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Chu Mei-feng

Taiwanese politician Chu Mei-feng became famous in December 2001 when a video of her having sex with a married man was distributed on CD by Taiwan's Scoop magazine. Chu was a Taipei city councillor…

Li Shaomin, 2001 News

U.S.-based Chinese scholars, were convicted in July of spying for Taiwan in a Beijing court and sentenced to 10 years in prison. In a related case, Li Shaomin, a naturalized U.S. citizen who…

Winter Olympics: 2006 Competing Countries

86 countries are participating in the Torino Winter Olympics Related Links 2006 Winter OlympicsTorino Preview2006 Medal Standings by CountryWinter Olympics Through The Years HistoryAll-Time…

Wen Ho Lee, 2000 News

59, Taiwan-born American Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist, was virtually exonerated in Aug. of stealing coveted secrets about the design and construction of the U.S.'s nuclear…

Jerry Yang Biography

Jerry YangInternet entrepreneur Born: 1968Birthplace: Taiwan A former Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Stanford University, Yang and classmate David Filo founded Yahoo in 1994 as a…

The Bribe Payers' Index

The Bribe Payers' Index ranks the 30 leading exporting countries according to the degree to which their companies are perceived to be paying bribes abroad…

Madame Chiang Kai-shek

Name at birth: Soong Mei-lingBorn in China and educated in the United States, Soong Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek in 1927 and went on to become an internationally famous advocate for her husband'…

Wen Ho Lee, 1999 News

59, Taiwan-born American scientist, was fired from his job at Los Alamos National Laboratory in March for allegedly passing on classified information on the W-88 nuclear warhead technology…

World's Tallest Skyscrapers: A Brief History

The Empire State Building, built in 1931, was the world's tallest skyscraper for 41 years until it was surpassed in 1972 by the World Trade Center (1,368 ft, 110 stories). Two years later, the Sears…

Wen Ho Lee

After growing up in Taiwan, Wen Ho Lee moved to the United States in 1965 to continue studying engineering. He became a U.S. citizen in 1974, and in 1978 he took a job as a scientist in weapons…