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Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian has survived an assassin's bullet, massive opposition demonstrations and two legislative recall motions seeking to remove him from office. But after Taiwan High Court prosecutors indicted First Lady Wu Shu-chen on corruption and forgery charges last Friday, Chen now faces the biggest challenge yet to his presidency...
...Conventional wisdom has held that Chen could stay in power as long as none of the long-swirling corruption allegations involving friends and family stuck to him or his wife. That scenario has now come to pass. Prosecutors say Wu used others' receipts to falsely claim $450,000 from a state fund. Three presidential aides were also charged, and Chen himself was listed as an accomplice and could face charges upon leaving office, when he loses presidential immunity. Amid renewed demonstrations against Chen in Taipei, Ma Ying-jeou, head of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT), vowed a third recall motion...
...oriental. These bent notes had the effect of building to this mid-concerto, multi-cultural moment, in which Mozart and the Zhou dynasty cross. The rest of the program was more traditional Chinese music. The second piece was an arrangement of “Wine Madness” by Wu Tong, a member of the Silk Road Ensemble. Tong, a rock star in China with chart-toping vocals, was also the star of Tuesday’s performance. He stole the show whenever he sang or played his sheng—a mouth organ made of a ring of bamboo...
...sanctions from those adopted by the Security Council. Some reported inspection of truck traffic at the border aside, it's pretty much business as usual between China and North Korea. "We need to make North Korea realize it will pay a high price [for testing nuclear weapons]," said Wu Bangguo, deputy leader of China's ruling Communist Party on Monday. But, he added, "We cannot force North Korea into a tight corner...
...honestly, if I were them, I would be just as upset as they are,” she says. “I don’t think Massachusetts should put those claims on students.” A MATTER OF JUSTICE?Yiyang “Yaya” Wu ’07 was summoned for jury duty in the summer of 2004. She says she waited four hours at the courthouse and was sent home without getting an interview. Since then, she has also been summoned for jury duty in her home state of Maryland...