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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 3:05 am ET
Taiwan plans to restrict Chinese stock investment in strategic sectors, as it seeks to keep control of its economy amid rapidly growing ties with the mainland, local media said Monday.
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Space War - Sun Nov 22, 10:50 pm ET
Taipei (AFP) Nov 21, 2009 - Taiwan's Premier Wu Den-yih has urged China to remove missiles targeting the island to pave the way for peace talks between the formal arch-rivals, a report said Saturday.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 23, 3:51 am ET
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan Stock Exchange said the signing of the financial services agreement between the island and China last week will make it “easier” for the bourse to complete its own negotiations with its Shanghai counterpart.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 23, 12:58 am ET
Taipei - A US envoy on Monday assured Taipei that the US position on Taiwan remains unchanged despite President Barack Obama's visit to China. Raymond F Burghardt, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) and the hi...
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Tulane Hullabaloo - Fri Nov 20, 3:52 pm ET
The Tulane Organization for Global Affairs hosted a panel Tuesday night to foster student and faculty discussions about the tensions between China and Taiwan. The panel included Professor Brian DeMare of the history department; Professor Chris Fettweis of the political science department; Professor Chi-Wen Jevons Lee of the A.B. Freeman School of Business; Crystal Wu, a freshman [...]
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Bloomberg - Sun Nov 22, 8:11 pm ET
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan’s government may curb the total amount of shares China’s qualified institutional investors can buy in the island’s financial companies and other industries that concern national security, such as telecommunications and aviation, the Commercial Times reported, without saying where it got theinformation.
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NPR - Tue Nov 17, 4:29 pm ET
Taiwan and China are enjoying their warmest relations in years, with stronger economic ties that have been welcomed by the business community. As President Obama visits Asia, some Taiwanese warn that their country could pay a price for expanding commerce with China.
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Market Watch - Thu Nov 19, 11:21 pm ET
TAIPEI (MarketWatch) -- The consortium led by China Strategic Holdings Ltd. (0235.HK) shouldn't have agreed to sell a stake in Nan Shan Life Insurance Co. to Chinatrust Financial Holding Co. (2891.TW) before its acquisition of Nan Shan receives Taiwan's regulatory approval, Lu Ting-chieh, secretary general of Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission, said Friday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 10:12 pm ET
Supporters of Taiwan in the US Congress pushed for President Barack Obama to move toward selling arms to the island, a step that would likely set back warming US ties with China.
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Nasdaq - Thu Nov 19, 6:02 am ET
TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Taiwan's government has turned down an application by a consortium led by China Strategic Holdings Ltd. (0235.HK) to buy American International Group Inc. (AIG)'s Taiwanese unit because of the lack of some documents, although the Hong Kong-based company said Thursday it plans to resubmit its application to the island's regulators.
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Nasdaq - Thu Nov 19, 4:17 am ET
(Adds comments from China Strategic and AIG.) TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Taiwan's governmentturned down an application by a consortium led by China Strategic Holdings Ltd. (0235.HK) to buy Nan Shan Life Insurance Co., American International Group Inc. (AIG)'s Taiwanese unit, asking for more documents.
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Nasdaq - Thu Nov 19, 2:47 am ET
TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Taiwan will review a plan next month to ease restrictions on investments in China by the island's semiconductor and liquid-crystal-display panel makers, an official from the Ministry of Economic Affairs said Thursday.
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Bloomberg - Tue Nov 17, 5:36 am ET
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan stocks fell and the currency pared earlier gains on concern a financial cooperation agreement with China lacked details and will take months to implement.
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INO News - Fri Nov 20, 4:25 am ET
(RTTNews) - Taiwan's current account surplus quadrupled in the third quarter from the corresponding period in previous year, the Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) said Friday. This was helped by an improvement in all the accounts.
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Marketwire - Wed Nov 18, 12:00 pm ET
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - November 18, 2009) - The Taiwan Greater China Fund ( NYSE : TFC ), a diversified closed-end registered investment company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (the "Fund"), announced today that its ninth semi-annual repurchase offer will be conducted from November 18, 2009 through December 11, 2009. The Fund is offering to repurchase up to 5% of its shares in this ...