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...vowed to fight the bills in parliament where, with the support of a splinter party, it holds a razor-thin majority. Party chairman Lien Chan blasted the proposed legislation as an act of "political liquidation" designed to deflect attention away from Taiwan's stalled economy and Chen's inability to establish meaningful dialogue with the nation's chief adversary, China...
...construction sites and mines.) In August 2001 a Kyoto court awarded compensation to 15 Korean workers forced aboard a naval ship that subsequently exploded and sank in 1945. And last year, a Tokyo court ordered the government to pay $170,000 to the son of the late Liu Lien-yen, a slave worker from China who escaped in July 1945 and spent the next 13 years living in the mountains of northern Hokkaido, unaware that Emperor Hirohito had surrendered...
...When we say ‘We’re the Radcliffe Pitches and we’re from Harvard,’ a lot of people don’t understand what that means,” says Lien. “We’ve definitely been introduced as the Harvard Pitches...
...seriously discussed becoming the Harvard Pitches, Lien says...
...There’s a lot of tradition tied to it,” Lien says...