By Lauly Li / Staff reporterThe government will not “directly” resume talks with China over a cross-strait trade in goods agreement until a supervisor
‘POLITICAL SCAMS’: CUPP Chairman Chang An-le has called on president-elect Tsai Ing-wen to definitely say if her party wants independence, rather than
Eleven giant pyres of tusks were set alight Saturday as Kenya torched its vast ivory stockpile in a grand gesture aimed at shocking the world into sto
By Abraham Gerber and Loa Iok-sin / Staff reportersMinister of education-designate Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠) should set a firm timeline for withdrawing cont
WHAT AGREEMENT? Chen Deming said negotiations on a trade in goods agreement have been completed, but a Taiwanese official said that ‘no progress’ has
/ AFP, AUCKLAND, New ZealandThe biggest trade deal in history was signed yesterday, yoking 12 Pacific rim countries in a US-led initiative aimed at wr
MATERNAL THEME: A large statue of a pregnant woman occupied the main stage during the rally, while statues of children and young adults were placed on
By Chen Wei-han / Staff reporterThe Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) yesterday led about 100 farmers in a rally in front of the Council of Agriculture’s
HE SAID, SHE SAID: The first televised presidential debate saw Chu and Tsai banter over stalled talks and travel details, while Soong said he had been
HIDDEN MOTIVE: Some academics said the move, which will allow businesses from 24 industries to operate in most of China, is a strategy to drain Taiwan
‘SMOKE AND MIRRORS’: Letting Chinese investors to buy stocks on the local bourse is the first step toward larger concessions, a union member said
By Lauly Li / Staff reporterThe Ministry of Economic Affairs yesterday said that 136 Taiwanese products included in the WTO’s expanded tariff-reductio
By Abraham Gerber / Staff reporterChina’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) Chairman Chen Deming’s (陳德銘) tour of the nation
CAUTIOUS: The planned regulations are to include certain rules to prevent local IC designers from moving their operations to China, the minister of ec
‘OUT OF WHACK’: Activists said Taiwan is dependent on China for a disproportionate 40 percent of its trade, and the focus should be on domestic compet
SHOW OF DEFIANCE: Roads in Taipei were blocked off yesterday afternoon as protesters weaved along a 3km route that led them to the Presidential Office
CALL FOR ACTION: Rights activists from a number of groups said they would take part in a march in Taipei and host a political forum late in the evenin
By Abraham Gerber / Staff reporterThe cross-strait trade in goods agreement talks should be halted, as the deal would harm the interests of workers an
NO ‘ONE CHINA’? MAC Minister Andrew Hsia said that KMT presidential candidate Eric Chu’s campaign slogan has meanings such as solidarity among Taiwane
徐承恩續上篇香港在主權移交後,即接連遇上禽流感、亞太金融風暴及非典型肺炎疫潮等危機。特區政府的表現差強人意,使其陷入認受性危機。可是董建華的特區政府卻無視民怨,企圖於2003年強推關乎國家安全的廿三條立法。輿論普遍質疑該法案將損害香港人既有言論及結社自由。