Word: yuan
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...Chen's wife, Yuan Weijing, who has been under house arrest herself for months, was equally stunned by the harsh sentence. Each day, she says, her three-year-old son tells her he doesn't want to start supper until his father comes home. "Today," she told TIME by cell phone, "I had to tell my child that his father won't be joining him for dinner for a long time...
...Taste of Freedom Thank you for Chiu Hei-Yuan's viewpoint "Growing Pains" [June 26], on Taiwan's political mess. As a native of Taiwan, I have always been very proud of our bloodless transition from Chiang Kai-shek's authoritarianism to full-fledged democracy. Democracy means nothing less than all the political, press and religious freedoms we currently enjoy. It certainly does not mean having a totalitarian dictatorship appoint an unelected administrator for us. But the Chinese Communist Party thinks it is possible to impose such fake democracy-its "one country, two systems" policy-on Taiwan. The party...
...expensive eats here, serving meals that might cost up to three or four U.S. dollars. And the prices for luxury items rival those of American stores. But for all its commercialism, it’s hard to believe that the minimum wage is in Luoyang is about 300 yuan per month, equivalent to about $37. It’s especially difficult to imagine what this means while volunteering at the Luoyang Welfare Institute, a state-run home for 500 orphans and foundlings, a majority of them disabled. What does it mean to buy three packs of macaroni for an arts...
...domestic front, Chen's efforts to govern and reform have often been blocked by the opposition-controlled legislature. It has yet to confirm his nominees for president and vice-president of the Control Yuan, Taiwan's highest watchdog body, even though the posts have been vacant for more than a year. It has opposed the creation of an ethics and anticorruption bureau, a bill that would force political parties to be more transparent about their assets, and changes in the judiciary that would make the courts more efficient...
...could change if Chen or his wife become directly linked to illegal activities, notes Sheng, which might cause a critical mass of DPP members to join calls for his ouster. "The DPP can tolerate poor government performance, but it can't tolerate corruption within the First Family," says Hei-yuan Chiu, a sociologist at Academia Sinica, a state-funded research institute...