Taipei - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday that the up-coming Taipei-Beijing dialogue is intended to build mutual trust and is vital for Taiwan's survival.
Ma made the remark while receiving the Taiwan delegation ahead of the talks to be held in Nanjing, China, Friday through Saturday.
Ma said that in the past 11 months since he took office, Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Straits
(ARATS) have been building mutual trust.
Taipei - Taiwan's export orders contracted for the sixth-straight month in March, falling 24.29 per cent from the same month a year earlier, but the decrease eased somewhat because of a slight recovery in global demand, the Economics Ministry said Thursday. The island received orders worth 23.94 billion US dollars in March, a fall of 18.99 per cent from February and an improved figure from the record contraction of 41.67 per cent registered in January, the ministry said in a statement.
Taipei - Dutch insurer Aegon NV is to sell its Taiwanese life insurance unit to local investors to boost its cash flow, local media reported Thursday.
Aegon said in a statement that it had agreed to transfer its local business to Taipei-based consortium Zhongwei Co for 84.5 million dollars, the Taipei Times reported.
The deal is expected to be completed by the end of third quarter, pending regulatory approval, the company said.
Taipei - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday urged the United States to sell more modern weapons systems to Taiwan to maintain the military balance across the Taiwan Strait.
Ma made the call during a video conference with US academics to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Washington's signing the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA).
Taipei - Taiwan's jobless rate rose to a record high of 5.81 per cent in March as it increased for the 15th-consecutive month while sharply reduced global demand battered the local manufacturing industry, a government agency said Wednesday.
About 630,000 people were classified as out of work, 6,000 more than in February, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said in a statement.
Taipei - A Taiwan man was charged with murder Tuesday for throwing his 10-month-old daughter into a pot of boiling water.
Prosecutor Chang Hui-chiung filed the charges against Huang Ling-chi, 48, from Changhwa County, western Taiwan, after Huang's daughter died Tuesday following three days' treatment. If convicted, Huang could face a ten-year sentence to the death penalty.
Taipei - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday that the up-coming Taipei-Beijing dialogue is intended to build mutual trust and is vital for Taiwan's survival.
Taipei - Taiwan's export orders contracted for the sixth-straight month in March, falling 24.29 per cent from the same month a year earlier, but the decrease eased somewhat because of a slight recovery in global demand, the Economics Ministry said Thursday. The island received orders worth 23.94 billion US dollars in March, a fall of 18.99 per cent from February and an improved figure from the record contraction of 41.67 per cent registered in January, the ministry said in a statement.
Taipei - Dutch insurer Aegon NV is to sell its Taiwanese life insurance unit to local investors to boost its cash flow, local media reported Thursday.
Taipei - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday urged the United States to sell more modern weapons systems to Taiwan to maintain the military balance across the Taiwan Strait.
Taipei - Taiwan's jobless rate rose to a record high of 5.81 per cent in March as it increased for the 15th-consecutive month while sharply reduced global demand battered the local manufacturing industry, a government agency said Wednesday.
