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Empresas y finanzas

Taiwan's first-family-to-be shuns limelight


    TAIPEI (Reuters) - Members of Taiwan president-elect Ma Ying-jeou's family are shunning the limelight and trying to go about their normal lives in spite of intense media interest after Ma won the election by a landslide last weekend.

    Ma's banking lawyer wife Christine Chow has continued totake the bus to work as she normally does, even with cameracrews from the island's feisty television stations followingher on board and taping her as she topped up her bus fare cardat a convenience store.

    Major Taiwanese newspapers plastered on their front pagespictures of Chow getting on and off the bus with othercommuters.

    "Ma's wife takes the bus -- stands listening to mp3", theChinese language United Daily News wrote on Tuesday in aheadline on its second page, most of which was devoted to Chow.

    "Don't call me the president's wife, call me department