posted on March 16, 2004 09:29:47 AM new
TAIPEI (Reuters) - President Chen Shui-bian could lose Taiwan's closely fought presidential election this month by a nose.
With a prediction based on Chen's small nose, fortune teller Fan Yun dismissed the Taiwan leader's chances of winning a second term in the March 20 presidential election.
For Fan, the future is written all over Chen's face, an important measure of an individual's fortune in Chinese society.
"The size of a leader's nose has a direct relation to the fortunes of the country they lead," said Fan, who mans one of the many small fortune-telling booths that line a pedestrian underpass near the Hsin Tien Temple in Taipei.
"Everything about Chen's face is small and that's why the last four years have been so bad," she said, referring to the economic downturn that hit the island's economy a year after Chen swept to office in 2000.
