Taipei - Taiwan's top negotiator Chiang Pin-kung travelled to Nanjing, China Saturday for talks in Beijing on economic and judicial cooperation across the Taiwan Strait. "During the talks, we will stick to the interests of Taiwan and its public, and sign three agreements on joint efforts to fight crime, financial cooperation and regular flight service," Chiang said before the trip.
The two sides would also issue a joint statement on Chinese investment in Taiwan, he said.
Taipei - At least two Chinese tourists were killed and four others injured Friday in Taipei when a crane from 37th floor of a building construction site fell on their tour bus, the city mayor said.
"The accident occurred when the tour bus with 25 passengers from the Chinese province of Guangdong drove near the construction site," said Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin.
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- Exiled Chinese dissidents plan to launch a series of activities intended to pressure China to apologize for the June 4, 1989, crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, a Taiwan-based Chinese dissident said Thursday.
Wuer Kaixi, one of the student leaders of the 1989 protests who now lives in Taiwan, said the activities would kick off next week and climax on June 3 or June 4 with a news conference in the US capital.
Taipei- Exiled Chinese dissidents will launch a series of campaigns to demand China to apologize for the 1989 massacre of protestors on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, a Taiwan-based Chinese dissident said Thursday.
The call comes in the run up to the 20th anniversary of the communist government's bloody crackdown on student protestors on June 4, 1989 - whose full death toll has never been established.
Taipei - Taiwan's top negotiator Chiang Pin-kung travelled to Nanjing, China Saturday for talks in Beijing on economic and judicial cooperation across the Taiwan Strait. "During the talks, we will stick to the interests of Taiwan and its public, and sign three agreements on joint efforts to fight crime, financial cooperation and regular flight service," Chiang said before the trip.
Taipei - At least two Chinese tourists were killed and four others injured Friday in Taipei when a crane from 37th floor of a building construction site fell on their tour bus, the city mayor said.
Taipei- Exiled Chinese dissidents plan to launch a series of activities intended to pressure China to apologize for the June 4, 1989, crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, a Taiwan-based Chinese dissident said Thursday.
Taipei- Exiled Chinese dissidents will launch a series of campaigns to demand China to apologize for the 1989 massacre of protestors on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, a Taiwan-based Chinese dissident said Thursday.
