Taipei - In an effort to promote its cuisine to the world, Taiwan has invited the French Michelin Company to issue the Michelin Restaurant Guide for Taiwan, a newspaper said on Sunday.
The Government Information Office has reached a consensus with the Michelin Company to issue the guide for Taiwan, hopefully by 2012, the United Daily News said.
The government plans to spend 5 million Taiwan dollars (150,000 US dollars) to promote the project, Peng Pang-tuo, head of GIO's Department of International Information told the newspaper.
Taipei - Taiwan plans to allow its government officials, military personnel and state enterprise executives to visit China in view of eased cross-strait tension, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The China Times quoted Premier Liu Chao-shiuan as saying that Taipei will soon lift the ban on officials, state enterprise executives and military personnel visiting China.
Taipei - Taiwan has decided to stage its major war games every other year instead of holding them annually, a senior military official said Thursday amid a thaw in previously hostile relations with China.
"Because the cycle of the live-fire Hankuang Exercises is too short, making it difficult for the military to have adequate time to correct and adjust shortcomings found in each drill, we have decided to hold the series of drills every other year instead of annually," Defence Minister Chen Chao-min said at a legislative session in Taipei.
Taipei - A Taiwan man who peeped at a neighbour changing her clothes and complained to her that her breasts were too small has been indicted, a newspaper said Thursday.
Police alleged that the man, identified only by his surname Liao, had spied for two years on his neighbour Liu, 30, who lived in an apartment 5 metres from his balcony, to the United Daily News said.
Police said that on July 29, Liao stole a letter from Liu's mailbox, opened it and wrote on the back: "You are very graceful when you take off your clothes, but your breasts are too small. I hope you can wear less or wear nothing at all when you are at home. I have been watching you for a long time, so you don't need to be shy."
Taipei - Taiwan plans to apply for world heritage status for the complex Chinese characters that China stopped using after 1949 but Taiwan continues to use today, a newspaper said Thursday.
Taiwan plans to set up a task force in February to prepare for making the application to UNESCO, the United Daily News quoted Premier Liu Chao-Shiuan as saying.
It was not clear whether Taiwan's not being a member of the United Nations would hinder the effort, but Taiwan's government does not believe China would oppose the move because the complex characters are part of the Chinese heritage, the News said.
Taipei - In an effort to promote its cuisine to the world, Taiwan has invited the French Michelin Company to issue the Michelin Restaurant Guide for Taiwan, a newspaper said on Sunday.
Taipei - Taiwan plans to allow its government officials, military personnel and state enterprise executives to visit China in view of eased cross-strait tension, a newspaper reported Saturday.
Taipei - Forty years ago, then-president Chiang Kai-shek called on Taiwan's people to fight communism and recover mainland China.
Taipei - Taiwan has decided to stage its major war games every other year instead of holding them annually, a senior military official said Thursday amid a thaw in previously hostile relations with China.
