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 - Dutch insurer Aegon NV is to sell its Taiwanese life insurance unit to local investors to boost its cash flow, local media reported Thursday.
Aegon said in a statement that it had agreed to transfer its local business to Taipei-based consortium Zhongwei Co for 84.5 million dollars, the Taipei Times reported.
The deal is expected to be completed by the end of third quarter, pending regulatory approval, the company said.
Taipei - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday urged the United States to sell more modern weapons systems to Taiwan to maintain the military balance across the Taiwan Strait.
Ma made the call during a video conference with US academics to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Washington's signing the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA).
Taipei - Taiwan's jobless rate rose to a record high of 5.81 per cent in March as it increased for the 15th-consecutive month while sharply reduced global demand battered the local manufacturing industry, a government agency said Wednesday.
About 630,000 people were classified as out of work, 6,000 more than in February, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics said in a statement.
Taipei - The Taiwan High Court has ordered an insurance company to pay out an accidental-death policy on a man whose family claimed he was scared to death by a burglar, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
The Apple Daily said that the Taiwan High Court ruled Tuesday in the first case of its kind that the Cathay Life Insurance Co Ltd must pay 1 million Taiwan dollars (290,000 US dollars) to the family of Pan Hsu-ming, who died of apparently fright three years ago.
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.
Taipei - Dutch insurer Aegon NV is to sell its Taiwanese life insurance unit to local investors to boost its cash flow, local media reported Thursday.
Taipei - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday urged the United States to sell more modern weapons systems to Taiwan to maintain the military balance across the Taiwan Strait.
Taipei - Taiwan's jobless rate rose to a record high of 5.81 per cent in March as it increased for the 15th-consecutive month while sharply reduced global demand battered the local manufacturing industry, a government agency said Wednesday.
Taipei - The Taiwan High Court has ordered an insurance company to pay out an accidental-death policy on a man whose family claimed he was scared to death by a burglar, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
