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Sales of listed companies in Q1 down 3.4 percent
Taipei, May 25 (CNA) Sales generated by companies listed on Taiwan's main board and the over-the-counter (OTC) market for the first quarter of this year fell 3.4 percent from a year earlier to NT$6.07 trillion ...
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Chiayi-Shizuoko charter flights launched
China Airlines (CAL) Saturday with 158 passengers aboard. CAL Chairman Sun Huang-hsiang noted that Chiayi Airport became an international airport last December and said that his company is proud to provide the maiden charter flight. He added that a charter flight would take off from Shizuoka to Chiayi later in the day, with another two-way charter flight scheduled for May 29. CAL and the Chiayi ...
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Source of banned industrial starch in food found
Taipei, May 25 (CNA) A Taipei-headquartered chemical manufacturer and supplier, UPC Technology Corp., has been tracked down as a source of an industrial starch banned from use in food but recently found in tapioca balls that are used in bubble tea drinks. So far, all the evidence indicates UPC Tech to be the main source, Kang Jaw-jou, director-general of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
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Taiwan sets new condition for NBI team’s visit
Philippine special envoy Amadeo Perez (Center) AFP FILE PHOTO TAIPEI, Taiwan--Taiwanese authorities issued additional conditions on Saturday that could possibly delay further a trip here by a team from the National Bureau of Investigation to complete its investigation into the circumstances around the killing by the Philippine Coast Guard of a Taiwanese fisherman in disputed waters off Batanes, ...
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Taiwan eyes closer business ties with France
Paris, May 24 (CNA) Taiwan's representative to France, Michel Lu, visited the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIP) Friday to promote economic exchanges, eyeing closer business ties between the two countries.Lu, along with the secretary of the Taipei representative office's economics division, Liang Chia-chen, met with Pierre-Antoine Gailly, president of the CCIP, and Gilles ...
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Taiwan DPP congress sticks with candidate selection method
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - At a congress Saturday, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party rejected the reintroduction of voting by party members to select election candidates while also ...
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Taiwan teachers protest against pension reform
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - Tens of thousands of teachers protested outside the Presidential Office Building in Taipei Saturday against the government's pension reform plans. The teachers union organizing the event said the administration of ...
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Taipei Twin Towers officials detained
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - The Taipei District Court ordered the detention Saturday of the main developer and the spokesman for the contested bidder for Taipei's Twin Towers project. Allegations of bribes paid by Taipei Gateway International Development to officials and politicians sank the prestigious NT$70 billion ...
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Economic Daily News Clear up facts about Taiwans economy
The Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics on Friday lowered its 2013 economic growth forecast for Taiwan to 2.4 percent. We assume that starting next week, the government will again be desperate to introduce various stimulus programs and we urge the government to clear up the current economic situation first before making another move. Some people have said that the ...
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Trend for late marriages on rise
Taipei, May 25 (CNA) The average age in Taiwan for people getting married for the first time in 2012 was 31.9 for men and 29.5 for women, up 0.9 years for men and 2.7 years for women from 10 years ago, according to statistics published by the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) Saturday. In terms of nationality, the average age of first marriages for foreign men was the highest at 37.1, followed by ...
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Home sellers in Taiwan turn active in search of buyers realtor
Taipei, May 25 (CNA) Home sellers in major cities in Taiwan have become active in seeking buyers after a luxury tax on property has been in place for almost two years, which means that the impact of the speculation-curbing measures is fading, a real estate agent said Saturday. Yung Ching Realty Group, one of Taiwan's leading property agencies, said the number of visitors from seven major ...
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Language abilities urged for local tourism sector
Taipei, May 25 (CNA) Taiwan's travel industry needs to recruit staff who can speak less popular foreign languages in the wake of growing numbers of inbound tourists from those countries, tourism insiders said Saturday during national exams for tour guides. About 30,000 people in Taiwan hold a tour guide license, but fewer than 100 can speak the languages of tourists from countries that are ...
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Taiwanese investigators ready to depart for Manila
Philippines for judicial assistance in the probe of a Philippine government vessel that shot dead a Taiwanese fisherman earlier this month, an official said Saturday. Deputy Minister of Justice Chen Ming-tang said that the ministry expects to receive formal consent in written form May 27 and that the Taiwanese delegation, comprised mainly of prosecutors from the Pingtung District Prosecutors ...
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New promoter of exchanges with Japan vows to improve ties
Taipei, May 25 (CNA) The new chairman of the Association of East Asian Relations (AEAR), a semi-official body responsible for bilateral exchanges ...
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Taiwan celebrates Africa Day
Taipei, May 25 (CNA) About 100 people attended a festival Saturday to observe Africa Day, which is celebrated annually May 25 to mark the independence of various African countries since 1963. They were offered a wide range of activities, including African braiding, body painting and drumming to get a taste of African culture. "This is fun," said Tsai Chia-lin, a 33-year-old mother who ...
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German scholar fishery dispute should be resolved soon
Philippines and the shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine Coast Guard is part of a bigger problem that will probably be resolved soon. Gunter Schubert, founder and director of the European Research Center on contemporary Taiwan at Tuebingen University, said the confrontation between Taiwan and ...
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Officials reassure Philippine workers in Taiwan
Taipei, May 25 (CNA) Government officials have reassured Filipino workers in Taiwan Friday that their rights and interests will be protected, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Officials of the ministry and the Council of Labor Affairs went to ChipMOS Technologies Ltd. in the northern county of Hsinchu -- which employs Filipino workers -- to assure them of a friendly working ...
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Further U.S. congressional statements on Taiwan-Philippines row
Washington, May 24 (CNA) Echoing several of his colleagues, U.S. House Representative Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) has issued a formal statement urging ...
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Delegation to visit Taiwanese investors in China
Taipei, May 25 (CNA) The Department of Investment Services (DIS) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs said Saturday that it will send an investor service delegation ...
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US dollar rises on Taipei forex ends a days high of NT$30.030
TAIPEI -- The U.S. dollar rose against the New Taiwan dollar Friday, gaining NT$0.005 to close at the day's high of NT$30.030 behind central bank intervention, dealers ...
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Slain Taiwanese was good to Filipino fishermen
Reuters/REUTERS - Family members of Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng mourn next to his body when the Guang Ta Hsin 28 fishing vessel arrives at Liuqiu in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan May 11, 2013. ...
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Taiwans space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid relief
Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged Asia at the weekend to affected countries and aid groups for free.The National Space Programme Office (NSPO) normally charges 3,000 euros (4,080 dollars) for each photograph covering an area of 600 square kilometres (240 square miles), the office said.The images ...
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Taiwan slashes 2013 GDP growth forecast
Taiwan on Friday slashed its 2013 GDP growth forecast to 2.4 percent from 3.59 percent as the faltering global economic recovery weighs on the island's ...
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Kin of Taiwanese fisherman unaware of Philippines apology
The captain of a Taiwanese fishing boat whose father was shot and killed by the Philippine Coast Guard in disputed waters claimed on Friday he and his men were fired upon without provocation, and his family accused the Filipinos of murder. Denying that his boat had encroached on Philippine waters, Hung Yue-chien, 39, insisted at a press conference here that the May 9 incident occurred in a ...
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Taiwanese trade mission to explore business opportunities
(Arab News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) will lead a 29-member trade delegation to Saudi Arabia in early June. They will tour Riyadh from June 4-7 and Jeddah from June 7-10. They will be earlier visiting Almaty, Kazakhstan ...
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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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