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...CHARGED. LIU TAI-YING, 67, former Kuomintang treasurer; with perjury, graft, insider trading, and other offenses relating to several financial scandals; in Taipei. Liu, chairman of China Development Financial Holding Corp., was one of the most powerful figures in Taiwan's former ruling party during the 1990s. If convicted, he faces up to 16 years in jail. Liu's indictment is being taken as evidence that President Chen Shui-bian's administration is serious about its pledge to crack down on corruption...
...hero to all of us," says longtime friend, Wu Feng-ying, who worked alongside Chen at Taipei Municipal Hoping Hospital, where Chen contracted the virus. Bowing to public sentiment, Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou has decreed that Chen's name be added to the list on the Martyrs' Shrine...
...Feng-ying, nurses' supervisor in Hoping's chronic-disease ward, says she saw no evidence of a deliberate cover-up. In her view, the real problem was that "in the early days, the criteria for diagnosing SARS were unclear." Indeed, Wu now suspects her friend and colleague nurse Chen Ching-chiu contracted SARS while trying to resuscitate a patient who was only later discovered to have had the disease...
...When Ying joined Globe Telecom seven years ago, the firm, based near Manila, claimed about 130,000 subscribers. Today, as he departs, he is credited with helping build Globe to 7 million subscribers and $129 million in profit for 2002. Ying, 45, starts in May as COO of a larger telecom firm, Maxis Communications, based in Kuala Lumpur. First on the to-do list of this wine and cigar lover is integrating the recent acquisition of a rival firm, TimeCel...
...Some critics say politics played a role in Taiwan's sclerotic containment efforts?specifically, that a hostile relationship between President Chen and the mayor of Taipei, Ma Ying-jeou, made coordination difficult. Rivals for much of the past decade, Ma unseated Chen in Taipei's 1998 mayoral election, sending him into the political wilderness until his upset presidential victory in 2000. The relationship between the two plummeted to new lows during the recent mayoral race, with Ma and Chen trading insults throughout the campaign...