Taiwan News

These are companies in vastly different industries, from ketchup to mall haunt, from high-tech to oilfield services. A healthy cross-section of sectors is still smarting these days...The9 was growing quickly in China's booming online-gaming industry until it lost a major...

Taipei, Nov. 20 (CNA) President Ma Ying-jeou said Friday that he hopes for religious exchanges with China when he received a special envoy from Pope Benedict XVI. Jozef Cardinal Tomko, who arrived here Nov. 18, was in Taiwan to attend...

On Thursday Brazil, which surprised the markets a month ago by imposing a 2 per cent tax on the inflow of money destined for financial assets, said it would further tighten those restrictions. The finance ministry imposed a new 1.5...

Taiwan's economics ministry denied a newspaper report that it rejected an application submitted by a group led by Primus Financial Holdings Ltd. to buy the local unit of American International Group Inc. The ministry on Nov. 13 asked for additional...

Mainland to push normalization of economic relations with Taiwan XI'AN�A Chinese mainland official on Taiwan affairs said here Thursday that the mainland would work actively for "normalization" of economic relations with Taiwan...The results show that signing the agreement would produce...

From Nov. 30, Taiwanese passport holders traveling to New Zealand for less than three months on business, as tourists, to visit friends or relatives or for short-term study, will no longer be required to apply for a visa before they...

The news that a Hong Kong-based financial group reportedly sold 30 percent of its recently acquired stake in Nan Shan Life Insurance Co., Ltd. to Chinatrust Financial Holding would complicate a government review, a Cabinet official said Wednesday.

US President Barack Obama ended his state visit to China with a call for fresh talks between Beijing and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. The US and China also agreed to disagree on Iran, the world economy...