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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's economy contracted at a slower pace year-on-year in the third quarter and the government raised its growth forecast for 2010 as rising demand from mainland China spurs a recovery.
Taipei - Two Chinese actors on Saturday won awards at Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Festival, dubbed as the Oscar awards for Chinese-language films around the world. Yu Shaoqun, who portrayed Peking opera singer Mei Lanfang in Forever Enthralled (Mei La...
Baghdad - Iraq's government should intervene to settle the country's football crisis, the country's national team coach said Saturday. The prime minister should personally intervene to bring all the different parties to the negotiating table and rea...
nadiskafadi writes "Taiwanese researchers have shown off several flexible display technologies in an endeavor to promote e-readers and e-paper. One of the newest technologies from the Industrial Technology Research Institute was a flexible 4.1-inch color OLED (organic light emitting diode) display, which it claims is for the next era of portable devices." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Paul_In_Houston What I find interesting... 11/27/2009 2:32:58 PM ...is the dog that ain't barking. If Taiwan is truly determined to NOT knuckle under and eventually be absorbed by the mainland, it would seem that nukes HAVE to be under consideration.
In case you missed them, here are the top 10 Personal Finance stories from MarketWatch for the week of Nov. 23-27:
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November 28, 2009: Chinese and Taiwanese businessmen want closer economic ties between the two countries. But Taiwanese politicians want China to remove some of the weapons (especially over a thousand ballistic missiles aimed at the island) massed on the coast opposite Taiwan.
With the 802.11n wireless networking standard ratified this fall, channel partners have an opportunity to increase their sales by helping customers refresh their wireless networking equipment, says an Info-Tech Research Group analyst.
HONG KONG - An Australia-based director's romance, a Taiwanese family drama and the story of a Chinese peasant guarding a cow are the unlikely trio of top contenders at the Chinese-language equivalent of the Oscars to be announced today.
Manila - Congressman Ferdinand Marcos Junior, son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, on Saturday filed his certificate of candidacy for senator in next year's elections. It will be the second attempt of a Marcos scion to seek a national post sinc...
Sydney - Giant pandas Wang Wang and Funi, on loan to Australia from China, were munching on bamboo at Adelaide Zoo on Saturday after their arrival of a chartered jet. A crowd of more than 100 was on hand to cheer their safe arrival after a 12-hour fl...
Taipei - A Taiwan man was turned over for prosecution Saturday after hiring two men to chop off his hand in order to claim insurance worth 24 million Taiwan dollars (730,000 US dollars). Chiang Chi-wei, 38, told police on November 8 that he had been ...
Dhaka - At least 17 holidaymakers were killed in a ferry accident in Bangladesh's southern Bhola district early Saturday, officials said. Rescuers retrieved 17 bodies in Tentulia river near Nazirpur, some 150 kilometres south of capital Dhaka. Deputy...
Windhoek - A second day of voting began Saturday in Namibia's joint presidential and parliamentary elections, which observers say are likely to see victory for the incumbent South West African People's Organization (SWAPO). Just under one million Nam...
Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Asian currencies fell, led by the South Korean won and Indian rupee, as emerging markets took a beating after Dubai sought to delay debt payments, bolstering demand for safety in U.S. Treasuries and the dollar.
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