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Do-or-die for India women against Chinese Taipei
It will be a do-or-die match for Indian women's football team when they face Chinese Taipei in their next group D match of the AFC Women's Asian Cup (qualifiers) here Wednesday. The Indian team despite giving a good account of themselves against Myanmar in their opening game of the have their backs to wall after a 0-2 reversal. Against Chinese Taipei, who pumped in six goals against hosts ...
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Talk of the Day -- Real salary slumps to new low
Real salary fell to a three-year low in Taiwan in the first quarter of this year because of a combination of factors, including decreased Lunar New Year bonus, smaller salary increases and higher rate of inflation, according to local media reports. Data released by the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) show that the average regular salary amounted to NT$37,508 ...
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Philippines one-China policy no excuse for lack of apology president
Ma Ying-jeou said Wednesday. Taiwan has never specified which official should offer the apology but it insists on a public apology from the Philippine government, Ma said in an interview on the local channel CTV. Ma said ...
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Taiwan Philippines Pursue Joint Shooting Probe to Mend Ties
Family members cry around the body of Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng after his boat, the Kuang Ta Hsing No. 28, arrived at Liuqiu port in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan, May 11, ...
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Taiwans protection efforts help increase tuna catch fishermen
Taipei, May 22 (CNA) The number of bluefin tuna caught off Pingtung County has increased significantly as a result of the government's intensified efforts to protect Taiwanese fishermen following the fatal shooting of a local fisherman by Philippine marine patrol personnel May 9, a fishermen's association said Wednesday. Since the incident occurred, 102 bluefin tuna worth about NT$50 ...
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Taiwans health minister speaks at WHA
Geneva, May 22 (CNA) Taiwan's Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta expounded on his country's achievements in the field of medicine and health, at the World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday. Chiu said that over the past 50 years, Taiwan has eradicated or brought under control more than 10 infectious diseases. Notably, Taiwan launched the world's first universal ...
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Taiwan not yet ready to receive Philippine investigators
Philippines as both sides have not ironed out some differences over probing the May 9 shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine maritime patrol personnel, a senior official said Wednesday. Vice Justice Minister Chen Ming-tang confirmed that the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) had received a letter of request from ...
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Taiwanese friendly toward Filipinos foreign minister
Taipei, May 22 (CNA) Taiwanese people are generally friendly toward Philippine nationals in Taiwan, Foreign Minister David Lin said Wednesday after a rumor of Filipino worker being mistreated as was determined to be untrue. Lin said he hopes all Filipinos living in Taiwan can experience the friendliness of the Taiwanese people, but he also urged the Council of Labor Affairs and the Ministry of ...
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70 of young people obsessed with mobile phones survey
Taipei, May 22 (CNA) More than 70 percent of young people in Taiwan check their phones every night before going to bed, while around 65 percent of parents said they feel uneasy if their children do not answer their calls, according to the results of a survey published Wednesday. The survey by the King Car Education Foundation on the role of the mobile phone in family relations collected 1,668 ...
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International film touring program comes to Taiwan
Taipei, May 22 (CNA) An international film touring program kicked off Wednesday in Taiwan with the aim of fostering dialogue and promoting cross-cultural understanding, according to the organizers. The "Film Forward" program, initiated by the Sundance Institute and United States federal cultural agencies, features seven international films on topics covering climate change, interracial ...
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Taiwan Said to Curb Bullish Currency Bets as Yen Hits 2008 Low
Taiwan tightened limits on local banks' bullish bets on the local dollar, boosting efforts to rein in the exchange rate and defend export competitiveness after the yen tumbled to the lowest since 2008. The Central Bank of the Republic ...
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Fitch Affirms Taiwans Hua Nan Commercial Bank at BBB+Stable
Fitch: Recession Concern Dampens European Investor Sentiment An increasing number of investors expect fundamental credit conditions will deteriorate across sectors, according to a Fitch Ratings investor survey. The more circumspect sentiment was most notable for the sovereign segment, where the proportion of survey respondents anticipating worsening conditions more than doubled to 55%, from 24% ...
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President promises regular coastguard patrols to protect fishermen
Philippines maritime patrol personnel. Ma said, however, that Taiwan's Coast Guard operations will not involve any military drills. The government will make every effort to protect its fishermen, "anytime, anywhere," as long as they are operating in the country's exclusive economic zone, Ma said at a Kuomintang (KMT) meeting in Taipei where he was briefed by Foreign Minister ...
