Taipei- Taiwan on Saturday relaxed restrictions on visits by Chinese tour groups as part of its effort to boost its slow- growing tourism industry.
Starting Sunday, Chinese citizens will only need to show a permit from their working units - instead of proof of bank savings as is currently required - when they apply to visit Taiwan, the Tourism Bureau said in a statement.
Taipei- Two maintenance cars collided during test runs on Taiwan's high-speed rail system on Saturday, leaving eight Taiwan engineers and two German engineers injured, one seriously.
The crash occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning at Yanchao, Kaohsiung County, south Taiwan, when the two maintenance cars were undergoing tests before their formal delivery to the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation.
The two German-made cars running on opposite lines collided, leaving a total of 10 engineers in both cars with multiple injuries.
Taipei- Having failed to reach its target of receiving 4 million foreign visitors in 2008, Taiwan plans to reach that target by the end of 2009, an official said Friday.
In 2008, Taiwan received 3.84 million foreign visitors.
Of the total, 1.77 million were tourists, up 7.69 per cent from 2007, while 881,431 were business visitors, down 5.3 per cent from 2007, Janice Lai, director of the Tourism Bureau, said.
Taipei - A spokesman for Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday that nothing from the current government had been stolen and leaked to China by an employee in the presidential office.
Prosecutors detained Wang Jen-ping and former parliament aide Chen Pin-jen early Thursday following questioning over their alleged roles in selling state secrets to China.
"As far as we know, the allegations happened before the handover of power to President Ma, not after he took office on May 20," said spokesman Wang Yu-chi.
Taipei- The Taipei Zoo will limit 22,000 visitors per day to view two giant pandas sent as a goodwill gift to the island from China, a spokesman said Wednesday.
"We have decided to set the limit to avoid overcrowding and too much disturbance to the pandas when they go on public display beginning from January 26, the first day of the lunar Chinese New Year," said Jason Chin, spokesman of the Taipei Zoo.
He said each visitor must get a number tag before he or she can visit the Panda House and each will only be allowed to stay at the venue for no more than 10 minutes.
Taipei- Taiwan on Saturday relaxed restrictions on visits by Chinese tour groups as part of its effort to boost its slow- growing tourism industry.
Taipei- Two maintenance cars collided during test runs on Taiwan's high-speed rail system on Saturday, leaving eight Taiwan engineers and two German engineers injured, one seriously.
Taipei- Having failed to reach its target of receiving 4 million foreign visitors in 2008, Taiwan plans to reach that target by the end of 2009, an official said Friday.
Taipei - A spokesman for Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday that nothing from the current government had been stolen and leaked to China by an employee in the presidential office.
Taipei- The Taipei Zoo will limit 22,000 visitors per day to view two giant pandas sent as a goodwill gift to the island from China, a spokesman said Wednesday.
