Focus Taiwan 2012/05/17 Taipei, May 17 (CNA) Health Minister Chiu Wen-ta said Thursday he welcomes the United States’ call for “normalization” of Taiwan’s participation in World Health Organization (WHO) activities. In a report delivered to Congress late last month on its assistance to Taiwan’s bid to participate in WHO programs and technical activities, the...
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Grand plans for a jointly run island The Economist May 19th 2012 IT BELONGS to China, but Chinese officials want to spend billions of dollars transforming an island in the Taiwan Strait the size of Malta into a money-spinning model of cross-strait co-operation with a jointly run government. China and Taiwan have not co-operated...
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NASDAQ May 17, 2012 In the 60 years since Chinese Nationalists retreated to Taiwan, the tiny island country has transformed itself quite differently from the mainland China.  Thanks to a series of financial and economic reform by the Nationalist Party (KMT), Taiwan got a head start on economic and democratic development, while Mao’s Cultural...
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Focus Taiwan 2012/05/15 Taipei, May 15 (CNA) All 153 people aboard a Taiwan-registered passenger boat that issued a distress signal Tuesday morning have been rescued, according to China’s Xinhua News Agency later in the day.   
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Focus Taiwan 2012/05/15 Taipei, May 15 (CNA) Governor of Kentucky Steven Beshear showcased the state’s thriving bourbon industry Tuesday at a Taipei event celebrating the long-standing partnership between the two sides. Although Taiwan is more familiar with scotch whisky, Kentucky bourbon has a distinct taste worth savoring, Beshear said as he urged guests to...
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