Focus Taiwan 2012/01/12 Taipei, Jan. 12 (CNA) The tariff concessions on imports from China, allowed under a trade agreement, have not adversely affected Taiwan’s domestic industries, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said Thursday.   
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The China Post January 13, 2012 The China Post news staff–Taiwanese net-surfers often rightly complain about the slow broadband service. According to a survey conducted by the Consumers’ Foundation (消費者文教基金會), Taiwan’s average download speed is 13 Mbps, and 2.7 Mbps for upload. This lags behind the world’s average of 37.5 Mbps download speed. The...
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Mercury News 01/11/2012 By John Boudreau Each political party accuses the other of embracing policies that threaten the country’s future. Political gridlock hampers governing. Leaders trade insults. Sound like U.S. politics? Actually, national politics on this side of the Pacific are tame compared with the fiery and complex democracy in Taiwan, where a contentious...
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Taiwan Today 01/08/2012 By  Rachel Chan After they become mothers, many women are faced with a difficult and painful choice: whether to continue working, or to quit their jobs and become full-time moms. A lucky few are able to have their cake and eat it too. They create, much to their surprise, entirely new...
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The Gazette January 9, 2012 By Katherine Monk, Postmedia News NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan — A sea of schoolchildren pours out of buses and spills into the main road of an occupied village. Wearing iPods and carrying digital cameras, some eddy around the home of the Japanese commander, while others form a standing wave...
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