Word: taipei
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...activists that helped bring democracy to Taiwan in the 1980s, Chen insists that the timing of his detention - shortly after a historic visit from a high-ranking Chinese official to Taiwan - expose that the Taiwan's authorities have been biased against him. While being held at the Taipei Detention Center, Chen has been drawing public attention to his cause through extended hunger strikes, writing poetry, and publishing his memoir. And some, including Chuang Rui-hsiung, a criminal procedure lawyer in Taipei, agree with the former leader's argument. "People should be treated innocent until proven guilty," Chuang says. "They shouldn...
...Once booming businesses are resorting to desperate discounting to try to keep customers coming. In Hong Kong, 1,000 restaurants have joined together to offer dishes such as dim sum and roast pigeon for one Hong Kong dollar (about 13 cents). In Taipei, Taiwan's capital, fast-food chain KFC held a press conference last month to announce 50% discounts on every second meal ordered, only to have McDonald's employees interrupt by parading with signs promoting $2 lunch specials...
...British Museum staged exhibitions on the history of the Games in Shanghai and Hong Kong, sending more than 110 invaluable items, including the 2nd century marble statue The Discus Thrower, which the museum had never allowed overseas. And on Feb. 16, the directors of Beijing's Palace Museum and Taipei's National Palace Museum brokered a deal to send Chinese imperial artifacts to Taiwan for the first time in 60 years. In a show scheduled to open in October, the pieces will be reunited with objects taken by nationalists when they fled the mainland after losing China's civil...
...crucial, policymakers believe, because Taiwan's chipmakers are simply too important to the economy, which specializes in manufacturing gear like notebook PCs. "It's bad for the whole high-tech industry here if the DRAM industry fails," says Lu Cheng-chin, an official at the industrial development bureau at Taipei's Ministry of Economic Affairs...
...Underemployed workers don't necessarily see it that way. Last month, hundreds of them protested forced-leave policies in front of the Council of Labor Affairs in Taipei. Since then, the council, a government agency, has required employers to amend employee contracts to reflect the reduced hours and to guarantee that income stays above minimum wage for workers facing severe cuts...