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fiLi's world (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Through TaiwanTony, I found out about the English CNN interview with Ma Ying Jiu in “Talk Asia”. It’s the easiest most sympathetic interview Ma could have hoped for and although it was a bit shallow, if not naive, it was still very interesting to watch. At the beginning Ma seemed held-back and shy, which keeps surprising me. [...]
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Caribbean 360 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Taiwan will assist St Kitts in the development of an agriculture zone in that Caribbean country to help the country produce more and lighten the impact of rising food prices globally.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Taipei - The number of foreigners visiting Taiwan rose 5.6 per cent to 1.9 million from January to June, amid Taiwan's efforts to find ways to lure more foreign tourists, the government said Friday. The Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and S...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Taipei - Taiwan's new de facto ambassador to the US said on Friday there is no arms sale freeze from the US, despite recent acknowledgement of such a policy by a top US military commander. No one, particularly those in charge of the issue, told me t...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Taipei - Taiwanese officials expressed satisfaction Friday over China's latest decision to standardize the designation Chinese-Taipei for the Taiwan team participating in the Beijing Olympics, seeing it advantageous to further improvement of cross-st...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Taipei - A Taiwan computer engineer was swindled out of 13.86 million Taiwan dollars (440,000 US dollars) when he was looking for a date on the internet, Taiwan radio said Friday. The man, only identified by his family name, Huang, was looking for a ...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's top new diplomat to the United States said on Friday he is unaware of any U.S. freeze on arms sales to the island, despite conflicting media reports on the subject over the last two weeks.
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Taiwanese officials maintain the postponement is motivated by a US desire to secure China's cooperation in tackling North Korea and Iran.
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ChinaTechNews.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba.com says this week it opened an office in Taipei, its fourth office outside mainland China. "The launch of our Taipei office signifies our strong commitment to invest more resources to develop the Taiwan market and help local SMEs with global trade," said David Wei, CEO of Alibaba.com. "Alibaba.com can provide Taiwan's 220,000 [...]
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Wandalust (Free subscription) | yesterday
© Jim Epler The 19th Taipei Culinary Exhibition takes place in Taiwan between 15th-18th August 2008. Taiwan is reputed to be the home of the best Chinese cuisine to be found anywhere. The exhibition is a showcase for all types of Chinese cooking in addition to local specialities such as from the Alishan mountain region. There will be cooking demonstrations by top chefs as well as cooking classes....
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Nikkei (Free subscription) | yesterday
Taiwan To Remove Cap On Investment In China To Enliven EconomyTAIPEI (Nikkei)--Taiwan next month will abolish, in principle, its cap on direct investments in China, President Ma Ying-jeou's government announced July 17.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Two recent developments ably highlight this trend. In January 2008, local traditional snack food producer Want Want Holdings revealed that it was to pursue a US$700mn initial public offering in a bid to raise funds for expansion on the Chinese mainland. The company is confident that its combination of convenient and premium snack foods and traditional concepts and flavours will prove popular with aspirational...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A group of Saskatchewan First Nations has turned to Taiwan's Chinese Petroleum Corp. to help them get a foothold in the province's fledgling tarsands play.
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Panama Investor Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
In 2006 Taiwan wired $2.5 million to help Costa Rican poor with housing of which only $1.5 million can be accounted for by the brother and chief of staff of the President. In 2007 Costa Rica ended its long relationship...
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Dr Szu-Yao (Zoe) Wang, who recently completed her PhD with UQ's School of Nursing, found that in Taiwan, where the culture dictates that children should care for their parents, aged-care facilities are becoming more popular.
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qyresearch | 07/17/2008
China CSGholding Taiwan LEYBOLD OPTICS etc Clients Selected QYResearch Products Date: Jul 17 2008 Editor: QYResearch News Center Global oil price at 135USD/Barrel on Jul 16,2008,according some third part research agencies forecast,2009 oil price will reach 200USD/Barrel and oil price will continue increase as energy demand and decreasing supply. high oil price speed up global renewable energy development....
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toro.asia | 07/03/2008
So Gemalto just announced their “ payez mobile ” initiative with five major French banks . In other words, Gemalto is becoming the de facto single TSM (Trusted Service Manager) for financial institutions in France (these five banks probably represent 90% of the retail banking market in France). This is good news for Gemalto, but also for the whole NFC ecosystem . And this, for two reasons. The first...
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toro.asia | 06/27/2008
So the NFC & International Micropayment Forum met for the second time in Taipei on June 24th 2008. Toro went there because, as a Taiwan-based company , it was kind of our duty to attend the event. Moreover, Collis was sponsoring the event and since they are one of our shareholders, we wanted to support them. So we dropped by to say “hi!” to the people we actually meet once or twice a month already.