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- China Airlines cancels flights due to Typhoon Jangmi
- AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Taiwanese airline China Airlines reported yesterday (28 September) that two flights from Taipei were cancelled as a result of Typhoon Jangmi. Flight CI 619 from Taipei to Hong Kong and flight CI 065 from Taipei to Bangkok were cancelled. All connecting...
- Research articles 2008-09-29
- Taiwan zoo hopes to welcome China pandas in November
- TAIPEI AFP — Officials at Taiwan's biggest zoo said Wednesday they hoped to welcome a pair of giant pandas from rival China as early as November, a move expected to draw millions of tourists to the capital. Taipei's Mucha Zoo, which was chosen last month to house the endangered...
- Research articles 2008-09-03
- Taiwanese join Nike's global charity run
- TAIPEI AFP — Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou led more than 20,000 people Sunday in a charity race billed by sponsor Nike as the world's biggest one-day running event, with races taking place in 25 cities worldwide. The Nike+ 10K Human Race was launched to raise money for the Lance...
- Research articles 2008-08-31
- Taiwan acquires Harpoon anti-ship missiles
- TAIPEI AFP — Taiwan has acquired 60 Harpoon anti-ship missiles from the United States in a boost of its defence against rival China, the defence ministry here said Thursday. The missiles will be used by the air force's F-16 fighter jets, the ministry said, in a 90-million-dollar deal. ...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- Ex-president barred from leaving Taiwan
- TAIPEI AFP — Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian has been barred from leaving the island and his office raided on money-laundering allegations implicating him and his family, officials said Sunday. The coast guard confirmed that Chen on Saturday had been barred by prosecutors from leaving the territory which he...
- Research articles 2008-08-16
- Taiwan battens down against oncoming typhoon
- TAIPEI AFP — Workers mounted sandbag barriers and fishing boats returned to port as Taiwan braced for a pounding from Typhoon Fung-wong, which forecasters said was picking up momentum. Taiwan is still reeling from storms earlier this month which left 20 people dead and six missing, and the Central...
- Research articles 2008-07-26
- Protests as Jackie Chan arrives in Taiwan
- TAIPEI AFP — Kung fu hero Jackie Chan arrived in Taipei Wednesday amid a protest over controversial remarks he made four years ago on the island's presidential elections. Scores of protesters shouted "Jackie Chan, get out" as the Hong Kong actor, having arrived aboard a private jet, was escorted...
- Research articles 2008-06-18
- Taiwan combats virus as death toll hits seven
- TAIPEI AFP — Taiwan has barred children aged under five from going to public play areas in a bid to contain the spread of a highly contagious virus that has killed seven so far this year, officials said Sunday. Playgrounds at fast food outlets and hospitals in northern Taipei...
- Research articles 2008-06-15
- Taiwan's Asustek, Acer launch low-priced mini laptops
- TAIPEI AFP — Two major Taiwan computer sellers launched low-priced mini laptops at Asia's biggest computer show on Tuesday, both forecasting the shipment of millions of units this year. Asustek Computer Inc announced improvements to its successful "Eee PC" family at the opening of the five-day exhibition better known...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- Low-priced laptops a theme at Asia's biggest computer fair
- TAIPEI AFP — Computer makers are expected to showcase the latest of their lines of low-cost PCs in the Taipei computer trade fair -- the biggest computer show in Asia -- when it opens this week. Most of those on display at the five-day trade fair, also known as...
- Research articles 2008-06-01
- Dutch Sinologist works to keep Taiwan puppetry alive
- TAIPEI AFP — Taipei-based Dutch puppet master Robin Ruizendaal draws his inspiration from Taiwanese folklore and Western fairy tales in his bid to promote the island's traditional are of glove puppetry. In so doing, Ruizendaal, director of a leading Taiwanese puppet museum and its troupe of theatrical puppeteers, has...
- Research articles 2008-05-14
- Taiwan's incoming Interior minister Liao dies
- TAIPEI AFP — Taiwan's incoming interior minister Liao Fung-te has died of heart failure 10 days before he was due to take office, his doctors and party officials said on Sunday. He was 57. "The president-elect Ma Ying-jeou and Kuomintang party chairman Wu Poh-hsiung were shocked upon learning it...
- Research articles 2008-05-10
- Taiwan's next leader urges truce in cash diplomacy battle
- TAIPEI AFP — Taiwan's president-elect Ma Ying-jeou called Tuesday for a "ceasefire" in its money-guzzling diplomatic battle with China amid a scandal over the alleged embezzlement of 30 million US dollars. In his first public comments on a furore that has rocked the island in the last weeks of...
- Research articles 2008-05-05
- HK star Andy Lau ordered to pay 170,000 dlrs for damaged Taiwan chopper
- TAIPEI AFP — Hong Kong movie star Andy Lau has been ordered to pay 5.1 million Taiwan dollars (170,000 US) to a Taiwanese airline for damaging its helicopter during filming, a court official said Wednesday. Lau accidentally brushed against the pitch stick of the chopper, loaned by Daily Air,...
- Research articles 2008-04-16
- Taiwan's next first lady to mark shift in style
- TAIPEI AFP — With an "aunt next door" image and habit of catching the bus to work, Taiwan's incoming First Lady will bring a shift in style from the wife of outgoing President Chen Shui-bian. Chow Mei-ching, 56, who heads the legal division of a major Taipei banking group,...
- Research articles 2008-03-23
- Opposition's Ma wins Taiwan presidential vote: TV
- TAIPEI AFP — Opposition candidate Ma Ying-jeo stormed to victory in Taiwan's presidential election Saturday with an unassailable lead in the vote count, TV stations reported. With more than 90 percent of votes counted, Ma had a massive 17-point lead over Frank Hsieh of the pro-independence ruling Democratic Progressive...
- Research articles 2008-03-21
- Tibetan activists stage symbolic torch relay in Taiwan
- TAIPEI AFP — Tibetan activists on Sunday staged a symbolic torch relay in Taipei ahead of their "Olympics", a move sure to irk China after Taiwan refused to allow the torch for the Beijing Games on its soil. Former Miss Tibet Tsering Chungtak, clad in a traditional robe, held...
- Research articles 2008-02-24
- Bett, Tsatsa capture titles in Taipei ING marathon
- TAIPEI AFP — Kenya's Hillary Bett won the men's contest in the ING Taipei International Marathon on Sunday, upsetting his fellow countrymen, while Zimbabwe's Tabitha Tsatsa captured the women's title. Bett completed the course in two hours, 17 minutes and 0.9 seconds, beating Disdery Hombo and Elijah Chemwolo, who...
- Research articles 2007-12-15
- Taiwan plans to close Chiang mausoleums: report
- TAIPEI AFP — Taiwan is planning to close the mausoleums of presidents Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo to visitors early next year citing budgetary and manpower shortages, a report said Friday. The defence ministry was also expected to withdraw all of the 115 guards at the mausoleums...
- Research articles 2007-12-14
- Italian wins Taiwan race up world's tallest skyscraper
- TAIPEI AFP — A 30-year-old Italian man climbed 91 floors in just over 11 and a half minutes on Sunday to win the race up the world's tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, organisers said. Marco De Gasperi beat 80 competitors to the top of the enormous building in downtown Taipei...
- Research articles 2007-11-25
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