President Chen Shui-bian (right) receives U.S. Representatives Solomon
Ortiz (center) and Steve Chabot (left) at the Presidential Office
Wednesday. Ortiz arrived here Jan. 5 for a six-day visit while Chabot
arrived here Jan. 8 for a four-day visit.
CNA photo, Jan. 9, 2008
Taipei, Feb. 8 (CNA) The upcoming Year of the Tiger will present both challenges and opportunities for negotiations on a proposed cross-Taiwan Strait trade pact that Taiwan hopes to ink with the consensus of the public, Taiwan's top China affairs negotiators said Monday.
Taipei, Feb. 8 (CNA) Taiwan's exports to China totaled US$9.54 billion in January, setting a 17-month high, and could exceed US$10 billion in a single month later this year, the Ministry of Finance said Monday.
Taipei, Feb. 8 (CNA) Premier Wu Den-yih said Monday that the government will invite authoritative foreign groups to further investigate and identify what caused the mudslides that buried almost 500 people alive in a southern Taiwan village last August.
Taipei, Feb. 8 (CNA) Much to the jubilation of domestic filmmakers, the Taiwan-produced crime movie "Monga" grossed more at the box office on its first day Friday than the Hollywood blockbuster "Avatar," market sources said Monday.
Taipei, Feb. 5 (CNA) Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen on Friday presented scholarship money to 133 students in the southern county of Pingtung who were affected by the severe flooding triggered by Typhoon Morakot last August.
The bodies of three of 15 persons aboard seven cars that washed away in a torrential river on August 9 have been found drifting in seas 150 miles away over the last two days, Nantou police said yesterday. < Full Story >
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