Taiwan

Short Sport, March 3, 2013

3 Mar 2013

Golf officials denied rumours of a malaria outbreak on the LPGA Tour yesterday after Natalie Gulbis and Pak Se-ri pulled out of the HSBC Women's Champions in Singapore due to illness and staff...

Taiwan to stage live-fire exercise at Spratlys

2 Mar 2013

Taiwan's coastguard will stage a live-fire exercise next month in disputed South China Sea islands, a move that could raise regional tensions. The drill will take place on Taiping Island between...

Xi's talk of cross-strait dream 'aimed at political talks'

2 Mar 2013

Communist Party leader Xi Jinping's appeal for people across the Taiwan Strait to forge dreams together is being seen as a new approach by the party's new leadership to make the prospect of cross-...

'Major progress' in cross-strait ties accords with wishes of both sides: Hu Jintao

27 Feb 2013

President Hu Jintao yesterday told the visiting honorary chairman of Taiwan's Kuomintang, Lien Chan, that cross-strait ties had made "major progress" since 2005. Analysts saw Hu's comment as an...

'Hsieh's Sina case shows lip service'

27 Feb 2013

People have been unable to access former Taiwanese premier Frank Hsieh Chang-ting's newly opened account on the mainland's popular Sina Weibo microblogging site since last Wednesday due to an "...

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Xi vows to push for 'peaceful reunification' with Taiwan

Communist Party leader Xi Jinping told the visiting honorary chairman of Taiwan's Kuomintang, Lien Chan, on Monday that his team would continue to build cross-strait ties and strive for "peaceful...

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Top Taiwan official Lien Chan to meet Xi Jinping in Beijing

Speculation is rife in Taiwan media that Xi, who is poised to become president in March, might propose strengthening co-operation between Taipei and Beijing in exploiting maritime resources in the...

Taiwanese police arrest tomb raider

Police in Taiwan have arrested a suspected grave robber thought to have stolen gold jewellery worth more than half a million dollars from hundreds of tombs across the island, a report said on...

Taiwan's ex-president’s prison term extended

Taiwan’s former president Chen Shui-bian, jailed for corruption in 2009, has had his prison term extended by 18 months to 20 years due to a further bribery conviction.

CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS

Taiwan media speculate on Beijing's picks for cross-strait relations

With the mainland's cabinet reshuffle taking place next month, Taiwanese media have begun speculating on who Beijing will appoint as its top officials responsible for cross-strait affairs. ...

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Taiwan ex-premier Frank Hsieh's microblog blocked after comment

Less than a day after former Taiwanese premier Frank Hsieh Chang-ting verified his account on Sina Weibo, access to it was inexplicably blocked. Hsieh started his microblog on February 9 and...