Sydney - Taiwan's Clare Wang was Wednesday destined to join 10 others in the running for the highly paid dream job of caretaker on a paradise island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
When voting for the wildcard entry closed, the Taipei-based interpreter had garnered 151,637 votes - almost three times the tally of her nearest rival.
The 10 other contestants picked by Tourism Australia to audition for the six-month stint on Hamilton Island will be announced April 2. Wang is almost certain to make up a shortlist of 11 from which the final selection will be made.
Taipei - Taiwan posted s slump of 22 per cent in export orders in February for the fifth straight month, as deteriorating economic conditions further eroded overseas demand, the Economics Ministry said Tuesday.
In February, the island received orders worth 20.12 billion US dollars, down 22.27 per cent year-on-year, but a marked increase from a record contraction of 41.67 per cent registered in January, the ministry said in a statement.
Taipei - Taiwan's stocks ended 2.3 per cent higher Tuesday, bolstered by Wall Street's overnight rally, dealers said.
The main TAIEX stock index opened higher and extended its upward trend to close at 5,242.18 points, up 118 points or 2.3 per cent from Monday's trade.
Dealers said the US government's announcement of its plan to absorb bad debts of major US banks brought forth a bullish sentiment in the local stock market, igniting strong buying in the financial and construction sectors.
Taipei - The number of foreigners visiting Taiwan fell more than 5 per cent in January and February, but the number of Chinese tourists surged more than 100 per cent, the Tourism Bureau said Tuesday.
In the first two months of the year, 580,196 foreigners as well as people from China, Hong Kong and Macau visited Taiwan, down 5.29 per cent from the same period a year earlier, the bureau said.
Two-thirds of those visitors were tourists while one-third were business travellers.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police have detained four Taiwan men and seized more than 430 kilograms of drugs worth 61.3 million ringgit (16.5 million dollars) in the country's biggest seizure of the hypnotic drug Nimetazepam, a news report said Tuesday.
Police also detained six locals in Sunday's pre-dawn raid on a factory in the southern Johor state, said federal narcotics chief Zulhasnan Najib Baharuddin.
Taipei - Taiwan's jobless rate skyrocketed to 5.75 per cent to a record high in February, as sharply reduced global demand seriously battered the local manufacturing industry, a government agency said Monday.
Some 624,000 Taiwanese were officially classified as out of work, 46,000 more than in January, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said in a press statement.
Sydney - Taiwan's Clare Wang was Wednesday destined to join 10 others in the running for the highly paid dream job of caretaker on a paradise island in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Taipei - Taiwan posted s slump of 22 per cent in export orders in February for the fifth straight month, as deteriorating economic conditions further eroded overseas demand, the Economics Ministry said Tuesday.
Taipei - Taiwan's stocks ended 2.3 per cent higher Tuesday, bolstered by Wall Street's overnight rally, dealers said.
Taipei - The number of foreigners visiting Taiwan fell more than 5 per cent in January and February, but the number of Chinese tourists surged more than 100 per cent, the Tourism Bureau said Tuesday.
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police have detained four Taiwan men and seized more than 430 kilograms of drugs worth 61.3 million ringgit (16.5 million dollars) in the country's biggest seizure of the hypnotic drug Nimetazepam, a news report said Tuesday.
Taipei - Taiwan's jobless rate skyrocketed to 5.75 per cent to a record high in February, as sharply reduced global demand seriously battered the local manufacturing industry, a government agency said Monday.
