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...eight seniors honored were Deepa B. Dhume ’05, Yi-An Huang ’05, Jane Kim ’05, Saritha Komatireddy ’05, Joy C. Lin ’05, Vinod E. Nambudiri ’05, Shaw Natsui ’05, and Quang T. Tran ’05. Lui said that the selection committee, composed of non-senior heads of Asian groups, received many nominations from which eight final recipients were selected...
...Vice Admiral Wang Hsi-ling, the former head of Taiwan's military intelligence bureau, guilty of plotting the murder of Chinese- American Writer Henry Liu, who was gunned down at his Daly City, Calif., home last Oct. 15. The sentence: life imprisonment. Wang's two aides, Major General Hu Yi-min, deputy director of the bureau, and Colonel Chen Hu-men, another Defense Ministry official, were each given 2½-year jail terms. The verdicts came ten days after the leader of Taiwan's powerful Bamboo Union Gang, Chen Chi-li, and his lieutenant, Wu Tun, were sentenced in a civilian...
...year after Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian and his running mate Annette Lu were wounded on the eve of the island's 2004 election, Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau announced last week that it had a suspect: Chen Yi-hsiung, an unemployed man who blamed the President for his economic woes. The only problem: Chen Yi-hsiung is dead. Police say he drowned off the southern city of Tainan 10 days after the March 19 shooting, a death now considered a suicide. It's a case with huge import: hours after the attempted assassination, President Chen won re-election...
...Working off a tip identifying Chen Yi-hsiung from video footage shot near the attack, authorities spent months tracing the bullets used in the attack to an illegal gunmaker, and then to Chen Yi-hsiung. Investigators questioned his family, who police say burned suicide notes that may have explained his actions. (His wife later appeared in a video apologizing for her husband's crime.) But President Chen's foes claim that the assassination attempt was engineered to win sympathy votes?and with Chen the suspect dead, they argue that the investigators' findings are impossible to prove. "The police reasoning...
...human living quarters and sold live at unhygienic wet markets. In neighboring countries Thailand and Vietnam, such conditions led to the stubborn spread of bird flu, first among poultry, then in a handful of human beings. So far, Cambodia hasn't reported any major outbreaks, but Dr. Guan Yi, an avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong, fears it may already be entrenched there. "This virus is not just endemic in Vietnam and Thailand," he says. "In countries like Cambodia they don't have a systematic surveillance program, so we don't know yet. But I'm sure...