A delegation led by Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) chairman will leave for Chongqing Monday for a new round of cross-Strait talks.
A delegation led by Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) chairman Chiang Pin-kung will arrive at Chongqing on Monday for the fifth round of talks with the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS).
A magnitude-5.2 earthquake hit Taiwan's Ilan county at 2:05 a.m. Sunday (Beijing Time), local earthquake monitoring center reported.
Prosecutors on Friday appealed to Taiwan's High Court following the corruption cases of ex-leader Chen Shui-bian and his family, saying the verdict for the second hearing didn't match their crimes.
Taiwan's reserve bank imposed a restrictive measure on housing loans from Friday in a bid to curb housing speculation in Taipei, while raising the interest rate for the island.
The Chinese mainland and Taiwan will sign a landmark trade deal next Tuesday, cutting import tariffs on hundreds of items and providing a major boost of about $100 billion annually in two-way trade.
The fifth round of talks between the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and Taiwan counterpart Straits Exchange Foundation will be held in Chongqing, on June 29.
Taiwan-funded firms on the Chinese mainland are likely to relocate from the mainland's coastal regions to its interior, or even to other Asian countries, in the wake of rising labor costs on the mainland, experts said here Tuesday.
The Chinese mainland's aviation authorities are pushing to open an air route cutting straight across the Taiwan Strait, the shortest, and most controversial, route linking the mainland and Taiwan, officials said.
The total number of mainland tourists to Taiwan from January to May has reached 526,000, and is estimated to top 1 million by the end of this year, Wang Yi, head of the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office said Monday, chinanews.com reported.
Living in Taipei, 24-year-old Lin Chin-yen's social life largely relies on the Internet, especially when reaching friends on the other side of the Taiwan Strait.
The Chinese mainland and Taiwan have come closer to signing a comprehensive economic pact as "substantial progress" has been made in negotiations, the mainland's chief Taiwan affairs official said on Sunday.
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