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Of mangoes and mistresses

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Nov 13, 2006
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Lin Bing-huang looked glumly down the street outside the Ocean Hotel he owns in downtown Hualien.

“From Monday to Friday I have few guests. We could fill the hotel with more mainlanders – but they steal the cups, towels and pillowcases and spit on the carpets. Do we really want them?”

A port city on the east coast of Taiwan, Hualien is capital of one of t…

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