Recent months have seen well-known independent bookstores close in Hong Kong after they were suspected of breaking various laws, but novel business models are seeing new ones emerge.
Each election cycle, a share of the island's 2 million overseas residents visit to cast their ballots, sometimes motivated by issues that resonate far less with locals.
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Passions on both sides of Taiwanese politics are as intense as Democrat versus Republican, sometimes leading to conflicts in families and workplaces. And that has carried over to the U.S. Even some who have lived here for decades are obsessed.