Taipei  - The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker, is expected to announce that it has won an import contract from Intel Corp, a Taiwan newspaper reported.

According to the United Daily News, TSMC has won an Intel contract to supply mobile Internet device (MID) and the Intel Atom processors to Intel.

Intel and TSMC are scheduled to announce a "strategic alliance" in a joint news conference at 1700 GMT in Santa Clara, California, the paper quoted an unnamed industry source as saying.

Taipei  - The curator of the Beijing Palace Museum arrived in Taiwan Sunday for a cultural exchange, highlighting China's battle to recover its ancient treasures seized by foreign countries.

Zheng Xinmiao, director of the Beijing Palace Museum, is leading a ten-member delegation to visit the National Palace Museum of Taipei, which holds 650,000 pieces of art brought to Taiwan by the Chinese Nationalist government when it lost the Chinese Civil War and fled to Taiwan to set up its government-in-exile in 1949.

Zheng said his visit is to promote exchanges with Taiwan's National Palace Museum, which were agreed upon when National Palace Museum Director Chou Kung-shin visited the Beijing Palace Museum last month.

Kaohsiung, Taiwan/Taipei  - Dozens of Taiwan pro-independence activists Saturday disrupted a speech by President Ma Ying-jeou at a memorial ceremony for victims killed in a a 1947 massacre.

"Step down, Ma Ying-jeou," "Ma Ying-jeou, persecutor" and "Long live Taiwan," the activists shouted, unfurling protest banners at various spots of the ceremony venue at a park in the southern city of Kaohsiung.

Taipei - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou Friday urged the public to support the signing of an economic cooperation pact with China before it is too late.

"If we don't do it today, we will regret it tomorrow," he said in an interview with local cable news network ERA TV.

He said Taiwan would stand to lose 114,000 jobs after the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN countries set up a free trade zone with China, Japan and South Korea as early as 2010.

Taipei - Taiwan's cabinet has approved a draft bill to allow email recipients to make claims of up to 2,000 Taiwan dollars (57 US dollars) per mail in compensation from the senders of spam email, the Government Information Office said Friday.

The bill, which still needs parliament approval, requires the senders to stop sending commercial email to recipients if their first mail does not get a response, the agency said in a statement.

Taipei - China's Shanghai Museum will offer two enamel porcelains from the era of Emperor Yongzheng (1678-1735) of the Qing Dynasty to Taiwan, the museum curator said in Taipei Thursday.

"We plan to send two enamel ceramics with colored paintings from Yongzheng era for an exhibition in Taipei in October," said Chen Xiejun, curator of the Shanghai museum.

Taipei's National Palace Museum asked its mainland counterpart, the Palace Museum in Beijing, to loan it 29 pieces of scroll paintings and official documents of the Yongzheng period for exhibition in October.