China in 2008, the Taipei City Government announced Saturday. The zoo, located in the southern suburbs of the capital, announced that the panda named Yuan Yuan gave birth to a baby panda at around 8:05 p.m. Saturday. Television stations interrupted routine news programs and coverage of the Golden Melody Awards, also in Taipei, to report on the panda birth, the first ever in ...
Taiwan urged to settle disputes over trade pact with China
South Korea ink a bilateral free trade agreement, a local scholar warned Saturday. "Taiwan is now experiencing verbal intimidation and saber-rattling over the cross-Taiwan Strait trade pact," said Wu Fu-Cheng, an international affairs analyst at the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research. "If the situation continues, it is not hard to tell right away who is going to win the ...
Talk of the Day -- Chinese spouses form political party
The Chinese Production Party (CPP), a political organization formed by Chinese spouses of Taiwan nationals, is reportedly negotiating with a chapter of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang (KMT) with the aim of winning a seat in the Legislative Yuan. The party was founded by Lu Yuexiang three years ago as part of her efforts to seek better rights for the increasing number of Chinese people marrying ...
Economic Daily News What has Taiwan got three years after ECFA
China signed the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) June 29, 2010. Three years have passed since its signing, and it's time to review the pact's effect on Taiwan's economy, cross-Taiwan Strait trade relations, and whether it has achieved what it was designed to achieve. In the beginning, there were concerns that imported Chinese goods would squeeze the market space of ...
Taiwanese comfort woman in Japan to raise awareness of sex slavery
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) A "Taiwanese comfort women" exhibition organized by the Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation (TWRC) and the Tokyo-based Women's Active Museum on War and Peace opened Saturday in Tokyo, running through June 29, 2014. One 92-year-old former Taiwanese comfort woman -- a euphemism for a military sex slave for ...
TV panel prices fall on inventory adjustments
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) TV panel prices quoted for the first half of July fell from the second half of June in reflection of inventory adjustments among TV manufacturers, according to a research report released Saturday. In the report, market information advisory firm DisplaySearch said that to speed up the pace of cutting inventories, many TV suppliers have offered discounts to boost their sales, ...
Negotiations on Miaoli home demolition to continue
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) The Miaoli county government will continue to communicate with the owners of four homes which are to be demolished in the county to make way for a science park. "If a consensus is not worked out, the four homes will have to be demolished," Miaoli Magistrate Liu Cheng-hung said Saturday. The dispute over the local government plan to demolish the four houses in the ...
Local IC packaging testing sales expected to grow 10 in Q3
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) Sales of local integrated circuit packaging and testing service providers for the third quarter of this year are forecast to grow about 10 percent from the second quarter largely on the back of strong demand for mobile communications devices, market analysts said Saturday. In addition to higher smartphone and tablet computer sales, the rising popularity of 4K2K ultra high ...
GOLDEN MELODY Stars brave rain to walk down red carpet
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) Celebrities and music critics braved the rain to walk the red carpet Saturday to participate in the Golden Melody Awards, the biggest music event in the Chinese-speaking world. Sporting a diamond pattern dress, Taiwanese pop diva Jolin Tsai was among one of the first stars to hit the red carpet, to be greeted by screaming fans. The pop star said she "had a lot of ...
GOLDEN MELODY Jolin Tsai Jay Chou to present Best Mandarin Male award
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) Taiwanese pop stars Jolin Tsai and Jay Chou will jointly present the Best Mandarin Male Singer award at the 24th Golden Melody Awards ceremony on Saturday, organizers said. Taiwanese veteran rock band Mayday, which garnered six major awards, including Best Mandarin Album, to become last year's biggest winner, will hand out the Best Mandarin Album award, organizers ...
Tatung denies involvement in Taiwan insider trading scandal
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - Tatung Company Ltd., one of Taiwan's most prominent manufacturers of household appliances, on Saturday denied involvement in an alleged insider trading scandal at its affiliate Green Energy Technology Inc. Three members of the Lin family which runs the Tatung group were released on bail after interrogations, while Tatung President W.Y. Lin was also questioned but ...
