Pride and publicity

Article Abstract:

China is bidding to host the 27th Olympic Games in Peking. If Peking is chosen as the host city for the Olympics to be held in the year 2000, then the city would probably undergo a massive reconstruction program that would lead to the destruction of buildings built in the Chinese architectural tradition. The lifestyles of the city's residents would also change. China would be making a profit of $100 million dollars from the Games. However, city residents would be grumbling over the imposition of new taxes that would be needed to finance the construction projects for the Olympics.

International aspects, Olympics

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Wise guy: a decade in American prisons gives a gang member some novel insights

Article Abstract:

Gangland apologist Zhang An-Lo claims the Bamboo Union, a leading Taiwan triad of which he is a member, and the other Brothers are involved only in violence, not corruption, and typically get the blame for others' wrongdoing. He returned home in 1995 to found the Strategy Group import-export company, after spending a decade in US federal prisons for heroin trafficking. He claims that his imprisonment was a set-up in retaliation for exposing misdeeds in Taiwan's presidential palace, and draws on his insights to critique US society.

Taiwan, Management, Personal narratives, Column, Crimes against, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Crime, Organized crime, Assassination, Zhang An-lo, Liu, Harry

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Two-edged sword

Article Abstract:

Two recent libel cases in China suggest that claimants with strong connections are learning how to use the country's libel laws to suppress the media. Members of the Chinese press are also filing cases in the courts involving their right to cover the news without undue interference from the government. Observers say that strict libel laws could prove a more useful tool against an abusive press than government censorship.

Laws, regulations and rules, Libel and slander

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