TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Typhoon Utor, which formed yesterday morning, continues to intensify and is expected to affect Taiwan by next Monday, according to the Central Weather Bureau (CWB) ...
State-owned oil supplier to rev up privatization efforts
TAIPEI--CPC Corp., Taiwan, the country's state-run oil supplier, said yesterday that it will speed up its pace in privatization in order to become privatized by the end of ...
Ministry stood ground in Manila row Lin
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Foreign Minister David Lin said yesterday that his ministry never, from beginning to end, gave up in its efforts or softened its stance in dealing with the Philippine authorities over the shooting death of a Taiwanese fisherman in May by Philippine ...
Homicide charges in national interest Philippine newspaper
MANILA--The recommended homicide charges against Philippine Coast Guard officers involved in the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman in May are consistent with the country's national interest, a Philippine newspaper argued in an editorial ...
Asustek to unveil new notebook models
TAIPEI--Asustek Computer Inc., one of the world's leading personal computer vendors, is planning to launch new notebook computer models in the United States in September in a bid to stir up buying in the current slow global PC ...
TSMC July sales down 3.6 UMCs up 7.4 m-o-m
TAIPEI--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip-maker, said Friday that its consolidated sales for July fell from June, with market analysts attributing the decline to inventory adjustments by one of its major clients -- U.S.-based Qualcomm ...
French kiss warning issued ahead of Chinese Valentines
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A French kiss may involve a swap of millions of bacteria that could harm one's oral hygiene, a dentist warned yesterday ahead of the upcoming Chinese Valentine's ...
Brokerages cut target prices on Acer Inc. to below NT$20
TAIPEI--Several foreign brokerages have cut their target prices on shares of Acer Inc. to below NT$20 (US$0.67) after the Taiwan-based personal computer vendor reported worse-than-expected results for the second ...
Presidential Office announces nations top innovation award
The Presidential Innovation Awards will be bestowed on individuals or teams that have contributed the most in the categories of science and technology, culture, service and talent-nurturing. Vice Economics Minister Woody Tyzz-jiun Duh said his ministry has been working on implementing the awards since it was instructed to do so by President Ma Ying-jeou last year. There will be five winners in ...
Number of rabies cases up to 76 since mid-July govt
TAIPEI--Tests have confirmed rabies in 13 more Formosan ferret-badgers, bringing the number of confirmed infections in wild animals to 76 since the deadly disease resurfaced in Taiwan mid-July, authorities said ...
Intl LED light bulb prices fall for 5th straight month
TAIPEI--The average global prices of LED light bulbs fell in June for the fifth straight month, a trend that should improve the energy-saving bulbs' market penetration, according to a market information advisory ...
Taiwan to fight for 3rd place in FIBA Asia after 79-60 loss to Iran
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan is scheduled to fight for third place in the FIBA Asia Championship against South Korea, today, in order to qualify for next year's FIBA World Cup, after losing to Iran 79-60, ...
Marketing experts to share insights at forum in Taipei
TAIPEI--Local and foreign marketing gurus will share their insights on creativity and marketing skills at the Asian MICE Forum slated for early September, the organizers said ...
Taiwan toasts its ?hero? cagers
CHINESE Taipei is toasting its national basketball players back home even if they still have two games left in the 27th Fiba Asia Championship. Taiwanese reporters covering the 15-nation event that will reward three Asian spots to next year's World Championship in Spain confirmed this after a 96-78 quarterfinal win over defending champion China made the front pages of their respective ...
Kaohsiung mayor dines with Chinas Taiwan Affairs Office chief
China 's Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) Director Zhang Zhijun agreed that the two sides of the Taiwan Strait should increase exchanges to forge mutual understanding. Chen, a heavyweight in Taiwan's main opposition Democratic Progressive Party who is currently on a six-day visit ...
New Chinese Navy vessels pack Zhoushan port on east coast
Taipei, Aug. 10 (CNA) A dozen Chinese navy warships, including the latest model destroyers and frigates, have docked in a naval port in Zhoushan, a coastal city in Zhejiang Province, according to pictures posted on the Chinese news website Huanqiu.com. According to a report on the website Friday, the pictures taken by netizens showed more than 10 naval vessels of various sizes, including ...
President vows to seek energy independence diversification
Ma Ying-jeou said Saturday that Taiwan must diversify its sources of energy and pursue energy independence as a matter of national security while again making a case for the continued use of nuclear power in the country. "Energy supply is a national security issue for us as we rely on imports for more than 98 percent of our energy needs and almost all of our energy import sources are ...
Japanese city councilors visit Changhua County
Japan ese city councilors friendly to Taiwan from Ginowan in Okinawa on July 30, a county government spokesman said. During the meeting, Cho treated his guests to locally grown fruit and special farm produce and expressing hopes for further exchanges between the two sides. A representative from the Ginowan City Council in Okinawa said his city hoped to forge an alliance with Yuanlin in Changhua ...
Talk of the Day -- Apple top foreign patent applicant in Taiwan
Apple Inc. outpaced other foreign companies in filing patent applications in Taiwan in the first half of this year, according to statistics released by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) on Friday. The Cupertino-based company filed 259 invention patent applications and 132 design patent applications in the January-June period, more than any other foreign enterprise, the IPO said. It was the ...
NIA rejects Taiwan-China service trade pact allegations
China could buy their way into Taiwan too easily because the government was not setting strict enough limits and conditions, opponents of the pact said. NIA Director-General Hsieh Li-kung denied that the service trade pact would result in drastic changes. At present, Chinese nationals traveling to Taiwan for business could not apply for residency or for citizenship, and that would not change, ...
China Times Change of ownership for the Washington Post
The Washington Post Company, which has been owned by the Meyer-Graham family since 1933, announced on Aug. 5 that it was selling its newspaper business to Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos ...
Taiwan scientist makesadvances in transgenic pigs
Tunghai University professor Cheng Teng-kuei, known as Taiwan?s cattle cloning pioneer, is working on splicing genes from cellulose-digesting microbes in termite guts into pigs to create wood-eating, environmentally friendly hogs, THU ...
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