Sunny Bank to set up financial leasing arm in Shanghai
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) The Taiwan-based Sunny Bank said Saturday it would open up a financial leasing arm in Shanghai on July 11, making it the fourth Taiwanese non-financial holding company to have branches in such service ...
Local textile maker plans expansion in Thailand
Thai land on expectations that demand for artificial fiber would increase from quarter to quarter this year. Shingkong Synthetic Fibers, one of Taiwan's leading textile suppliers, said it aimed to expand production capacity of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle grade resin at ...
Domestic air travel prices expected to rise up to 20
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) The price of domestic air tickets will increase by up to 20 percent amid rising fuel prices, industry insiders predicted Saturday. Taiwan's top aviation regulator, the Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA), however, declined to comment, saying only that fuel prices account for 20 percent to 30 percent of the travel cost. In April, a new pricing formula was proposed to ...
Thousands flock to Yilan for annual summer festival
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) Large crowds stormed into the venue of the 2013 Yilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Festival Saturday, the opening day of the largest summer activity in the northeastern Taiwan county, one of the island's most popular tourist destinations. Two families traveling from Tainan in southern Taiwan were the first visitors to the annual festival, held in ...
No secret areas filmed during Niu base visit Taiwan Navy
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - The Navy said Saturday that movie director Doze Niu and Chinese cinematographer Cao Yu had not taken footage of any secret areas or activities during their controversial June 1 visit to the Zuoying naval base. Earlier this week, reports revealed that Niu had allowed Cao to present himself as a Taiwanese citizen to enter the base near Kaohsiung illegally, despite repeated ...
Gambian graduates from Taiwan university to boost farming in home country
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) A group of 23 Gambian students returned home after graduating with an agriculture degree in Taiwan, marking the first class of Gambian graduates from Taiwan's National Pingtung University of Science and Technology. Chen Shih-liang, Taiwan's ambassador to Gambia, said at a welcoming party for the returning students Wednesday that he hoped the graduates would work ...
Kaohsiung kicks off first hot air balloon carnival
Kaohsiung, July 6 (CNA) Hundreds of people braved the heat in Kaohsiung on Saturday to line up for rides over the city during its first-ever hot air balloon carnival. "It is so much fun!" said a woman surnamed Sun after a five-minute ride. Having arrived hours ahead of the event with her family, Sun told CNA, "the waiting time and the cost are totally worth it." Each hot air ...
Ample liquidity drags down NCD rate to 3 year low analysts
Taipei, July 6 (CNA) A high liquidity level in the local market has further dragged down the interest rate on negotiable certificates of deposit (NCDs) auctioned by the central bank to an almost three year low, analysts said Saturday. They said a move by the central bank to leave its key interest rates unchanged after a quarterly policy-making meeting held on June 27 showed the bank's ...
Taiwans finance minister praises Kinmen county
Kinmen, July 6 (CNA) Minister of Finance Chang Sheng-ford on Thursday praised Taiwan's outlying island county of Kinmen for its good environment and financial health during a meeting with local Magistrate Lee Wo-shi. Chang said Kinmen is the only county in the nation with a financial surplus. He said Kinmen has well-established infrastructure facilities and many banks desipite its small ...
GOLDEN MELODY Singer adds Latin touch to spice up Hakka music
By Christie Chen, CNA Staff Writer "Why not? Let's do some Latin," retorted 47-year-old Tito Tang, who was nominated for Best Hakka Singer at this year's Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan, as he talked to reporters on a sunny morning in Taipei. "Let's not just think about the Hakka 'eight notes' or traditional instruments. No. We can be a little traditional, ...
Miaoli chief vows to go ahead with Dapu demolition
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - Miaoli County Magistrate Liu Cheng-hung on Saturday vowed to go ahead with the demolition of four homes in Dapu Village to make way for a science park if necessary despite attempts by Vice President Wu Den-yih to mediate. Protests by the four households and their supporters escalated over the past few days as a deadline approached. The protesters at one point tried to ...
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