Word: taipei
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Rudenstine continued his tour last Wednesday inthe newly Chinese city of Hong Kong. He iscurrently in Taipei, visiting with educationalofficials and local groups of Harvard alumni
Last Saturday, Feb. 28, was the 51st anniversary of what is known as the 2-28 incident. This date is etched in the souls of the Taiwanese people like the word "Holocaust" is in the history of the Jewish people. On that day, a woman in Taipei, Taiwan, was arrested and beaten to death for selling cigarettes without a license. This sparked island-wide protests that soon resulted in the brutal massacre of more than 20,000 Taiwanese at the hands of the Chinese Nationalist troops. These innocent people were murdered solely because they peacefully protested against the repressive...
...more than 200 banks for loans of $2.68 billion. For the next 17 months, C.H. Tung labored seven days a week to build a consensus among creditors to restructure the tangle of public and private companies. When he needed a large infusion of new capital, he turned to the Taipei government. The answer was no. Tung then approached mainland Chinese, and a local businessman with ties to Beijing kicked in the money. Only this year did Tung admit that the businessman's bailout funds came from the state-owned Bank of China...
...scrounging for money in those last frantic weeks, no one was asking a lot of questions. Which is why the beneficiaries don't know much about their donor's background. Raised in Taiwan, Young joined the Taiwan navy as a supply officer, studied engineering in England and returned to Taipei, where he started an aerospace consulting firm. He later moved to Hong Kong, where he keeps a picture of himself with Ronald Reagan hanging on his office wall. Young served as the Asian agent for several aviation companies, including Pratt & Whitney and, more informally, British Aerospace. Over the years...
Young, who is said to be in his 60s, is extremely private by the standards of Hong Kong tycoons. He has an office in Taipei and sits on the board of an aerospace company close to the ruling Nationalist government. He is known as "the man to see" if you want to get a hearing in Asian aerospace circles. Little else about him is publicly available--at least not yet. Last Friday, Haley Barbour received a new subpoena, this one asking for all records relating to the National Policy Forum. With Washington's investigations widening to include Republican backers...