Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...envisions an artists' "village" in Taipei, providing a creative hub for the city's spring arts festival. One place to draw artists from is Boston, with its Tanglewood music center...
...also looking to expand student exchange programs. As it is, many students in Taipei come to the U.S. for graduate school, but Ma would like to set up formal programs in which host cities will help with students' living expenses and native cities with travel expenses...
...even Ma's push for a Taipei renaissance doesn't free Taipei from the region's political tensions...
...enmity that divides them. The second worst quake to hit the island this century measured 7.6 on the Richter scale ? the recent disastrous tremor in Turkey was 7.4 ? and struck hardest in the central Nantou and Taichung counties, although a hotel and other buildings were destroyed in the capital, Taipei...
...Despite mounting tension between Beijing and Taipei over the island's status, President Jiang Zemin immediately offered aid and condolences to the victims, and China's Red Cross began allocating funds and relief supplies for the island. The quake "hurt the hearts of people on the mainland as the Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are as closely linked as flesh and blood," China's official news agency quoted Jiang as saying. But assistance from Beijing may turn out to be a political hot potato, because unlike Greece and Turkey, which have recently managed to overcome some...