Word: yeh
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...tumble Guangdong province, scores of factories cluster together, their front yards choked with piles of twisted metal, junked plastic and old computer parts. But the killers who struck in the predawn hours of July 16 knew exactly which path would take them to their targets: Hou Kuo-li and Yeh Ming-yi, a pair of middle-aged businessmen from Taiwan who lived in the Lianjiao plant. Their bodies were discovered later that morning, along with those of two Chinese security guards and a 17-year-old female employee. According to news reports, all had their throats slit. A watchman...
...Taiwanese business community. The following day, Taiwanese managers of neighboring plants didn't show up for work. Many cleared out of town to lie low for a few days. Those who stayed behind spoke tensely. "We're here to do business," said Liao Mu-san, who like Hou and Yeh deals in scrap metals. "It's every man for himself...
...worrying for the community because the perpetrators may have been Taiwanese taking advantage of the relative lawlessness on the mainland. Chinese authorities say their prime suspects are Tu Ching-shui, 54, a convicted criminal from southern Taiwan, and his two sons. Reports in the local press say a dying Yeh, lying on the floor of his factory, used his own blood to scribble the Chinese characters for Ching-shui, only partially completing the surname Tu. Police say Tu had recently threatened the pair at gunpoint in a failed attempt to extort $36,000 from them. Tu and his sons...
...Although Yeh said he e-mailed information about the meeting to the mailing lists of several ethnic clubs, from the Asian American Association (AAA) to the Black Students' Association, the attendance was less than ethnically diverse...
...Traditionally at Harvard, the support hasn't been there" said Yeh...