Word: yi
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...YI by Hannah Beech...
...reckons that China has 840,000 HIV-positive citizens, but the nation only recently admitted it had an epidemic. Last December, Wu descended from China's cloistered leadership compound and met one on one with the country's top AIDS activist, a retired country doctor named Gao Yaojie. "Wu Yi said to me, 'Now that everyone else is gone, you can tell me the truth,'" recalls Gao. Rather than bringing disaster, Wu is cleaning one up. --By Hannah Beech
...release them. But with the violence intensifying and the insurgents beginning to define their enemy targets more broadly, Asians are being forced to realize that this kind of nightmare is likely to recur?and that is leading many to reconsider the danger of getting caught in the cross fire. Yi Sung Phil, an official with South Korea's left-leaning Democratic Labor Party, sums up what is an increasingly widespread sentiment in Asia: "This is a fight between the United States and the Iraqi people, so we should stay...
...quit the KMT in 2000 and now supports independence. The DPP expects to win over alienated voters from the KMT's bentuhua side who are disturbed by their party's histrionic reaction to the election. "The biggest beneficiary of the election fiasco will be the DPP," predicts Tuan Yi-kang, a DPP legislator and strategist. Control of the legislature would grant Chen a freer hand to rewrite the constitution?something Beijing fears is an irreversible step toward formal independence...
...Eunice Yi, W. Fencing