Business Week Bloomberg April 30, 2010 By Tim Culpan April 30 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. should keep selling weapons to Taiwan to maintain confidence within Asia, Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said in an interview with CNN. “We will purchase arms from the United States, but we’ll never ask America to fight for Taiwan,” Ma,...
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Focus Taiwan 2010/04/30 Taipei, April 30 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou said the triangular relations among Taiwan, the United States and China are the best they have been in 60 years in an interview broadcast on CNN Friday night Taipei time. In an interview with Christiane Amanpour that was recorded on Wednesday, Ma said that...
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The Washington Post Reuters April 30, 2010 TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan executed four people on Friday, the justice ministry said, in the island’s first cases of capital punishment since 2005 when the sentence became a sensitive political issue. Four inmates convicted of crimes connected to a murder case were executed late on Friday, the...
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Illegal medicine pretext for political crackdown: Critics Taiwan News 2010-04-29 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Only eight underground radio stations are still left after a government crackdown on the sale of illegal medicine, Premier Wu Den-yih said Thursday. The crackdown provoked accusations that the government was looking for a pretext to remove critical voices from...
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Taiwan News 2010-04-29 TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The new national health insurance system will see premiums fall for 60 percent of the public and stay in place for 15 to 20 years, Department of Health Minister Yaung Chih-liang said Thursday. The minister presented plans for the second-generation health insurance system, in which premiums will...
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