Taiwan News

The Taiwan Air Force has shelved nine Mirage 2000-5 jets due to a lack of spare parts supplied by France, a newspaper report said Sunday.

The Kuomintang honorary chairman Wu Poh-hsiung Monday said the peaceful cross-Straits development was the "right path", while meeting here with Liang Baohua, secretary of Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China .

Taipei, Nov. 10 The Taiwan Stock Exchange's main index opened higher Tuesday, moving up 76.64 points at 7,613.34 on a turnover of NT$3.84 billion .

The nation's representative to an Asia-Pacific informal leadership meeting said yesterday he will help push for the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to sign a bilateral partial free trade agreement as early as possible.

At least $121 million in fresh Taiwanese investments in various fields are expected to be poured into the country particularly in Clark, Subic and Mindanao areas.

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Director Wang Yi of China's Taiwan Affairs Council said yesterday that a oemainland China is ready to sign the memorandum on cross-strait financial supervision cooperation, and therefore it's would be great if the memorandum on cross-strait financial supervision cooperation these two days.a Wang made the remarks after speaking at ...

For 400 years, Taiwanese have been subject to foreign colonizers -- first the Dutch and Spanish, then the Manchu Empire, then the Japanese empire and finally the "Republic of China" KMT Chinese Nationalist Regime of Chiang Kai-shek and his son.

Ma was referring to the artillery shelling flying across the Taiwan Strait as well as air and ship battles between the island and the mainland in the 1960s.

The decision to link the belated reopening of a national museum on the February 28th Incident of 1947 with the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of China is likely to become a pretext for the sanitation of the role of the ruling Chinese Nationalist Party in the most traumatic event in Taiwan's modern history.

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STRAIT: A senior official said an agreement on financial supervision would have to be inked before both sides could approve operations by financial institutions STAFF WRITER, WITH CNA Saturday, Nov 07, 2009, Page 12 Taipei and Beijing should sign a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in financial supervision as soon as possible for mutual ...

The average Asian beer is feather-light and forgettable, but every blue moon, a cookie-cutter lager can shake our belief in mass-produced suds.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama, set for a mission to China this month to boost warming ties, will stay firm on the US policy of supporting but not recognising rival Taiwan, an aide said on Friday.

Taipei, Nov. 6 More than 190 aftershocks had been recorded as of early Friday since an earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale hit central Taiwan a day earlier, seismologists said that day.

Two Barbour's Seahorses and black King Kong shrimps are seen at the Taiwan International Aquarium Expo in Taipei, Taiwan, yesterday.

Taiwan Peking opera "A Tale of Golden Locks," based on a novel of renowned writer Eileen Chang, will be staged at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Nov.

Taipei, Nov. 6 The two sides of the Taiwan Strait should sign a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in financial supervision as early as possible for mutual benefit, a senior Taiwanese official said Friday.

Press release; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES [Friday 6 November 2009] Elpida Memory and ProMOS Technologies announced on November 6 the signing of a DRAM foundry agreement.

Taiwan government announced October 23 that it would open an office of the Taiwan Strait Tourism and Travel Association in Beijing early next year with a mandate to promote tourism to Taiwan, increase the number of mainland Chinese visiting Taiwan, and set up mechanisms for facilitating communication for tourists and responding to emergencies.

Taiwanese Premier Wu Den-yih is attempting to play down his ties with a convicted gang boss as a scandal threatens to undermine the government and the chances of the ruling party in next month's local elections.