Beijing venerates Mao Zedong; Taiwan is trying to forget its former leader. Cindy Sui - born under Mao but now living in Taiwan - on why they're getting such different treatment. Photo: Statues of the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek at a park in Taiwan. ( read original story ...)
Taipei bans sale of plastic shopping bags in select locations
Taipei, Dec. 22 (CNA) Taipei is rolling out a new ban at the beginning of next year that forbids the sale of plastic shopping bags at hypermarkets, supermarkets, and convenience stores. Lu Shih-chang (盧世昌), the deputy commissioner of Taipei's ... ( read original story ...)
Pop divas to be part of Taipei 101 New Year LED display
Michael Liu (劉家豪), spokesman for Taipei Financial Center Corp. which operates the landmark building, said A-mei and Anna have pre-recorded their performances and when the firework display starts, the T-Pad will feature virtual animations of the two ... ( read original story ...)
Experience the World’s Best VR Artwork in Taipei
The acclaimed American artist Laurie Anderson and Taiwanese new media artist Hsin-Chien Huang have joined forces to create La Camera Insabbiata, an eight-room VR experience at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) that recently won Best VR Experience Award at the ... ( read original story ...)
Taiwan Suspects Pro-China Party of Passing Information to Beijing
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan is investigating four members of a small political party that advocates unification with China, on the suspicion that they gave Chinese officials classified information related to an espionage case. Beijing said it was watching ... ( read original story ...)
FDA introduces guidelines for shutting down food product businesses
Taipei, Dec. 21 (CNA) Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration ... an immediate order for a company to temporarily close can be issued if a business is found to have made NT$10 million (US$333,000) from selling products that violate the law or if those ... ( read original story ...)
Taipei metro to run 42 hours non-stop over New Year
Taipei, Dec. 21 (CNA) The Taipei metro will run for 42 hours non-stop from Dec. 31 to provide transport for the huge crowds expected to attend the city's New Year's Eve countdown party and fireworks display, the Taipei Rapid Transit Corp. (TRTC) said Thursday. ( read original story ...)
BRIEF-Taiwan Central Bank Sees Current Inflationary Pressures And Future Outlook As Very Stable – C.Bank Governor
* TAIWAN CENTRAL BANK SEES CURRENT INFLATIONARY PRESSURES AND FUTURE OUTLOOK AS VERY STABLE - C.BANK GOVERNOR Source text for Eikon: bit.ly/2BUYb2A (Reporting by Jess Macy Yu and Liang-sa Loh) Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. ( read original story ...)
China sentences 44 Taiwanese to prison for telecom fraud
Taipei has in the past accused Beijing of "abducting" Taiwanese ... "We insist that Taiwanese suspects involved in cross-border telecom fraud cases should return to Taiwan to face investigation, trial and serve the sentence according to the law," he ... ( read original story ...)
Didi Chuxing Revs Engine for Taiwan
China’s largest ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing is expanding into Taiwan, months after rival Uber quit then re-entered the market. Didi has awarded local company Ledi Technology Co. the exclusive rights to promote and use the Didi brand and platform in ... ( read original story ...)
China Airlines brings Airbus A350s to Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland
with Auckland-Brisbane-Taipei flights naturally being served by the A350 from the same date. China Airlines’ A350s sport 32 business class seats in a 1-2-1 configuration – based on the same design as Virgin Australia’s Boeing 777 The Business seats ... ( read original story ...)
China sentences 13 Taiwanese nationals for telecom fraud
China sentenced 13 Taiwanese to prison on Thursday for telecom fraud following their extradition from ... Taiwanese arrested abroad have become a sensitive diplomatic issue, with Taipei protesting that suspects should be returned to the self-ruled island ... ( read original story ...)
China jails 22 Taiwanese for telecoms fraud, Taiwan says evidence ignored
BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - A Beijing court on Thursday handed down jail sentences of up to 15 years to 50 people deported from Kenya for telecoms fraud, including 22 from self-ruled Taiwan. Taiwan’s government criticized the case, saying China had ... ( read original story ...)
China jails 13 Taiwanese for telecoms fraud
Over the past two years countries including Kenya, Spain, Vietnam and Cambodia have deported hundreds of people from Taiwan to China for telecoms fraud, sparking accusations from Taipei that Beijing ... contain an explosion of telecom crime it says has ... ( read original story ...)
A 25-year-old entrepreneur from Jamaica set up his own business in Taiwan with the special entrepreneur visa
About the expectation of the entrepreneurial environment in Taiwan in the future, being in Taipei for only 2 months, Ruchmair said that he is still learning the attitudes and behaviors that people have a business here as well as figuring out what ... ( read original story ...)
YouTube co-founder still sees opportunities in Taiwan’s technology sector
GROWING up in Taipei during the Taiwan economic miracle, Steve Chen saw first-hand how ideas could be brought to life with hard work and determination. As the co-founder and former chief technology officer of YouTube, Chen played a significant role in ... ( read original story ...)