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Data center sector to post strong growth in 2013 supplier
Taipei, May 22 (CNA) French engineering company Schneider Electronic SA expressed optimism Wednesday about the outlook for Taiwan's data center sector thanks to rising demand for cloud computing-based applications. Yicai Qiao, country president of Schneider Electronic Taiwan Co., forecast that the output of local data centers will grow 7 percent in 2013 from a year earlier, despite a weak ...
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FOCUS | China may be fanning flames of Taiwanese anger with PH - expert
InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 MANILA, Philippines - Since the shooting of a Taiwanese boat that killed a 65-year-old fisherman off Batanes on May 9, there has been no confirmed incident of violence against Filipinos in Taiwan that is clearly linked to it, boosting the possibility-as raised by an expert-- that Beijing may be fanning the heat as a test case while it continues its ...
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Taiwanese official demands Manila apology for fishermans death
Philippines should officially apologize for the May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by one of its government vessels, a Taiwanese official said in an article contributed to the Wall Street Journal Tuesday. Recent Taiwanese naval and coast guard drills in the ...
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Output of Taiwans petrochemical sector down 8 in Q1
Taipei, May 22 (CNA) The production value of Taiwan's petrochemical sector for the first quarter of this year fell about 8 percent from a year earlier as a result of falling product prices on weaker global demand, according to a government report released Wednesday. The Industry and Technology Intelligence Services (ITIS), a research institute under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, said ...
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Donations reach families of fishermen killed in Philippine patrols
Philippines on Wednesday offered a total of NT$5 million in donations to the families of two Taiwanese fishermen who were shot dead by Philippine marine patrol personnel over the past seven years. The donations, split evenly, were delivered by Jose Kho, chairman of ...
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Man confesses to fabricating rumor on Filipino mistreatment
Taipei, May 22 (CNA) A Lihpao Daily reporter confessed to police Wednesday that he never personally saw a Filipino denied service at a cafeteria in Taipei amid an onging diplomatic standoff between the two countries. The reporter, identified only by his surname Cheng, wrote in a May 14 Facebook post that a Filipino worker was refused service by a cafeteria owner who was angered by the May 9 ...
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Philippines makes mutual legal assistance request to Taiwan
Philippines has filed a letter of request for mutual legal assistance to Taiwan for a joint probe into the May 9 shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman by a Philippine government vessel in overlapping waters of the two countries' exclusive economic zones. The Ministry of Justice was expected to receive the letter Wednesday through the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO), ...
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MECO chairman says he never linked shooting one China policy
Taipei, May 22 (CNA) The chairman of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (MECO) said Tuesday in a letter to Taiwan's Foreign Ministry that he never mentioned Manila's ...
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PH thanks Taiwan for call to citizens not to harm Filipino workers
MANILA, Philippines — In a sign of easing tensions, President Benigno Aquino III's expression of gratitude to Taiwan when it urged its citizens not to harm Filipinos was received well by the Taiwanese leaders, Malacaang said on Wednesday. After talking with his counterparts in Taiwan, Amadeo Perez, chair of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco), on Wednesday relayed the ...
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Mainland to ensure continuity of Taiwan policy
The Chinese mainland will ensure the continuity of its policies towards Taiwan and work to make new achievements in the development of cross-strait relations, top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng said on Wednesday.While meeting a visiting delegation of Taiwan's United Daily News Group(UDN), Yu, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, ...
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Philippines investigation team on shooting incident to leave for Taiwan
The Philippines will soon send an investigation team to Taiwan to gather evidence on the death of a Taiwanese fisherman killed by the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said Wednesday."The team will be leaving very soon," de Lima told reporters Wednesday, but she would not confirm when the team would exactly leave for Taipei, explaining that is because the ...
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Taiwan OKs visit by NBI team
Justice Secretary Leila De Lima. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO MANILA--The Philippine government finally got Taipei’s nod for it to send investigators to Taiwan to complete its investigation into the fatal May 9 shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman in Batanes waters by the Philippine Coast Guard. But Justice Secretary Leila De Lima declined to tell reporters Wednesday when the National Bureau of ...
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Port of Taipei will greatly benefit the city
With the economic growth and development of Taiwan and its capital Taipei have come vast infrastructure challenges, not least of which is the ever-increasing demand for goods and services, which must be imported, requiring larger ports and in greater numbers.
Taiwan is a country that has experienced remarkable growth over the last several centuries since it broke away from the mainland politically and began operating as an independent country. The national capital, Taipei, has been at the centre of this growth, developing the country’s first mass transit system and spearheading economic development throughout the country. Read more
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